Frontier-Pitts Limited
Registered name: FRONTIER-PITTS LIMITED
Part of Frontier Pitts Holdings Limited groupFrontier-Pitts Limited made £12.3m revenue and £628k profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025.
Frontier-Pitts Limited’s revenue fell 7% to £12.3m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £628k profit and 123 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Crawley; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Crawley, South East
- Age
- 35 yrs · since 1991
- 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&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.5m | £13.2m | £13.2m | £12.3m |
| Cost of sales | £6.5m | £6.1m | £6.7m | £6m |
| Gross profit | £5m | £7.1m | £6.5m | £6.4m |
| Operating profit | £369k | £1.6m | £1.5m | £1m |
| Profit before tax | £289k | £1.6m | £1.7m | £990k |
| Profit after tax | £202k | £1.3m | £1.4m | £628k |
| Profit (best available) | £202k | £1.3m | £1.4m | £628k |
| Staff costs | — | — | £6.7m | £6.3m |
| Employees (average) | 117 | 116 | 123 | 123 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.8% | 9.9% | 10.3% | 5.1% |
| Gross margin | 43.2% | 53.5% | 49.5% | 51.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £98.1k | £114k | £108k | £100k |
| Profit per employee | £1.7k | £11.3k | £11k | £5.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲14.9% | ▲0.3% | ▼6.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲549.4% | ▲3.4% | ▼53.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼0.9% | ▲6% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.6m | £3.6m | £4.1m | £1m |
| Net assets | £5.4m | £6.1m | £6.5m | £7.1m |
| Fixed assets | £236k | £261k | £242k | £218k |
| Current assets | £7.6m | £9.8m | £10m | £11.2m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £1.9m | £1.5m | £1.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 51.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £100k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.4%
- 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
- ▲9%
- Now £7.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼75%
- Now £1m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 123
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼10%
- Now £218k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Frontier Pitts Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Frontier-Pitts 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 £628k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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