Unitape Limited
Registered name: UNITAPE LIMITED
Unitape Limited made £26.2m revenue and £2.3m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Unitape Limited’s revenue grew 44% to £26.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2.3m profit and 27 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other fabricated metal products” and is based in Eastbourne; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Eastbourne, South East
- Age
- 26 yrs · since 2000
- 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 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £16.2m | £18.2m | £26.2m |
| Cost of sales | −£14m | −£14.1m | −£21m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £4.1m | £5.2m |
| Operating profit | £843k | £2.1m | £2.8m |
| Profit before tax | £713k | £2.1m | £3.1m |
| Profit after tax | £562k | £1.7m | £2.3m |
| Profit (best available) | £562k | £1.7m | £2.3m |
| Employees (average) | 23 | 33 | 27 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 3.5% | 9.2% | 8.6% |
| Gross margin | 13.5% | 22.4% | 19.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £706k | £551k | £970k |
| Profit per employee | £24.4k | £50.6k | £83.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲12.1% | ▲44% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲197.2% | ▲35.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲43.5% | ▼18.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 8.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 19.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £970k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £83.8k
- 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
- ▼18%
- Now 27
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £2.3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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