True Lens Services Limited
Registered name: TRUE LENS SERVICES LIMITED
Part of True Lens Services (Holdings) Limited groupTrue Lens Services Limited made £5.2m revenue and £1.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
True Lens Services Limited’s revenue fell 27% to £5.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.1m profit. The company is classified under “manufacture of photographic and cinematographic equipment” and is based in Leicester; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leicester, East Midlands
- 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.
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) | £5.4m | £7.1m | £5.2m |
| Cost of sales | −£538k | −£748k | −£822k |
| Gross profit | £4.9m | £6.4m | £4.4m |
| Operating profit | £2.8m | £3.5m | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | £2.8m | £3.6m | £1.3m |
| Profit after tax | £2.3m | £2.8m | £1.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.3m | £2.8m | £1.1m |
| Employees (average) | — | — | — |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 42.7% | 39.2% | 21.1% |
| Gross margin | 90% | 89.5% | 84.2% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲32.6% | ▼27.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲21.8% | ▼60.8% |
| 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
- 21.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 84.2%
- 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
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- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
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- 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
- —
- Now —
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- True Lens Services (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- True Lens Services 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 accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £1.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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