Ced Fabrications Limited
Registered name: CED FABRICATIONS LIMITED
Ced Fabrications Limited made £19.9m revenue and £1.6m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Ced Fabrications Limited’s revenue grew 4% to £19.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.6m profit and 157 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of tubes, pipes, hollow profiles and related fittings, of steel” and is based in Accrington; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Accrington, North West
- 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. From the filing: “Tournus Croissance”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £19.1m | £19.9m |
| Cost of sales | £11.5m | £12.2m |
| Gross profit | £7.6m | £7.8m |
| Profit before tax | £2.3m | £2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.7m | £1.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.7m | £1.6m |
| Staff costs | — | £7.9m |
| Employees (average) | 157 | 157 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 8.8% | 7.9% |
| Gross margin | 39.6% | 39% |
| Revenue per employee | £122k | £127k |
| Profit per employee | £10.8k | £10k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲4.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼6.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £497k | £1.2m |
| Net assets | £4.8m | £5.4m |
| Fixed assets | £1.6m | £1.7m |
| Current assets | £7m | £7.7m |
| Debtors | £3m | £3m |
| Cash from operations | £2m | £2.9m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 39%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £127k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 8.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 15%
- 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
- ▲11%
- Now £5.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲146%
- Now £1.2m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 157
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲7%
- Now £1.7m
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £1.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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