Premier Corex Ltd
Registered name: PREMIER COREX LTD
Part of Premier Corex Llc groupPremier Corex Ltd made £8m revenue and a £209k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Premier Corex Ltd’s revenue fell 6% to £8m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £209k and 100 employees. The company is classified under “other research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering” and is based in Reading; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Reading, South East
- Age
- 32 yrs · since 1994
- 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 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £8.6m | £8m |
| Cost of sales | £5.1m | £4.3m |
| Gross profit | £3.5m | £3.7m |
| Operating profit | £677k | £922k |
| Profit before tax | £642k | £917k |
| Profit after tax | −£169k | −£209k |
| Profit (best available) | −£169k | −£209k |
| Employees (average) | 102 | 100 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −2% | −2.6% |
| Gross margin | 41% | 46.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £84.1k | £80.3k |
| Profit per employee | −£1.7k | −£2.1k |
| Cash conversion | −354.7% | −142.1% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼6.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £6.1m | £3.4m |
| Net assets | £334k | −£111k |
| Fixed assets | £1.4m | £1.2m |
| Debtors | £2.1m | £2.6m |
| Deferred income | £1.2m | £1.9m |
| Cash from operations | −£2.4m | −£1.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −2.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 46.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £80.3k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£2.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −142.1%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 15%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 23.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 32.4%
- 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
- ▼133%
- Now −£111k
- Cash at bank
- ▼45%
- Now £3.4m
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 100
- Deferred income
- ▲54%
- Now £1.9m
- Fixed assets
- ▼12%
- Now £1.2m
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
- Premier Corex Llc (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Premier Corex Ltdthis 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit −£209k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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