Impress North East Limited
Registered name: IMPRESS NORTH EAST LIMITED
Part of Lucena Acquisitions LLP groupImpress North East Limited made £8.8m revenue and £518k profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025.
Impress North East Limited’s revenue fell 5% to £8.8m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £518k profit and 107 employees. The company is classified under “machining” and is based in Blaydon-on-Tyne; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Blaydon-on-Tyne, North East
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £3.5m | £9.3m | £8.8m |
| Cost of sales | £2.1m | £5.9m | £5.7m |
| Gross profit | £1.3m | £3.4m | £3.2m |
| Operating profit | £505k | £704k | £561k |
| Profit before tax | £486k | £664k | £524k |
| Profit after tax | £403k | £603k | £518k |
| Profit (best available) | £403k | £603k | £518k |
| Employees (average) | 97 | 101 | 107 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 11.7% | 6.5% | 5.9% |
| Gross margin | 38.6% | 36.5% | 36.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £35.6k | £92.2k | £82.7k |
| Profit per employee | £4.2k | £6k | £4.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▼5% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼14.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | ▲5.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 36.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £82.7k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.8k
- 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
- ▲6%
- Now 107
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Lucena Acquisitions LLPultimate parent75–100%
- Dynamo Topco Limited75–100%
- Dynamo Holdco Limited75–100%
- Dynamo Bidco Limited75–100%
- Impress North East Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (3)
- Express Lasers LimitedRev. £3.6m · Profit £309k
- Impressive Welding LimitedFigures not disclosed
- North Eastern Powder Coating LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Jul 2025 (profit £518k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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