Surflink Systems Limited
Registered name: SURFLINK SYSTEMS LIMITED
Surflink Systems Limited made £8.9m revenue and £626k profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025.
Surflink Systems Limited’s revenue fell 15% to £8.9m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £626k profit and 21 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale via mail order houses or via internet” and is based in Burton-on-Trent; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Burton-on-Trent, East Midlands
- 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 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £27.1m | £10.5m | £8.9m |
| Cost of sales | £22m | £8.5m | £6.7m |
| Gross profit | £5.2m | £1.9m | £2.1m |
| Operating profit | £505k | −£427k | £483k |
| Profit before tax | £192k | −£641k | £752k |
| Profit after tax | −£111k | −£495k | £626k |
| Profit (best available) | −£111k | −£495k | £626k |
| Staff costs | £1.2m | £577k | £462k |
| Employees (average) | 31 | 25 | 21 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −0.4% | −4.7% | 7.1% |
| Gross margin | 19.1% | 18.4% | 23.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £875k | £418k | £422k |
| Profit per employee | −£3.6k | −£19.8k | £29.8k |
| Cash conversion | −133.7% | — | −138.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▼15.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | ▼16% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £71.8k | £86.7k | £386k |
| Net assets | £3.7m | £3.1m | £3.6m |
| Fixed assets | £3m | £2.9m | £2.4m |
| Current assets | £6.1m | £3.4m | £3.2m |
| Debtors | £3.6k | £577 | £499 |
| Cash from operations | −£675k | −£958k | −£667k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 23.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £422k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £29.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −138.3%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 26.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- ▲17%
- Now £3.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲345%
- Now £386k
- Headcount
- ▼16%
- Now 21
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼20%
- Now £2.4m
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Jul 2025 (profit £626k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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