Haste Limited
Registered name: HASTE LIMITED
Part of Tidal Mixer LLP groupHaste Limited made £12.8m revenue and £501k profit in the year to 29 Sep 2024. read from filing text
Haste Limited’s revenue grew 20% to £12.8m in the year to 29 Sep 2024, with £501k profit and 149 employees. The company is classified under “repair of electrical equipment” and is based in Kingston Upon Thames; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Kingston Upon Thames, London
- 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: “At the period end Iain Christie was the ultimate controlling party.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 29 Sep 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £10.6m | £12.8m |
| Cost of sales | — | £2.2m | £2.1m |
| Gross profit | — | £8.5m | £10.7m |
| Operating profit | — | £411k | £764k |
| Profit before tax | — | £398k | £744k |
| Profit after tax | — | £287k | £501k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £287k | £501k |
| Staff costs | — | £6m | £7.2m |
| Employees (average) | 143 | 146 | 149 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | 2.7% | 3.9% |
| Gross margin | — | 79.5% | 83.4% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £72.9k | £85.7k |
| Profit per employee | — | £2k | £3.4k |
| Cash conversion | — | −215% | −34.9% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲20% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲74.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2.1% | ▲2.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.9k | £37.6k | £112k |
| Net assets | £1.2m | £1.3m | £1.5m |
| Fixed assets | £1.3m | £1.4m | £1.2m |
| Current assets | £1.1m | £1.7m | £2.1m |
| Debtors | £895k | £1.3m | £1.3m |
| Cash from operations | — | −£884k | −£267k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 83.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £85.7k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −34.9%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 9.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 10.4%
- 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
- ▲20%
- Now £1.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲197%
- Now £112k
- Headcount
- ▲2%
- Now 149
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼10%
- Now £1.2m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Tidal Mixer LLPultimate parent75–100%
- Tidal Topco Limited75–100%
- Tidal Bidco Limited75–100%
- Tma Group Holdings Limited75–100%
- Haste Holdings Ltd75–100%
- Haste Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Link Instruments LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 29 Sep 2024 (profit £501k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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