Avoca Industrial Technical Textiles Limited
Registered name: AVOCA INDUSTRIAL TECHNICAL TEXTILES LIMITED
Avoca Industrial Technical Textiles Limited made £15.3m revenue and £296k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Avoca Industrial Technical Textiles Limited’s revenue fell 34% to £15.3m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £296k profit and 20 employees. The company is classified under “finishing of textiles” and is based in Trafford Park; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Trafford Park, North West
- Age
- 27 yrs · since 1999
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £20.1m | £23.1m | £15.3m |
| Cost of sales | £17.6m | £20.4m | £13.5m |
| Gross profit | £2.5m | £2.7m | £1.8m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £1.5m | £657k |
| Profit before tax | £1.1m | £1.1m | £395k |
| Profit after tax | £864k | £861k | £296k |
| Profit (best available) | £864k | £861k | £296k |
| Staff costs | £823k | £886k | £933k |
| Employees (average) | 22 | 20 | 20 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.3% | 3.7% | 1.9% |
| Gross margin | 12.6% | 11.7% | 12% |
| Revenue per employee | £914k | £1.2m | £766k |
| Profit per employee | £39.3k | £43k | £14.8k |
| Cash conversion | −95.9% | −92.7% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲15% | ▼33.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼0.4% | ▼65.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼9.1% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £94.6k | £22.9k | £36.1k |
| Net assets | £7.1m | £7.6m | £3m |
| Fixed assets | £2.3m | £2.3m | £2.2m |
| Current assets | £7.4m | £7.3m | £2.4m |
| Debtors | £1.8m | £2m | £1.5m |
| Deferred income | £21.7k | £15.7k | £85.5k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.3m | −£1.4m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 12%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £766k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £14.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 14.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.5%
- 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
- ▼61%
- Now £3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲58%
- Now £36.1k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 20
- Deferred income
- ▲445%
- Now £85.5k
- Fixed assets
- ▼2%
- Now £2.2m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- Avoca Motor Products 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 Mar 2025 (profit £296k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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