Talascend Limited
Registered name: TALASCEND LIMITED
Part of First Technical Recruitment Limited groupTalascend Limited made £71.7m revenue and £1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Talascend Limited’s revenue fell 6% to £71.7m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1m profit and 303 employees. The company is classified under “temporary employment agency activities” and is based in Warrington; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Warrington, North West
- Age
- 25 yrs · since 2001
- 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”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 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) | £70.4m | £78.1m | £76.2m | £71.7m |
| Cost of sales | £68.4m | £76m | £74.1m | £69.9m |
| Gross profit | £2.1m | £2.1m | £2.1m | £1.9m |
| Operating profit | £1.4m | £1.4m | £1.6m | £1.5m |
| Profit before tax | £1.4m | £1.4m | £1.3m | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | £2.1m | £1m | £989k | £1m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.1m | £1m | £989k | £1m |
| Staff costs | £43.9m | £45.8m | £43.7m | £43.6m |
| Employees (average) | 347 | 404 | 361 | 303 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 3% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.4% |
| Gross margin | 2.9% | 2.7% | 2.7% | 2.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £203k | £193k | £211k | £237k |
| Profit per employee | £6.1k | £2.5k | £2.7k | £3.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲10.9% | ▼2.5% | ▼5.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼52.5% | ▼2.3% | ▲2.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲16.4% | ▼10.6% | ▼16.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.2m | £756k | £834k | £1m |
| Net assets | £5.3m | £4.4m | £3.3m | £3.4m |
| Fixed assets | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Current assets | £11.4m | £12.3m | £12.7m | £11.5m |
| Debtors | £5.5m | £7.9m | £6.6m | £6.5m |
| Deferred income | £1.3m | £1m | £960k | £1.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 2.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £237k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9%
- 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
- ▲1%
- Now £3.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲23%
- Now £1m
- Headcount
- ▼16%
- Now 303
- Deferred income
- ▲10%
- Now £1.1m
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £0
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
- First Technical Recruitment Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Lema Holdings Limited75–100%
- Talascend Holdings Limited75–100%
- Talascend Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Primis Accounting Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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