Lasershape Limited
Registered name: LASERSHAPE LIMITED
Part of Lasershape Group Limited groupLasershape Limited made £12.8m revenue and £705k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025. read from filing text
Lasershape Limited’s revenue fell 3% to £12.8m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £705k profit and 104 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other fabricated metal products” and is based in Nottingham; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Nottingham, East Midlands
- Age
- 37 yrs · since 1988
- 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 company's immediate parent is Lasershape Group Limited (formerly known as Friar 146 Limited), incorporated in England & Wales.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £12.9m | £13.1m | £12.8m |
| Cost of sales | £9.3m | £9.5m | £9.4m |
| Gross profit | £3.5m | £3.6m | £3.3m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £1.2m | £1m |
| Profit before tax | £1.1m | £1.1m | £952k |
| Profit after tax | £874k | £802k | £705k |
| Profit (best available) | £874k | £802k | £705k |
| Staff costs | £3.2m | £3.6m | £3.8m |
| Employees (average) | 99 | 104 | 104 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 6.8% | 6.1% | 5.5% |
| Gross margin | 27.4% | 27.8% | 26.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £130k | £126k | £123k |
| Profit per employee | £8.8k | £7.7k | £6.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲2% | ▼2.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼8.2% | ▼12.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5.1% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.5m | £1.6m | £2m |
| Net assets | £3.4m | £4m | £4.4m |
| Fixed assets | £1.9m | £2.1m | £2.5m |
| Current assets | £6m | £6.3m | £6.9m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £2m | £2.3m |
| Deferred income | £195k | £121k | £164k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 26.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £123k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 19.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17.7%
- 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 £4.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲20%
- Now £2m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 104
- Deferred income
- ▲36%
- Now £164k
- Fixed assets
- ▲22%
- Now £2.5m
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
- Lasershape Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Lasershape Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Lasershape Technologies 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 30 Jun 2025 (profit £705k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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