Scomac Catering Equipment Limited
Registered name: SCOMAC CATERING EQUIPMENT LIMITED
Part of Unitech Industries Limited groupScomac Catering Equipment Limited made £13.6m revenue and £206k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Scomac Catering Equipment Limited’s revenue grew 3% to £13.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £206k profit and 82 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other fabricated metal products” and is based in Staffordshire; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Staffordshire, West Midlands
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.5m | £15.4m | £13.2m | £13.6m |
| Cost of sales | £9.9m | £11.5m | £9.5m | £9.6m |
| Gross profit | £3.6m | £3.9m | £3.7m | £4m |
| Operating profit | £241k | £326k | £3.9k | £287k |
| Profit before tax | £237k | £339k | £3.2k | £275k |
| Profit after tax | £191k | £256k | £44 | £206k |
| Profit (best available) | £191k | £256k | £44 | £206k |
| Staff costs | £3.2m | £3.5m | £3.5m | £3.5m |
| Employees (average) | 86 | 84 | 84 | 82 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.4% | 1.7% | 0% | 1.5% |
| Gross margin | 26.4% | 25.5% | 27.8% | 29.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £157k | £184k | £157k | £165k |
| Profit per employee | £2.2k | £3k | £1 | £2.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲14.4% | ▼14.7% | ▲3.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲34.1% | ▼100% | ▲468043% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼2.3% | 0% | ▼2.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £534k | £954k | £2.4k | £2.8k |
| Net assets | £1m | £1.2m | £765k | £971k |
| Fixed assets | £265k | £223k | £874k | £885k |
| Current assets | £4m | £4.8m | £3.2m | £3.5m |
| Debtors | £2.8m | £3.1m | £2.6m | £2.9m |
| Deferred income | £143k | £397k | £164k | £150k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 29.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £165k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 6.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 21.5%
- 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
- ▲27%
- Now £971k
- Cash at bank
- ▲18%
- Now £2.8k
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 82
- Deferred income
- ▼9%
- Now £150k
- Fixed assets
- ▲1%
- Now £885k
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
- Unitech Industries Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Scomac Catering Equipment Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (13)
- Burntwood Engineering Company LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Corsair Engineering LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Corsair Wholesale LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Court Catering Equipment LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Driver Southall LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Scomac Catering Group LtdFigures not disclosed
- Stellex Manufacturing LtdFigures not disclosed
- Unitech Blaymires LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Unitech Engineering LtdFigures not disclosed
- Unitech Group Leasing Co. Ltd.Figures not disclosed
- Unitech Machinery LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Unitech Projects LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Unitech Washing Systems Ltd.Figures 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 £206k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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