Dispak Limited
Registered name: DISPAK LIMITED
Part of Dispak Group Limited groupDispak Limited made £13.9m revenue and £343k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Dispak Limited’s revenue grew 4% to £13.9m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £343k profit and 25 employees. The company is classified under “packaging activities” and is based in Calne; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Calne, South 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £12.4m | £13.4m | £13.9m |
| Cost of sales | — | £9.2m | £10m | £11.1m |
| Gross profit | — | £3.1m | £3.4m | £2.9m |
| Operating profit | — | £853k | £1.3m | £442k |
| Profit before tax | — | £857k | £1.3m | £468k |
| Profit after tax | — | £660k | £968k | £343k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £660k | £968k | £343k |
| Staff costs | — | £922k | £947k | £983k |
| Employees (average) | 24 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | 5.3% | 7.2% | 2.5% |
| Gross margin | — | 25.4% | 25.4% | 20.7% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £495k | £536k | £558k |
| Profit per employee | — | £26.4k | £38.7k | £13.7k |
| Cash conversion | — | −102.8% | −112.2% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲8.3% | ▲4% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲46.6% | ▼64.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲4.2% | 0% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.6m | £1.6m | £1.6m | £2m |
| Net assets | £2.2m | £2.3m | £3.4m | £3.6m |
| Fixed assets | £1.1m | £1.1m | £2.3m | £868k |
| Current assets | £3.6m | £4.4m | £4.1m | £5.9m |
| Debtors | £998k | £1.5m | £1.3m | £1.4m |
| Cash from operations | — | −£877k | −£1.4m | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £558k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £13.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 6.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.8%
- 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
- ▲4%
- Now £3.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲30%
- Now £2m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 25
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼63%
- Now £868k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Dispak Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Dispak Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (3)
- Dispak (Midlands) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Dispak (Northern) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Dispak (Southern) 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 31 Mar 2025 (profit £343k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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