Ambu Limited
Registered name: AMBU LIMITED
Part of Ambu A/S groupAmbu Limited made £51.3m revenue and £1.1m profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Ambu Limited’s revenue grew 12% to £51.3m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £1.1m profit and 65 employees. The company is classified under “non-specialised wholesale trade” and is based in Alconbury Weald; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Alconbury Weald, East of England
- 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. From the filing: “The company is a subsidiary of Ambu A/S.”
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) | £46m | £51.3m |
| Cost of sales | £35.3m | £40.4m |
| Gross profit | £10.7m | £10.9m |
| Operating profit | £1.7m | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | £1.7m | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.3m | £1.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.3m | £1.1m |
| Staff costs | £5.4m | £5.5m |
| Employees (average) | 59 | 65 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 2.8% | 2.1% |
| Gross margin | 23.2% | 21.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £779k | £790k |
| Profit per employee | £21.5k | £16.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲11.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼14.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲10.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £73 | £73 |
| Net assets | £4.9m | £6m |
| Fixed assets | £49k | £5 |
| Current assets | £10.5m | £9.4m |
| Debtors | £6.3m | £5m |
| Deferred income | £955k | £940k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 21.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £790k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £16.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.7%
- 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
- ▲22%
- Now £6m
- Cash at bank
- 0%
- Now £73
- Headcount
- ▲10%
- Now 65
- Deferred income
- ▼2%
- Now £940k
- Fixed assets
- ▼100%
- Now £5
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
- Ambu A/S (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Ambu 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 £1.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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