Dycem Limited
Registered name: DYCEM LIMITED
Part of Fox Investments [Holdings] Ltd groupDycem Limited made £3.5m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025 (revenue not disclosed).
Dycem Limited reported £3.5m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025, up 102% on the year before; its revenue was not disclosed. It had 41 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other plastic products” and is based in Bristol; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bristol, South West
- 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
This company published its profit but not its turnover, so revenue and margins are not disclosed. We never estimate them.
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit only | Profit only | Profit only | Profit only |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — | — |
| Cost of sales | £5m | £5.3m | £5.9m | £6.4m |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £3m | £5.6m |
| Profit after tax | £2.5m | £493k | £1.7m | £3.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.5m | £493k | £1.7m | £3.5m |
| Staff costs | £2.7m | £2.8m | £3.1m | £3.1m |
| Employees (average) | 46 | 49 | 49 | 41 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | — | — |
| Profit per employee | £54.4k | £10.1k | £35.2k | £85k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Profit growth | — | ▼80.3% | ▲250.5% | ▲101.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲6.5% | 0% | ▼16.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £248k | £587k | £781k | £2.1m |
| Net assets | £3.7m | £4.2m | £5.9m | £5.2m |
| Fixed assets | £536k | £594k | £545k | £683k |
| Current assets | £5.3m | £5.3m | £7.5m | £6.4m |
| Debtors | £623k | £724k | £825k | £795k |
| Deferred income | £314k | £330k | £587k | £525k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £85k
- 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
- ▼13%
- Now £5.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲170%
- Now £2.1m
- Headcount
- ▼16%
- Now 41
- Deferred income
- ▼11%
- Now £525k
- Fixed assets
- ▲25%
- Now £683k
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
- Fox Investments [Holdings] Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Longacre Group Limited75–100%
- Seafox Dycem 1 Limited75–100%
- Seafox Dycem 2 Limited75–100%
- Dycem 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 Dec 2025 (profit £3.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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