Lca Lights Camera Action Limited
Registered name: LCA LIGHTS CAMERA ACTION LIMITED
Part of A.c. Worldwide Group Limited groupLca Lights Camera Action Limited made £9.8m revenue and £821k profit in the year to 31 Jan 2025. read from filing text
Lca Lights Camera Action Limited’s revenue fell 32% to £9.8m in the year to 31 Jan 2025, with £821k profit and 7 employees. The company is classified under “agents specialized in the sale of other particular products” and is based in High Wycombe; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- High Wycombe, South East
- Age
- 27 yrs · since 1999
- 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 parent company and largest and smallest group in which”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jan 2022 | 31 Jan 2023 | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 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) | £17.2m | £17.8m | £14.3m | £9.8m |
| Cost of sales | £13.2m | £13.2m | £10.1m | £7.4m |
| Gross profit | £4.1m | £4.6m | £4.2m | £2.4m |
| Operating profit | £2.3m | £2.5m | £2.5m | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | £2.3m | £2.4m | £2.4m | £1.1m |
| Profit after tax | £1.9m | £1.9m | £1.9m | £821k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.9m | £1.9m | £1.9m | £821k |
| Staff costs | £1.3m | £1.6m | £1.3m | £938k |
| Employees (average) | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 11.1% | 10.7% | 13.1% | 8.4% |
| Gross margin | 23.6% | 26.1% | 29.4% | 24.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £2.5m | £2.5m | £2.4m | £1.4m |
| Profit per employee | £272k | £273k | £312k | £117k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3.2% | ▼19.5% | ▼31.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲0.1% | ▼1.9% | ▼56.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▼14.3% | ▲16.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.3m | £309k | £3.4m | £333k |
| Net assets | £3.7m | £4.1m | £6m | £6.5m |
| Fixed assets | £122k | £79.2k | £137k | £102k |
| Current assets | £7.5m | £8.9m | £7.3m | £9m |
| Debtors | £3m | £3.7m | £1.7m | £3.2m |
| Deferred income | £670k | £1.6m | £494k | £1.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 8.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 24.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.4m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £117k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 13.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 32.5%
- 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
- ▲8%
- Now £6.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼90%
- Now £333k
- Headcount
- ▲17%
- Now 7
- Deferred income
- ▲166%
- Now £1.3m
- Fixed assets
- ▼26%
- Now £102k
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.c. Worldwide Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Lca Lights Camera Action Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (14)
- A.c. Entertainment Technologies LimitedRev. £29.9m · Profit −£83.7k
- A.c. Lighting (Overseas) LimitedRev. £0 · Profit £474k
- A. C. Rigging LimitedFigures not disclosed
- A. C. Video LimitedFigures not disclosed
- A.c. Audio LimitedFigures not disclosed
- A.c. Lighting (Holdings) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- A.c. Lighting LimitedFigures not disclosed
- A.c. Special Projects LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ac Cables LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Chromaq International LtdFigures not disclosed
- Flashlight LimitedFigures not disclosed
- In-Motion LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Primarc (Marketing) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pro Uv Lamps 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 31 Jan 2025 (profit £821k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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