Duncan Print Group Limited
Registered name: DUNCAN PRINT GROUP LIMITED
Part of Carton Group Gmbh groupDuncan Print Group Limited made £7.9m revenue and £339k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Duncan Print Group Limited’s revenue fell 7% to £7.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £339k profit and 52 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other articles of paper and paperboard” and is based in Welwyn Garden City; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Welwyn Garden City, East of England
- Age
- 29 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 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £8.4m | £7.9m |
| Cost of sales | −£4.6m | −£4.4m |
| Gross profit | £3.8m | £3.5m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £521k |
| Profit before tax | £1m | £515k |
| Profit after tax | £758k | £339k |
| Profit (best available) | £758k | £339k |
| Employees (average) | 53 | 52 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 9% | 4.3% |
| Gross margin | 45.5% | 43.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £159k | £152k |
| Profit per employee | £14.3k | £6.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼6.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼55.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼1.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Net assets | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 43.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £152k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.5k
- 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
- ▼2%
- Now 52
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Carton Group Gmbh (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Duncan Print Group 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 accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit £339k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 12 Oct 2026
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