Connect Chemicals (UK) Limited
Registered name: CONNECT CHEMICALS (UK) LIMITED
Part of Connect Chemicals Gmbh groupConnect Chemicals (UK) Limited made £12.9m revenue and £737k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Connect Chemicals (UK) Limited’s revenue grew 16% to £12.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £737k profit and 12 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of chemical products” and is based in Cheshire; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cheshire, North West
- 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 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £11.2m | £12.9m |
| Cost of sales | — | £8.8m | £10.6m |
| Gross profit | — | £2.4m | £2.3m |
| Operating profit | — | £1.3m | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | — | £1.1m | £984k |
| Profit after tax | — | £820k | £737k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £820k | £737k |
| Staff costs | — | £494k | £598k |
| Employees (average) | 10 | 13 | 12 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | 7.3% | 5.7% |
| Gross margin | — | 21.1% | 17.9% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £860k | £1.1m |
| Profit per employee | — | £63.1k | £61.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲15.6% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼10.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲30% | ▼7.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £232k | £1.3m | £2.6m |
| Net assets | £4.8m | £5.6m | £6m |
| Fixed assets | £96.1k | £79.9k | £56.9k |
| Current assets | £8.6m | £7.7m | £7.6m |
| Debtors | £2.3m | £1m | £1.6m |
| Deferred income | £60.6k | £52.1k | — |
| Source | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 17.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.1m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £61.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.1%
- 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
- ▲6%
- Now £6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲99%
- Now £2.6m
- Headcount
- ▼8%
- Now 12
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼29%
- Now £56.9k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Connect Chemicals Gmbh (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Connect Chemicals (UK) 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 Dec 2024 (profit £737k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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