WHP Telecoms Limited
Registered name: WHP TELECOMS LIMITED
Part of Whistler Topco Limited groupWHP Telecoms Limited made £145m revenue and a £1.8m loss in the year to 31 May 2025.
WHP Telecoms Limited’s revenue fell 21% to £145m in the year to 31 May 2025, with a loss of £1.8m and 619 employees. The company is classified under “construction of utility projects for electricity and telecommunications” and is based in Warrington; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Warrington, 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 | 31 May 2023 | 31 May 2024 | 31 May 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £157m | £183m | £145m |
| Cost of sales | £138m | £163m | −£132m |
| Gross profit | £19.6m | £20.7m | £13.1m |
| Operating profit | £8.2m | £9.7m | −£579k |
| Profit before tax | £6.1m | £7.7m | −£2.1m |
| Profit after tax | £6.5m | £7m | −£1.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £6.5m | £7m | −£1.8m |
| Staff costs | £26.5m | £34.1m | — |
| Employees (average) | 564 | 660 | 619 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.1% | 3.8% | −1.3% |
| Gross margin | 12.5% | 11.3% | 9% |
| Revenue per employee | £279k | £278k | £234k |
| Profit per employee | £11.5k | £10.6k | −£2.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲16.5% | ▼21.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲8.4% | ▼125.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲17% | ▼6.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £3.7m | £7.6m | — |
| Net assets | £3.1m | £10.1m | — |
| Fixed assets | £1.9m | £2.2m | — |
| Current assets | £116m | £143m | — |
| Debtors | £9.9m | £16.1m | — |
| Deferred income | £40m | £61.2m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −1.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £234k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£2.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼6%
- Now 619
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Whistler Topco Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Whistler Midco Limited75–100%
- Whistler Bidco Limited75–100%
- Cooper Topco Limited75–100%
- Cooper Bidco Limited75–100%
- WHP (Holdings) Limited75–100%
- WHP Telecoms Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 May 2025 (profit −£1.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 14 Oct 2026
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