Ability Handling Limited
Registered name: ABILITY HANDLING LIMITED
Part of Aprolis Holdings Sas groupAbility Handling Limited made £2.5m revenue and £85k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Ability Handling Limited’s revenue was £2.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £85k profit and 23 employees. The company is classified under “repair of machinery” and is based in Nottingham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Nottingham, East Midlands
- Age
- 34 yrs · since 1992
- 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 | 3 May 2024 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £4m | £2.4m | £2.5m |
| Cost of sales | — | £3.2m | £1.7m | £1.5m |
| Gross profit | — | £892k | £738k | £932k |
| Operating profit | — | £294k | £685k | £243k |
| Profit before tax | — | £287k | £588k | £172k |
| Profit after tax | — | £37k | £434k | £85k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £37k | £434k | £85k |
| Employees (average) | 28 | 27 | 26 | 23 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | 0.9% | 18.1% | 3.5% |
| Gross margin | — | 22.1% | 30.7% | 37.8% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £150k | £92.5k | £107k |
| Profit per employee | — | £1.4k | £16.7k | £3.7k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Headcount growth | — | ▼3.6% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £510k | £499k | £1.7m | — |
| Net assets | £1.9m | £2.1m | £2.3m | — |
| Fixed assets | £1.2m | £1.5m | £2.1m | — |
| Current assets | £1.1m | £1.2m | £2.4m | — |
| Debtors | £362k | £433k | £500k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 37.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £107k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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 —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- —
- Now 23
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Aprolis Holdings Sas (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Aprolis UK Limited75–100%
- GHL Liftrucks Limited75–100%
- Ability Handling Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- A.l.t (Holdings) LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offFigures not disclosed
- Angus Lift Trucks LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit £85k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 17 Oct 2026
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