Abbotsound Limited
Registered name: ABBOTSOUND LIMITED
Part of Abbotsound Investments Limited groupAbbotsound Limited made £2.2m revenue and £114k profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Abbotsound Limited’s revenue fell 7% to £2.2m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £114k profit and 48 employees. The company is classified under “activities of other holding companies” and is based in Eccles; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Eccles, North West
- Age
- 30 yrs · since 1996
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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: “Abbotsound Investments Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £2.3m | £2.2m |
| Cost of sales | £1.2m | £981k |
| Gross profit | £1.1m | £1.2m |
| Operating profit | £747k | £285k |
| Profit before tax | £557k | £145k |
| Profit after tax | £464k | £114k |
| Profit (best available) | £464k | £114k |
| Staff costs | £1.2m | £1.2m |
| Employees (average) | 52 | 48 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 19.8% | 5.2% |
| Gross margin | 48.7% | 55% |
| Revenue per employee | £45.2k | £45.4k |
| Profit per employee | £8.9k | £2.4k |
| Cash conversion | −48.5% | −62.9% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼7.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼75.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼7.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £0 | £146k |
| Net assets | £4.7m | £4.8m |
| Fixed assets | £2.4m | £2.3m |
| Current assets | £5.6m | £5.7m |
| Debtors | £236k | £126k |
| Deferred income | £121k | £70.8k |
| Cash from operations | −£362k | −£179k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 55%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £45.4k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −62.9%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 105.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 5.8%
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now £4.8m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £146k
- Headcount
- ▼8%
- Now 48
- Deferred income
- ▼41%
- Now £70.8k
- Fixed assets
- ▼3%
- Now £2.3m
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
- Abbotsound Investments Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Abbotsound Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Abbotsound Parrin Lane LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Apr 2025 (profit £114k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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