Polgain Limited
Registered name: POLGAIN LIMITED
Part of Saint Vincent Holdings Limited groupPolgain Limited made £1m revenue and a £509k loss in the year to 30 Sep 2025.
Polgain Limited’s revenue fell 23% to £1m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with a loss of £509k and 21 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures” and is based in Norwich; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Norwich, East of England
- 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 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £2.6m | £1.4m | £1m |
| Cost of sales | −£1.7m | −£878k | −£727k |
| Gross profit | £901k | £483k | £317k |
| Operating profit | £127k | −£363k | −£491k |
| Profit before tax | £104k | −£385k | −£519k |
| Profit after tax | £80.8k | −£289k | −£509k |
| Profit (best available) | £80.8k | −£289k | −£509k |
| Employees (average) | 25 | 23 | 21 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 3.1% | −21.3% | −48.7% |
| Gross margin | 34.6% | 35.5% | 30.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £104k | £59.2k | £49.7k |
| Profit per employee | £3.2k | −£12.6k | −£24.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼47.8% | ▼23.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼458.1% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼8% | ▼8.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −48.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 30.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £49.7k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£24.2k
- 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
- ▼9%
- Now 21
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Saint Vincent Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Polgain Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (15)
- Peter Colby Commercials LimitedRev. £6m · Profit £945k
- Saint Vincent Operations LimitedRev. £5.9m · Profit £985k
- Norfolk & Suffolk Plant LimitedRev. £1.2m · Profit −£265k
- Norfolk & Suffolk Construction LimitedRev. £856k · Profit £75.3k
- Saint Vincent Developments LimitedRev. £795k · Profit −£189k
- Easystore 247 LimitedRev. £730k · Profit £114k
- Brand (Motor) Engineers LimitedRev. £126k · Profit £18.6k
- Brent Land Investments LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Collease Truck and Trailer Rentals LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Norfolk & Suffolk Aggregates LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Norfolk Truck & Van LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Norfolk Truck Rent LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Silver Darlings (Lowestoft) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Store-Easily 247 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Waveney Valley Smoked Products 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 30 Sep 2025 (profit −£509k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 14 Oct 2026
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