Hemsec Manufacturing Limited
Registered name: HEMSEC MANUFACTURING LIMITED
Part of C.hemmings & Co. Limited groupHemsec Manufacturing Limited made £12.5m revenue and a £91.9k loss in the year to 30 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Hemsec Manufacturing Limited’s revenue was £12.5m in the year to 30 Dec 2024, with a loss of £91.9k and 48 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Liverpool; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Liverpool, North West
- Age
- 41 yrs · since 1984
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “The ultimate parent company is C.Hemmings & Co. Limited, the registered office of which”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 30 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.4m | £17.3m | £12.5m |
| Cost of sales | £10.5m | £13.5m | £9.3m |
| Gross profit | £2.9m | £3.8m | £3.2m |
| Operating profit | £402k | −£459k | −£25.9k |
| Profit before tax | £378k | −£535k | −£138k |
| Profit after tax | £284k | −£366k | −£91.9k |
| Profit (best available) | £284k | −£366k | −£91.9k |
| Staff costs | £2m | £2.9m | £2.3m |
| Employees (average) | 49 | 49 | 48 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 2.1% | −2.1% | −0.7% |
| Gross margin | 21.6% | 22% | 25.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £273k | £354k | £261k |
| Profit per employee | £5.8k | −£7.5k | −£1.9k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2.1m | £725k | £733k |
| Net assets | £3.1m | £2.7m | £2.6m |
| Fixed assets | £278k | £1.7m | £1.6m |
| Current assets | £7m | £5.3m | £6.5m |
| Debtors | £2.4m | £1.5m | £1.7m |
| Deferred income | £11.5k | £0 | £231k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £261k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£1.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 13%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.3%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now £2.6m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £733k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 48
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £231k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £1.6m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- C.hemmings & Co. Limitedultimate parent50–75%
- Hemsec Manufacturing Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Hemsec Sips LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Dec 2024 (profit −£91.9k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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