Adlib Audio Limited
Registered name: ADLIB AUDIO LIMITED
Part of A Square Company Holdings Limited groupAdlib Audio Limited made £30.3m revenue and £1.6m profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025.
Adlib Audio Limited’s revenue grew 7% to £30.3m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £1.6m profit and 217 employees. The company is classified under “support activities to performing arts” and is based in Prescot; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Prescot, North West
- Age
- 28 yrs · since 1998
- 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 Apr 2022 | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit only | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £24.1m | £28.4m | £30.3m |
| Cost of sales | — | £12.8m | £15.1m | £15.5m |
| Gross profit | — | £11.3m | £13.3m | £14.7m |
| Operating profit | — | £3m | £2.3m | £3m |
| Profit before tax | — | £2.4m | £1.4m | £2.2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £2.1m | £1m | £1.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £2.1m | £1m | £1.6m |
| Staff costs | — | £7.2m | £8.7m | £9.9m |
| Employees (average) | 143 | 181 | 199 | 217 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | 8.9% | 3.6% | 5.4% |
| Gross margin | — | 46.8% | 46.7% | 48.7% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £133k | £143k | £139k |
| Profit per employee | £7.6k | £11.8k | £5.1k | £7.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲18% | ▲6.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲96.8% | ▼52.1% | ▲60% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲26.6% | ▲9.9% | ▲9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2.7m | £1.5m | £550k | £323k |
| Net assets | £3.5m | £5.2m | £7m | £8.5m |
| Fixed assets | £14.7m | £18.6m | £23m | £26.1m |
| Current assets | £6.3m | £7.9m | £6.6m | £8.7m |
| Debtors | £2.1m | £2.7m | £2.3m | £4.3m |
| Deferred income | £2.1m | £2.2m | £2.5m | £1.7m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 48.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £139k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £7.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 86.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.3%
- 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
- ▲21%
- Now £8.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼41%
- Now £323k
- Headcount
- ▲9%
- Now 217
- Deferred income
- ▼32%
- Now £1.7m
- Fixed assets
- ▲13%
- Now £26.1m
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
- A Square Company Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Adlib Audio Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Adlib Developments LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Triplex Productions 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 30 Apr 2025 (profit £1.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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