Riverdale Paper PLC
Registered name: RIVERDALE PAPER PLC
Riverdale Paper PLC made £9.3m revenue and £395k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Riverdale Paper PLC’s revenue grew 12% to £9.3m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £395k profit. The company is classified under “recovery of sorted materials” and is based in Gateshead; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Gateshead, North East
- Age
- 33 yrs · since 1993
- Type
- Public Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.7m | £9.9m | £8.4m | £9.3m |
| Cost of sales | £7.8m | £6.3m | £5.6m | −£6.3m |
| Gross profit | £3.9m | £3.6m | £2.7m | £3m |
| Operating profit | £770k | £975k | £21.9k | £359k |
| Profit before tax | £783k | £1.1m | £209k | £543k |
| Profit after tax | £682k | £751k | £145k | £395k |
| Profit (best available) | £682k | £751k | £145k | £395k |
| Staff costs | £3m | £2.1m | £2.5m | — |
| Employees (average) | 44 | 49 | 49 | — |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5.8% | 7.6% | 1.7% | 4.2% |
| Gross margin | 33.1% | 36.1% | 32.5% | 32.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £266k | £201k | £171k | — |
| Profit per employee | £15.5k | £15.3k | £3k | — |
| Cash conversion | −161.5% | −33.5% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼15.7% | ▼15.2% | ▲11.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲10.2% | ▼80.7% | ▲172.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲11.4% | 0% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £4m | £4m | £4.5m | — |
| Net assets | £7.9m | £8.7m | £8.8m | — |
| Fixed assets | £5.2m | £5.3m | £5m | — |
| Current assets | £6.1m | £5.6m | £6.2m | — |
| Debtors | £1.4m | £1.1m | £1.3m | — |
| Deferred income | £1.6m | £424k | £538k | — |
| Cash from operations | −£1.2m | −£326k | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 32.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- 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
- —
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- Deferred income
- —
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- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £395k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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