Apt-Skidata Limited
Registered name: APT-SKIDATA LIMITED
Part of Swarco UK Holdings Limited groupApt-Skidata Limited made £12.5m revenue and £1.3m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Apt-Skidata Limited’s revenue grew 1% to £12.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £1.3m profit and 58 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other special-purpose machinery” and is based in Hemel Hempstead; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Hemel Hempstead, South East
- 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 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £12.3m | £12.5m |
| Cost of sales | £8.6m | £8.7m |
| Gross profit | £3.8m | £3.8m |
| Operating profit | £1.5m | £1.7m |
| Profit before tax | £1.5m | £1.7m |
| Profit after tax | £1.2m | £1.3m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.2m | £1.3m |
| Staff costs | £3.7m | £3.8m |
| Employees (average) | 61 | 58 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 9.4% | 10.5% |
| Gross margin | 30.7% | 30.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £202k | £215k |
| Profit per employee | £18.9k | £22.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲1.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲13.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £936k | £985k |
| Net assets | £760k | £760k |
| Fixed assets | £778k | £886k |
| Current assets | £4.7m | £5.1m |
| Debtors | £1.5m | £1.8m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 10.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 30.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £215k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £22.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 7.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.1%
- 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
- 0%
- Now £760k
- Cash at bank
- ▲5%
- Now £985k
- Headcount
- ▼5%
- Now 58
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲14%
- Now £886k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Swarco UK Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Swarco UK Limited50–75%
- Apt-Skidata Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Swarco Smart Charging LtdRev. £24.3m · Profit −£19m
Minority corporate shareholders
- Assa Abloy Ab (registered outside the UK register) 25–50%
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit £1.3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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