Weststone Limited
Registered name: WESTSTONE LIMITED
Part of Weststone Group Ltd groupWeststone Limited made £19.4m revenue and £696k profit in the year to 31 Jan 2024.
Weststone Limited’s revenue grew 76% to £19.4m in the year to 31 Jan 2024, with £696k profit and 45 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other electrical equipment” and is based in Leeds; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Liquidation
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 30 yrs · since 1996
- 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 Jan 2023 | 31 Jan 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11m | £19.4m |
| Cost of sales | £8.8m | £15.4m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £4m |
| Operating profit | £420k | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | £375k | £944k |
| Profit after tax | £292k | £696k |
| Profit (best available) | £292k | £696k |
| Staff costs | £1.2m | £2m |
| Employees (average) | 38 | 45 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 2.6% | 3.6% |
| Gross margin | 20.4% | 20.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £290k | £431k |
| Profit per employee | £7.7k | £15.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲76% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲138.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲18.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £216k | £289k |
| Net assets | £3.1m | £2.9m |
| Fixed assets | £223k | £521k |
| Current assets | £7.8m | £11.7m |
| Debtors | £2.4m | £3.7m |
| Deferred income | £46k | £83.9k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £431k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £15.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 19.3%
- 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
- ▼6%
- Now £2.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▲34%
- Now £289k
- Headcount
- ▲18%
- Now 45
- Deferred income
- ▲82%
- Now £83.9k
- Fixed assets
- ▲134%
- Now £521k
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
- Weststone Group Ltd (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Weststone 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).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Jan 2024 (profit £696k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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