Spax UK Limited
Registered name: SPAX UK LIMITED
Spax UK Limited made £10.1m revenue and £254k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Spax UK Limited’s revenue fell 8% to £10.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £254k profit and 22 employees. The company is classified under “non-specialised wholesale trade” and is based in Wolverhampton; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wolverhampton, West Midlands
- Age
- 29 yrs · since 1997
- 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: “The parent undertaking is ABC Finanzierungs-und Beteiligungs GmbH, a company incorporated in Germany, with its registered office at Kölner Strasse 71-77, 58256 Ennepetal, Germany.”
Key figures
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 | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £10.1m | £11.1m | £11m | £10.1m |
| Cost of sales | £7.2m | £8.1m | £8.3m | £7.6m |
| Gross profit | £2.9m | £3m | £2.7m | £2.5m |
| Operating profit | £672k | £767k | £589k | £356k |
| Profit before tax | £672k | £770k | £590k | £359k |
| Profit after tax | £533k | £579k | £430k | £254k |
| Profit (best available) | £533k | £579k | £430k | £254k |
| Staff costs | £1.2m | £1.2m | £1.2m | £1.2m |
| Employees (average) | 22 | 22 | 20 | 22 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5.3% | 5.2% | 3.9% | 2.5% |
| Gross margin | 28.9% | 26.7% | 24.5% | 25.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £460k | £503k | £549k | £460k |
| Profit per employee | £24.2k | £26.3k | £21.5k | £11.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲9.5% | ▼0.9% | ▼7.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲8.8% | ▼25.8% | ▼40.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▼9.1% | ▲10% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £852k | £111k | £622k | £701k |
| Net assets | £3.8m | £4m | £4m | £4m |
| Fixed assets | £602k | £543k | £522k | £454k |
| Current assets | £4m | £4.9m | £5.3m | £4.9m |
| Debtors | £1.5m | £3m | £2.5m | £2m |
| Deferred income | £513k | £771k | £748k | £535k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £460k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 4.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 19.5%
- 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
- ▲1%
- Now £4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲13%
- Now £701k
- Headcount
- ▲10%
- Now 22
- Deferred income
- ▼28%
- Now £535k
- Fixed assets
- ▼13%
- Now £454k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £254k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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