Laker Vent Engineering Limited
Registered name: LAKER VENT ENGINEERING LIMITED
Part of UK Groupe M Ltd groupLaker Vent Engineering Limited made £26.4m revenue and £1m profit in the year to 29 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Laker Vent Engineering Limited’s revenue grew 23% to £26.4m in the year to 29 Mar 2025, with £1m profit and 182 employees. The company is classified under “other specialised construction activities” and is based in Ellesmere Port; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Ellesmere Port, North West
- Age
- 40 yrs · since 1986
- 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: “At 29 March 2025, the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of LV Engineering Limited. LV Engineering Limited is a company incorporated in England and Wales, company number 06993145. LV Engineering Lim”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 1 Apr 2023 | 30 Mar 2024 | 29 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £17.3m | £21.5m | £26.4m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £1.6m | £1.3m |
| Profit before tax | £1.2m | £1.6m | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | £992k | £1.2m | £1m |
| Profit (best available) | £992k | £1.2m | £1m |
| Employees (average) | 173 | 181 | 182 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 5.7% | 5.4% | 3.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £100k | £119k | £145k |
| Profit per employee | £5.7k | £6.4k | £5.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲24% | ▲22.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲16.2% | ▼11% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲4.6% | ▲0.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.9m | £2.3m | £3.3m |
| Net assets | £2.7m | £3.2m | £4m |
| Fixed assets | £704k | £348k | £276k |
| Current assets | £4.9m | £7.6m | £7.6m |
| Debtors | £2.5m | £5m | £2.3m |
| Deferred income | £348k | £450k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £145k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 8.9%
- 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
- ▲27%
- Now £4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲45%
- Now £3.3m
- Headcount
- ▲1%
- Now 182
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼21%
- Now £276k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- UK Groupe M Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Laker Vent Engineering 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 FullAccounts for the year to 29 Mar 2025 (profit £1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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