Gvav Limited
Registered name: GVAV LIMITED
Part of Gvav Group Ltd groupGvav Limited made £61.5m revenue and £2.9m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Gvav Limited’s revenue grew 17% to £61.5m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £2.9m profit and 159 employees. The company is classified under “installation of industrial machinery and equipment” and is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 25 yrs · since 2001
- 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 company is a wholly owned subsidiary of GVMM Group Limited. The company’s ultimate parent company became GVAV Group Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 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 | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £44.3m | £50.1m | £52.7m | £61.5m |
| Cost of sales | £32.4m | £36.4m | £37.2m | £43.8m |
| Gross profit | £11.9m | £13.7m | £15.5m | £17.6m |
| Operating profit | £3.4m | £3.6m | £3.7m | £3.8m |
| Profit before tax | £3.4m | £3.6m | £3.9m | £4.2m |
| Profit after tax | £2.8m | £3m | £3.1m | £2.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.8m | £3m | £3.1m | £2.9m |
| Staff costs | £6.7m | £7.5m | £8.4m | £9.9m |
| Employees (average) | 113 | 122 | 141 | 159 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 6.4% | 6% | 5.8% | 4.7% |
| Gross margin | 26.9% | 27.4% | 29.4% | 28.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £392k | £411k | £374k | £387k |
| Profit per employee | £25.1k | £24.7k | £21.9k | £18.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲13.2% | ▲5.3% | ▲16.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲5.9% | ▲2.4% | ▼5.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8% | ▲15.6% | ▲12.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £5.1m | £7.4m | £8.2m | £11.4m |
| Net assets | £4.8m | £4m | £4.1m | £4m |
| Fixed assets | £356k | £689k | £1.3m | £1.9m |
| Current assets | £16.2m | £16.4m | £15.4m | £20.5m |
| Debtors | £5.5m | £6.4m | £5.6m | £6.5m |
| Deferred income | £2.5m | £2.5m | £2.4m | £2.9m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 28.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £387k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £18.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 10.7%
- 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
- ▼2%
- Now £4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲39%
- Now £11.4m
- Headcount
- ▲13%
- Now 159
- Deferred income
- ▲22%
- Now £2.9m
- Fixed assets
- ▲45%
- Now £1.9m
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
- Gvav Group Ltd (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- GVMM Group Ltd75–100%
- Gvav Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
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 £2.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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