TCL Manufacturing Limited
Registered name: TCL MANUFACTURING LIMITED
Part of Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. groupTCL Manufacturing Limited made £19.9m revenue and £1.2m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
TCL Manufacturing Limited’s revenue fell 2% to £19.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £1.2m profit and 198 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other fabricated metal products” and is based in Rainham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Rainham, London
- Age
- 36 yrs · since 1990
- 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 company is Victoria & Albert Baths Limited, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom. The Company's ultimate parent company and controlling party is Fortune Brands I”
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) | £16.2m | £18.6m | £20.3m | £19.9m |
| Cost of sales | £10.7m | £12.5m | £14.8m | £17.1m |
| Gross profit | £5.5m | £6m | £5.4m | £2.9m |
| Operating profit | −£1.1m | £549k | −£4.1m | £2.4m |
| Profit before tax | −£1.1m | £423k | −£4.6m | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | −£1.4m | £423k | −£4.6m | £1.2m |
| Profit (best available) | −£1.4m | £423k | −£4.6m | £1.2m |
| Staff costs | £7.4m | £8.7m | £9.8m | £10m |
| Employees (average) | 174 | 199 | 199 | 198 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | −8.6% | 2.3% | −22.7% | 5.8% |
| Gross margin | 34% | 32.5% | 26.8% | 14.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £93.2k | £93.3k | £102k | £101k |
| Profit per employee | −£8k | £2.1k | −£23.1k | £5.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲14.5% | ▲9.2% | ▼1.6% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼1189% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲14.4% | 0% | ▼0.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2.1m | £1.1m | £463k | £1.6m |
| Net assets | £9.2m | £9.6m | £5m | £6.1m |
| Fixed assets | £4.5m | £4.4m | £3.9m | £3.8m |
| Current assets | £10m | £12m | £16m | £29.5m |
| Debtors | £1m | £898k | £1.8m | £1.1m |
| Deferred income | £989k | £607k | £1.4m | £937k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 14.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £101k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 19.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 5.6%
- 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
- ▲23%
- Now £6.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲246%
- Now £1.6m
- Headcount
- ▼1%
- Now 198
- Deferred income
- ▼35%
- Now £937k
- Fixed assets
- ▼2%
- Now £3.8m
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
- Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- TCL Manufacturing Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Avilion LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offFigures not disclosed
- Perrin & Rowe LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offFigures 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 £1.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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