Uniglass Limited
Registered name: UNIGLASS LIMITED
Part of Oriole Glass Holdings Limited groupUniglass Limited made £8.4m revenue and £493k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Uniglass Limited’s revenue fell 20% to £8.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £493k profit and 13 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment” and is based in Northampton; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Northampton, East Midlands
- Age
- 37 yrs · since 1989
- 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 Dec 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11m | £11.7m | £10.6m | £8.4m |
| Cost of sales | £8.4m | £8.7m | £8.1m | £6.5m |
| Gross profit | £2.6m | £2.9m | £2.5m | £1.9m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £1.6m | £1m | £510k |
| Profit before tax | £1.5m | £1.6m | £889k | £487k |
| Profit after tax | £1.2m | £1.6m | £880k | £493k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.2m | £1.6m | £880k | £493k |
| Staff costs | £575k | £590k | £635k | £648k |
| Employees (average) | 13 | 13 | 12 | 13 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 11.1% | 14% | 8.3% | 5.9% |
| Gross margin | 24% | 25.2% | 23.4% | 23.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £846k | £897k | £882k | £648k |
| Profit per employee | £94k | £125k | £73.3k | £37.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲6% | ▼9.2% | ▼20.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲33.4% | ▼46% | ▼44% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▼7.7% | ▲8.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £612k | £163k | £239k | £313k |
| Net assets | £3.5m | £3.4m | £2m | £2.5m |
| Fixed assets | £2.1m | £2.1m | £465k | £440k |
| Current assets | £2.6m | £2.1m | £2.4m | £2.9m |
| Debtors | £576k | £417k | £473k | £543k |
| Deferred income | £122k | £193k | £225k | £248k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 23.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £648k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £37.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 5.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 6.4%
- 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
- ▲24%
- Now £2.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲31%
- Now £313k
- Headcount
- ▲8%
- Now 13
- Deferred income
- ▲10%
- Now £248k
- Fixed assets
- ▼5%
- Now £440k
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
- Oriole Glass Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Uniglass Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- P J B Glass Group LimitedLiquidationFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (1)
- Origlass UK 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 Dec 2024 (profit £493k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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