Empire Tapes Ltd
Registered name: EMPIRE TAPES LTD
Part of Zeus Packaging Investments (UK) Limited groupEmpire Tapes Ltd made £17m revenue and a £549k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Empire Tapes Ltd’s revenue was £17m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £549k and 51 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other textiles” and is based in Rotherham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 33 yrs · since 1993
- 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 undertaking of Empire Tapes Limited is Zeus Packaging Investments (UK) Limited, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom. The parent company of the smallest and largest group ”
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 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.3m | £13.3m | £13.4m | £17m |
| Cost of sales | £8.6m | £8.6m | £8.8m | £11.3m |
| Gross profit | £4.7m | £4.6m | £4.7m | £5.7m |
| Operating profit | £140k | £183k | £183k | −£384k |
| Profit before tax | £116k | £46.5k | −£40.7k | −£651k |
| Profit after tax | £102k | £42.2k | −£28.7k | −£549k |
| Profit (best available) | £102k | £42.2k | −£28.7k | −£549k |
| Staff costs | — | — | £1.9m | £2.5m |
| Employees (average) | 62 | 53 | 59 | 51 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 0.8% | 0.3% | −0.2% | −3.2% |
| Gross margin | 35.5% | 34.8% | 34.6% | 33.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £215k | £250k | £228k | £333k |
| Profit per employee | £1.6k | £797 | −£486 | −£10.8k |
| Cash conversion | 459.3% | 34.6% | 518.2% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼0.4% | ▲1.3% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▼58.5% | ▼168% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼14.5% | ▲11.3% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £6.7k | £119k | £100k | £71.4k |
| Net assets | £1.9m | £2m | £2m | £1.4m |
| Fixed assets | £1.3m | £1.6m | £1.7m | £0 |
| Current assets | £8m | £7.4m | £6.7m | £5.5m |
| Debtors | £3.2m | £3.7m | £3.5m | £2.7m |
| Deferred income | £358k | £290k | £221k | £852k |
| Cash from operations | £641k | £63.4k | £949k | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −3.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 33.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £333k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£10.8k
- 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
- 5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 16%
- 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 £1.4m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £71.4k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 51
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £852k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £0
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
- Zeus Packaging Investments (UK) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Empire Tapes Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (12)
- James Hamilton & Company (Lurgan) LimitedRev. £14.4m · Profit £676k
- Simpac (Holdings) LimitedRev. £0 · Profit £844k
- Box - Mart LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Sam McLernon Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Smith Bateson Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Swanline Holdings LtdFigures not disclosed
- Swanline Paper & Board LimitedLiquidationFigures not disclosed
- Vaiopak LimitedLiquidationFigures not disclosed
- Weedon Holdings LimitedRev. — · Profit £103k
- Zeus Packaging (Ep) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Zeus Packaging (Ni) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Zeus Packaging (UK) 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 Dec 2025 (profit −£549k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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