Centrality Limited
Registered name: CENTRALITY LIMITED
Part of Intercity Technology Group Holdings Limited groupCentrality Limited made £16.2m revenue and £1m profit in the year to 30 Jun 2024. read from filing text
Centrality Limited’s revenue fell 5% to £16.2m in the year to 30 Jun 2024, with £1m profit and 93 employees. The company is classified under “information technology consultancy activities” and is based in Birmingham; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Birmingham, West Midlands
- 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. From the filing: “During the year there was a change in ownership of the immediate parent company, Centrality Management Limited, which was acquired by Intercity Technology Limited on 25 April 2024. The ultimate parent”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.9m | £17m | £16.2m |
| Cost of sales | £10.9m | £13.2m | £12.2m |
| Gross profit | £2.9m | £3.8m | £4m |
| Operating profit | £698k | £1.1m | £991k |
| Profit before tax | £687k | £1.1m | £661k |
| Profit after tax | £580k | £888k | £1m |
| Profit (best available) | £580k | £888k | £1m |
| Staff costs | £3.6m | £4.4m | £4.9m |
| Employees (average) | 77 | 88 | 93 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.2% | 5.2% | 6.2% |
| Gross margin | 21.2% | 22.3% | 24.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £180k | £194k | £174k |
| Profit per employee | £7.5k | £10.1k | £10.8k |
| Cash conversion | −160.2% | −130.1% | −78.1% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲23% | ▼4.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲53.2% | ▲13.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲14.3% | ▲5.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £206k | £952k | £761k |
| Net assets | £74.8k | £457k | £1m |
| Fixed assets | £151k | £166k | £149k |
| Current assets | £4.5m | £5.1m | £5m |
| Debtors | £1.6m | £1.5m | £1.9m |
| Deferred income | £1.9m | £2m | £2m |
| Cash from operations | −£1.1m | −£1.5m | −£774k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 24.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £174k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −78.1%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 12.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11.6%
- 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
- ▲122%
- Now £1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼20%
- Now £761k
- Headcount
- ▲6%
- Now 93
- Deferred income
- ▼0%
- Now £2m
- Fixed assets
- ▼10%
- Now £149k
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
- Intercity Technology Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Intercity Technology Holdings Limited75–100%
- Intercity Technology Limited75–100%
- Centrality Management Limited75–100%
- Centrality 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 30 Jun 2024 (profit £1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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