Alcon Components Limited
Registered name: ALCON COMPONENTS LIMITED
Part of Alcon Performance Engineering Group Limited groupAlcon Components Limited made £25.3m revenue and £44.2k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Alcon Components Limited’s revenue fell 13% to £25.3m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £44.2k profit and 196 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in London; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- 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: “The immediate parent company is Automotive Performance Technologies Limited,”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £28.9m | £25.3m |
| Cost of sales | £15.8m | £13.6m |
| Gross profit | £13.1m | £11.7m |
| Profit before tax | £496k | £258k |
| Profit after tax | £147k | £44.2k |
| Profit (best available) | £147k | £44.2k |
| Employees (average) | 218 | 196 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 0.5% | 0.2% |
| Gross margin | 45.4% | 46.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £133k | £129k |
| Profit per employee | £673 | £226 |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼12.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼69.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼10.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £476k | £682k |
| Net assets | £9.9m | £9.9m |
| Fixed assets | £13.7m | £14.3m |
| Current assets | £23.2m | £23.6m |
| Debtors | £5.4m | £5.3m |
| Deferred income | £2.7m | £1.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 46.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £129k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £226
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 56.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 20.9%
- 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
- ▲0%
- Now £9.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▲43%
- Now £682k
- Headcount
- ▼10%
- Now 196
- Deferred income
- ▼61%
- Now £1.1m
- Fixed assets
- ▲4%
- Now £14.3m
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
- Alcon Performance Engineering Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Automotive Performance Technologies Limited75–100%
- Alcon Components 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 30 Sep 2025 (profit £44.2k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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