Alert Communications Limited
Registered name: ALERT COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
Part of Bifm Investments Limited groupAlert Communications Limited made £10.6m revenue and £1.7m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Alert Communications Limited’s revenue fell 1% to £10.6m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £1.7m profit and 0 employees. The company is classified under “other telecommunications activities” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 26 yrs · since 2000
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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 immediate parent undertaking is Alert Communications (Holdings) Limited.”
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) | £11.9m | £10.7m | £10.6m |
| Cost of sales | £5.9m | £5.5m | £4.4m |
| Gross profit | £6m | £5.2m | £6.2m |
| Operating profit | £3.5m | £2.6m | £3.5m |
| Profit before tax | £1.6m | £1.1m | £2.2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £958k | £1.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £958k | £1.7m |
| Employees (average) | — | 0 | 0 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 9.4% | 8.9% | 15.8% |
| Gross margin | 50.6% | 48.6% | 58.6% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼10.1% | ▼1.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼14.5% | ▲75% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2.2m | £937k | £910k |
| Net assets | −£1.4m | −£110k | £1.8m |
| Fixed assets | £19.9m | £17.9m | £15.9m |
| Current assets | £11.4m | £8.4m | £9m |
| Debtors | £61.9k | £78.8k | £0 |
| Deferred income | £597k | £627k | £482k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 15.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 58.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 150.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0%
- 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 £1.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼3%
- Now £910k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- ▼23%
- Now £482k
- Fixed assets
- ▼11%
- Now £15.9m
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
- Bifm Investments Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Biif GP Limited75–100%
- Biif Holdco Limited75–100%
- Biif Issuerco Limited75–100%
- Biif Parentco Limited75–100%
- Biif Bidco Limited75–100%
- Alert Communications Group Holdings Limited75–100%
- Alert Communications (Holdings) Limited75–100%
- Alert Communications Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Alert Communications (2006) LimitedRev. — · Profit £554k
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 £1.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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