Mansell Building Solutions Ltd
Registered name: MANSELL BUILDING SOLUTIONS LTD
Part of Eas Investments Limited groupMansell Building Solutions Ltd made £13.1m revenue and £481k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Mansell Building Solutions Ltd’s revenue grew 1% to £13.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £481k profit and 54 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures” and is based in 1 Oxford Street; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- In Administration
- Location
- 1 Oxford Street, North West
- 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”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.3m | £13m | £13.1m |
| Cost of sales | £11.6m | £9.1m | £9.8m |
| Gross profit | £2.7m | £3.9m | £3.3m |
| Operating profit | £813k | £1m | £647k |
| Profit before tax | £708k | £897k | £565k |
| Profit after tax | £789k | £897k | £481k |
| Profit (best available) | £789k | £897k | £481k |
| Staff costs | £2.1m | £2.4m | £2.5m |
| Employees (average) | 46 | 52 | 54 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 5.5% | 6.9% | 3.7% |
| Gross margin | 18.9% | 30.2% | 25% |
| Revenue per employee | £312k | £251k | £243k |
| Profit per employee | £17.2k | £17.3k | £8.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼9.1% | ▲0.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲13.7% | ▼46.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲13% | ▲3.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £517k | £359k | £215k |
| Net assets | £3.8m | £4.7m | £5m |
| Fixed assets | £250k | £128k | £122k |
| Current assets | £9m | £8.1m | £10m |
| Debtors | £2.2m | £1.2m | £2.9m |
| Deferred income | £1m | £826k | £1.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £243k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £8.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 9.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 22.2%
- 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
- ▲6%
- Now £5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼40%
- Now £215k
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 54
- Deferred income
- ▲52%
- Now £1.3m
- Fixed assets
- ▼5%
- Now £122k
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
- Eas Investments Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- M&J Holdings (Manchester) Limited75–100%
- Mansell Building Solutions Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
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 £481k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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