M & I Materials Limited
Registered name: M & I MATERIALS LIMITED
Part of M&i Materials Holdings Limited groupM & I Materials Limited made £17.2m revenue and £374k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
M & I Materials Limited’s revenue fell 77% to £17.2m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £374k profit and 131 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other chemical products” and is based in Salford; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Salford, North West
- Age
- 33 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 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £90m | £73.7m | £17.2m |
| Cost of sales | £66.5m | £49.4m | £10.7m |
| Gross profit | £23.5m | £24.4m | £6.5m |
| Operating profit | £10.4m | −£20.6m | £569k |
| Profit before tax | £10.5m | −£20.5m | £539k |
| Profit after tax | £8.5m | −£20.6m | £374k |
| Profit (best available) | £8.5m | −£20.6m | £374k |
| Staff costs | £9.4m | £9.1m | £6.7m |
| Employees (average) | 174 | 166 | 131 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 9.4% | −28% | 2.2% |
| Gross margin | 26.1% | 33.1% | 37.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £517k | £444k | £131k |
| Profit per employee | £48.6k | −£124k | £2.9k |
| Cash conversion | 61.2% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼18.1% | ▼76.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼343.9% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4.6% | ▼21.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £10.7m | £5.4m | £4.9m |
| Net assets | £33.2m | £12.6m | £13m |
| Fixed assets | £11.5m | £2.2m | £5m |
| Current assets | £44.3m | £14.4m | £12.2m |
| Debtors | £18.4m | £3.8m | £2.3m |
| Deferred income | £1.5m | £168k | £239k |
| Cash from operations | £6.4m | £7.7m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 37.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £131k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 29.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.6%
- 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
- ▲3%
- Now £13m
- Cash at bank
- ▼8%
- Now £4.9m
- Headcount
- ▼21%
- Now 131
- Deferred income
- ▲42%
- Now £239k
- Fixed assets
- ▲124%
- Now £5m
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
- M&i Materials Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- M & I Materials Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Apiezon Products LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £374k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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