Valbruna UK Limited
Registered name: VALBRUNA UK LIMITED
Part of Acciaierie Valbruna Spa groupValbruna UK Limited made £22.9m revenue and £779k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Valbruna UK Limited’s revenue fell 13% to £22.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £779k profit and 39 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of metals and metal ores” and is based in West Midlands; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- West Midlands, West Midlands
- 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: “The immediate and ultimate parent company is Acciaierie Valbruna s.p.a , a company incorporated in Italy. Copies of its consolidated financial statements are publicly available and can be requested fr”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £29m | £26.5m | £22.9m |
| Cost of sales | £21.5m | £21.1m | £19m |
| Gross profit | £7.5m | £5.4m | £3.9m |
| Operating profit | £4.8m | £2.7m | £1m |
| Profit before tax | £4.8m | £2.7m | £1m |
| Profit after tax | £3.6m | £2m | £779k |
| Profit (best available) | £3.6m | £2m | £779k |
| Staff costs | £1.3m | £1.4m | £1.4m |
| Employees (average) | 40 | 39 | 39 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 12.5% | 7.5% | 3.4% |
| Gross margin | 25.7% | 20.2% | 17.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £724k | £678k | £587k |
| Profit per employee | £90.7k | £50.7k | £20k |
| Cash conversion | 26.1% | 22.1% | −0.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼8.7% | ▼13.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼45.5% | ▼60.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼2.5% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.2m | £1.3m | £719k |
| Net assets | £22.9m | £25m | £25.8m |
| Fixed assets | £3.5m | £4m | £4.3m |
| Current assets | £21.5m | £26.4m | £27.2m |
| Debtors | £5.3m | £4.8m | £4.6m |
| Deferred income | £40.3k | £19.6k | £58k |
| Cash from operations | £1.3m | £606k | −£2.6k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 17.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £587k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £20k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −0.3%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 18.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 20.2%
- 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
- ▲3%
- Now £25.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼43%
- Now £719k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 39
- Deferred income
- ▲196%
- Now £58k
- Fixed assets
- ▲7%
- Now £4.3m
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
- Acciaierie Valbruna Spa (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Valbruna UK 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit £779k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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