Purple Surgical Manufacturing Limited
Registered name: PURPLE SURGICAL MANUFACTURING LIMITED
Part of Purple Surgical Holdings Limited groupPurple Surgical Manufacturing Limited made £10.9m revenue and a £3m loss in the year to 30 Jun 2025. read from filing text
Purple Surgical Manufacturing Limited’s revenue fell 3% to £10.9m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with a loss of £3m and 97 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Shenley; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Shenley, East of England
- Age
- 24 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 parent company is Purple Surgical Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in England whose registered office is 2”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 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) | £10.4m | £11.6m | £11.2m | £10.9m |
| Cost of sales | £9.8m | £10.8m | £10.8m | £11.5m |
| Gross profit | £631k | £792k | £361k | −£587k |
| Operating profit | £7.4m | −£961k | −£1.8m | −£3m |
| Profit before tax | £7.4m | −£970k | −£1.8m | −£3m |
| Profit after tax | £5.9m | −£1m | −£1.8m | −£3m |
| Profit (best available) | £5.9m | −£1m | −£1.8m | −£3m |
| Staff costs | £2.4m | £3m | £2.7m | £2.9m |
| Employees (average) | 103 | 109 | 95 | 97 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 57.1% | −8.8% | −16.1% | −27.9% |
| Gross margin | 6.1% | 6.8% | 3.2% | −5.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £101k | £106k | £118k | £112k |
| Profit per employee | £57.7k | −£9.4k | −£19k | −£31.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲11.3% | ▼3.4% | ▼2.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼117.2% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5.8% | ▼12.8% | ▲2.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £79.5k | £103k | £50.3k | £26.7k |
| Net assets | −£7.1m | −£8.1m | −£9.9m | −£13m |
| Fixed assets | £2.7m | £3.4m | £3.9m | £4.3m |
| Current assets | £11.2m | £13.7m | £11.9m | £12.4m |
| Debtors | £94.8k | £27.2k | £50.5k | £10.7k |
| Deferred income | £118k | £103k | £79.8k | £550k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −27.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- −5.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £112k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£31.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 39.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- 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
- —
- Now −£13m
- Cash at bank
- ▼47%
- Now £26.7k
- Headcount
- ▲2%
- Now 97
- Deferred income
- ▲590%
- Now £550k
- Fixed assets
- ▲10%
- Now £4.3m
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
- Purple Surgical Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Purple Surgical Manufacturing Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Chartuseful LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Purple Surgical International LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit −£3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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