United Fillings Limited
Registered name: UNITED FILLINGS LIMITED
Part of United Fillings Group Limited groupUnited Fillings Limited made £8.4m revenue and a £467k loss in the year to 31 Jul 2025.
United Fillings Limited’s revenue fell 21% to £8.4m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with a loss of £467k and 104 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Billingborough; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Billingborough, East Midlands
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2022 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.6m | £12.6m | £10.6m | £8.4m |
| Cost of sales | £10.8m | £10m | £8.1m | £6.7m |
| Gross profit | £3.8m | £2.7m | £2.6m | £1.7m |
| Operating profit | £1.5m | £530k | £496k | −£697k |
| Profit before tax | £1.5m | £483k | £467k | −£724k |
| Profit after tax | £1.2m | £374k | £346k | −£467k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.2m | £374k | £346k | −£467k |
| Staff costs | £3.3m | £3.3m | £3.2m | £3m |
| Employees (average) | 126 | 129 | 116 | 104 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 8.4% | 3% | 3.3% | −5.6% |
| Gross margin | 26% | 21.3% | 24.2% | 19.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £116k | £98k | £91.8k | £80.4k |
| Profit per employee | £9.7k | £2.9k | £3k | −£4.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼13.3% | ▼15.8% | ▼21.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼69.3% | ▼7.5% | ▼234.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2.4% | ▼10.1% | ▼10.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £81.9k | £37.6k | £28.4k | £25k |
| Net assets | £7.2m | £7.5m | £7.8m | £7.3m |
| Fixed assets | £908k | £1m | £1m | £942k |
| Current assets | £9.1m | £8.3m | £8m | £7.7m |
| Debtors | £2.5m | £1.8m | £1.3m | £844k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −5.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 19.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £80.4k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£4.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 11.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 10.1%
- 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 £7.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼12%
- Now £25k
- Headcount
- ▼10%
- Now 104
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼6%
- Now £942k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- United Fillings Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- United Fillings Holdings Limited75–100%
- United Fillings Limitedthis 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 Jul 2025 (profit −£467k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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