Gerda Security Products Limited
Registered name: GERDA SECURITY PRODUCTS LIMITED
Part of Gerda Security Holdings Limited groupGerda Security Products Limited made £24.9m revenue and £316k profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Gerda Security Products Limited’s revenue fell 3% to £24.9m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £316k profit and 127 employees. The company is classified under “other service activities” and is based in Bury ST. Edmunds; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bury ST. Edmunds, East of England
- Age
- 28 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 immediate and ultimate parent undertaking is Gerda Security Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales, which holds 100% of the Company's issued share capital. Copies of the con”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2022 | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 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) | £20m | £24.2m | £25.6m | £24.9m |
| Cost of sales | £13.9m | £16.4m | £18.1m | £17.2m |
| Gross profit | £6.1m | £7.8m | £7.5m | £7.7m |
| Operating profit | £397k | £699k | £649k | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | £370k | £644k | £507k | £509k |
| Profit after tax | £281k | £520k | £361k | £316k |
| Profit (best available) | £281k | £520k | £361k | £316k |
| Staff costs | £4.7m | £4.6m | £4.5m | £4.7m |
| Employees (average) | 161 | 143 | 131 | 127 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.4% | 2.1% | 1.4% | 1.3% |
| Gross margin | 30.3% | 32.3% | 29.3% | 31% |
| Revenue per employee | £124k | £169k | £195k | £196k |
| Profit per employee | £1.7k | £3.6k | £2.8k | £2.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲20.9% | ▲5.7% | ▼2.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲84.8% | ▼30.5% | ▼12.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼11.2% | ▼8.4% | ▼3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £574k | £828k | £1.1m | £873k |
| Net assets | £3.5m | £4m | £4.3m | £4.7m |
| Fixed assets | £1.7m | £1.8m | £1.8m | £1.8m |
| Current assets | £10.3m | £12.2m | £13.1m | £15.1m |
| Debtors | £1.1m | £1.4m | £1.2m | £887k |
| Deferred income | £693k | £285k | £1.6m | £1.4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £196k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 7.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 3.6%
- 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
- ▲7%
- Now £4.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼17%
- Now £873k
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 127
- Deferred income
- ▼14%
- Now £1.4m
- Fixed assets
- ▲0%
- Now £1.8m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Gerda Security Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Gerda Security Products Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (5)
- Expert Access Solutions LtdRev. — · Profit −£193k
- George Wood & Sons Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Gerda Facilities Services Ltd.Figures not disclosed
- GSP Fire Safety + Security LtdFigures not disclosed
- GSP Group LtdFigures 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 30 Apr 2025 (profit £316k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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