Campbell Scientific Limited
Registered name: CAMPBELL SCIENTIFIC LIMITED
Part of Campbell,Scientific Inc. groupCampbell Scientific Limited made £25.2m revenue and £2.7m profit in the year to 31 Aug 2025.
Campbell Scientific Limited’s revenue grew 5% to £25.2m in the year to 31 Aug 2025, with £2.7m profit and 125 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of electronic measuring, testing etc. equipment, not for industrial process control” and is based in Loughborough; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Loughborough, East Midlands
- Age
- 41 yrs · since 1985
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Aug 2022 | 31 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £20.3m | £25.4m | £24.1m | £25.2m |
| Cost of sales | £10.5m | £13.3m | −£12m | −£13.6m |
| Gross profit | £9.7m | £12.1m | £12.1m | £11.6m |
| Operating profit | £4.1m | £3.9m | £3.9m | £3.2m |
| Profit before tax | £4.2m | £4.1m | £4.3m | £3.7m |
| Profit after tax | £3.7m | £3.4m | £3.7m | £2.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.7m | £3.4m | £3.7m | £2.7m |
| Employees (average) | 92 | 95 | 127 | 125 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 18.3% | 13.3% | 15.3% | 10.8% |
| Gross margin | 48% | 47.7% | 50.2% | 46.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £220k | £268k | £189k | £201k |
| Profit per employee | £40.4k | £35.5k | £28.9k | £21.8k |
| Cash conversion | −39.6% | −62.9% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲25.4% | ▼5.4% | ▲4.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼9.3% | ▲8.9% | ▼25.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.3% | ▲33.7% | ▼1.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.9m | £2.2m | — | — |
| Net assets | £22.7m | £25.6m | — | — |
| Fixed assets | £8m | £7.9m | — | — |
| Current assets | £16.7m | £20.2m | — | — |
| Debtors | £1.6m | £3m | — | — |
| Deferred income | £506k | £381k | — | — |
| Cash from operations | −£1.6m | −£2.5m | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 10.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 46.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £201k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £21.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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 —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 125
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Campbell,Scientific Inc. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Campbell Scientific Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Aug 2025 (profit £2.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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