PPL Realisations 2025 Limited
Registered name: PPL REALISATIONS 2025 LIMITED
Part of PFF Packaging Group Limited groupPPL Realisations 2025 Limited made £18.9m revenue and a £498k loss in the year to 31 Jan 2024.
PPL Realisations 2025 Limited’s revenue was £18.9m in the year to 31 Jan 2024, with a loss of £498k and 102 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of plastic packing goods” and is based in Leeds; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- In Administration
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber
- 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 2021 | 31 Jan 2023 | 31 Jan 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £16.6m | £32.4m | £18.9m |
| Cost of sales | £11.5m | £24.2m | £14.1m |
| Gross profit | £5.1m | £8.2m | £4.8m |
| Operating profit | £385k | £686k | −£279k |
| Profit before tax | £133k | £198k | −£662k |
| Profit after tax | £111k | £59.2k | −£498k |
| Profit (best available) | £111k | £59.2k | −£498k |
| Staff costs | £3.7m | £5.2m | £3.9m |
| Employees (average) | 112 | 103 | 102 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.7% | 0.2% | −2.6% |
| Gross margin | 30.7% | 25.4% | 25.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £148k | £315k | £185k |
| Profit per employee | £995 | £575 | −£4.9k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £294k | £2.1k | £501 |
| Net assets | £3m | £3.1m | £2.6m |
| Fixed assets | £3.4m | £3.2m | £2.9m |
| Current assets | £8.7m | £10m | £8.8m |
| Debtors | £3.5m | £3.4m | £2.9m |
| Deferred income | £85.5k | £124k | £97.5k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −2.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £185k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£4.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 15.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 15.3%
- 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
- —
- Now £2.6m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £501
- Headcount
- —
- Now 102
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £97.5k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £2.9m
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
- PFF Packaging Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- PPL Realisations 2025 Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (3)
- Ppnel Realisations 2025 LimitedIn AdministrationRev. £22.2m · Profit −£2m
- Arvensis Packaging Films LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offRev. £0 · Profit £0
- PFF Packaging (Sedgefield) LimitedLiquidationRev. £0 · Profit £236k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Jan 2024 (profit −£498k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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