Generator Power Limited
Registered name: GENERATOR POWER LIMITED
Generator Power Limited made £70.9m revenue and £711k profit in the year to 31 Oct 2025.
Generator Power Limited’s revenue fell 3% to £70.9m in the year to 31 Oct 2025, with £711k profit and 320 employees. The company is classified under “renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods” and is based in Normanton; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Normanton, Yorkshire and The Humber
- 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 Company is controlled by S K Cardwell.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Oct 2022 | 31 Oct 2023 | 31 Oct 2024 | 31 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £70.8m | £89.1m | £73.2m | £70.9m |
| Cost of sales | £53.2m | £69.3m | £54.7m | £51.5m |
| Gross profit | £17.6m | £19.8m | £18.5m | £19.4m |
| Operating profit | £4m | £3.6m | £2.7m | £2.9m |
| Profit before tax | £2.9m | £2.1m | £1.2m | £1m |
| Profit after tax | £2.3m | £1.5m | £889k | £711k |
| Profit (best available) | £2.3m | £1.5m | £889k | £711k |
| Staff costs | £13.1m | £13.8m | £15m | £16.4m |
| Employees (average) | 286 | 314 | 309 | 320 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 3.3% | 1.7% | 1.2% | 1% |
| Gross margin | 24.9% | 22.2% | 25.3% | 27.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £248k | £284k | £237k | £222k |
| Profit per employee | £8.1k | £4.8k | £2.9k | £2.2k |
| Cash conversion | 195.2% | 323.3% | 408.8% | 361.8% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲25.8% | ▼17.8% | ▼3.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼35.4% | ▼40.9% | ▼20.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲9.8% | ▼1.6% | ▲3.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £734k | £1.3m | £1.1m | £1.5m |
| Net assets | £12.1m | £12.6m | £13m | £13.2m |
| Fixed assets | £35.9m | £31m | £34.1m | £36.2m |
| Current assets | £31.1m | £23.3m | £22.8m | £25.3m |
| Debtors | £22.1m | £16.6m | £16.6m | £17.2m |
| Deferred income | £2m | £796k | £520k | £549k |
| Cash from operations | £7.8m | £11.7m | £11.1m | £10.3m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 27.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £222k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 361.8%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 51.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 24.3%
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now £13.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲37%
- Now £1.5m
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 320
- Deferred income
- ▲5%
- Now £549k
- Fixed assets
- ▲6%
- Now £36.2m
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 Oct 2025 (profit £711k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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