Opal Food Processing Systems Limited
Registered name: OPAL FOOD PROCESSING SYSTEMS LIMITED
Part of Alcuin Capital Partners LLP groupOpal Food Processing Systems Limited made £6.9m revenue and £297k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Opal Food Processing Systems Limited’s revenue grew 37% to £6.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £297k profit and 23 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing” and is based in Cambridgeshire; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cambridgeshire
- Age
- 30 yrs · since 1996
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7.2m | £5.1m | £6.9m |
| Cost of sales | £4.8m | £3.3m | −£4.9m |
| Gross profit | £2.5m | £1.8m | £2.1m |
| Operating profit | £319k | £122k | £374k |
| Profit before tax | £319k | £91.6k | £374k |
| Profit after tax | — | — | £297k |
| Profit (best available) | £319k | £91.6k | £297k |
| Employees (average) | 34 | 31 | 23 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.4% | 1.8% | 4.3% |
| Gross margin | 34.1% | 35.4% | 29.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £213k | £163k | £302k |
| Profit per employee | £9.4k | £3k | £12.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼30.2% | ▲37.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼71.3% | ▲224% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼8.8% | ▼25.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 29.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £302k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £12.9k
- 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
- ▼26%
- Now 23
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Alcuin Capital Partners LLPultimate parent75–100%
- Alcuin GP V LLP75–100%
- SF Topco Limited75–100%
- Opal Food Processing Systems Limitedthis 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).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £297k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 18 Oct 2026
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