Foam Techniques Limited
Registered name: FOAM TECHNIQUES LIMITED
Part of Avon Group Manufacturing (Holdings) Limited groupFoam Techniques Limited made £9m revenue and £879k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2024.
Foam Techniques Limited’s revenue fell 3% to £9m in the year to 31 Mar 2024, with £879k profit and 74 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of plastic plates, sheets, tubes and profiles” and is based in Bristol; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bristol, South West
- Age
- 39 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: “Avon Group Manufacturing (Holdings) Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £9.3m | £9m |
| Cost of sales | £6.9m | £6.6m |
| Gross profit | £2.3m | £2.4m |
| Operating profit | £925k | £877k |
| Profit before tax | £888k | £819k |
| Profit after tax | £823k | £879k |
| Profit (best available) | £823k | £879k |
| Staff costs | £2.1m | £2.1m |
| Employees (average) | 72 | 74 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 8.9% | 9.8% |
| Gross margin | 25.1% | 26.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £129k | £121k |
| Profit per employee | £11.4k | £11.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼3.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲6.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £565k | £788k |
| Net assets | £8.9m | £9.8m |
| Fixed assets | £883k | £1m |
| Current assets | £10.8m | £12m |
| Debtors | £1.3m | £1.4m |
| Deferred income | £85.3k | £62.7k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 26.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £121k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 11.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 15.9%
- 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
- ▲10%
- Now £9.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▲40%
- Now £788k
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 74
- Deferred income
- ▼27%
- Now £62.7k
- Fixed assets
- ▲14%
- Now £1m
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
- Avon Group Manufacturing (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Foam Techniques Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (12)
- A.e.r. Stafford LimitedRev. £15.4m · Profit −£675k
- Avon Engineered Rubber LimitedRev. £13.6m · Profit £108k
- Avon Tsa LimitedRev. £6.3m · Profit £367k
- Edgewest Plastics (UK) LimitedRev. £6.2m · Profit −£441k
- Avon Group Manufacturing LimitedRev. £4.7m · Profit −£255k
- P & D Manufacturing LimitedRev. £4.4m · Profit £59.3k
- Acoustaproducts LimitedRev. £3.1m · Profit £322k
- Scandura LimitedRev. £1.8m · Profit £166k
- Park Hill Property Investments LimitedRev. £1.4m · Profit £761k
- P.P. Injection Moulds & Mouldings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Slatebond LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Home of Foam LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Mar 2024 (profit £879k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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