Tpbi UK Limited
Registered name: TPBI UK LIMITED
Part of Tpbi International Company Limited groupTpbi UK Limited made a £138k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025 (revenue not disclosed).
Tpbi UK Limited reported a loss of £138k in the year to 31 Dec 2025; its revenue was not disclosed. It had 70 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of corrugated paper and paperboard, sacks and bags” and is based in Newcastle Under Lyme; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Newcastle Under Lyme, West Midlands
- Age
- 24 yrs · since 2002
- 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 has one shareholder, being TPBI International Company Limited (whose ultimate parent undertaking and controlling party is TPBI Public Company Limited), which is registered in Thailand.”
Key figures
This company published its profit but not its turnover, so revenue and margins are not disclosed. We never estimate them.
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&L | Full P&L | Profit only | Profit only |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £18m | £17.9m | — | — |
| Cost of sales | £13.7m | £13.4m | £11.7m | £10.8m |
| Gross profit | £4.3m | £4.6m | — | — |
| Operating profit | £319k | £646k | — | — |
| Profit before tax | £6.8k | £42.2k | £572k | −£58.4k |
| Profit after tax | £6.8k | £42.2k | £453k | −£138k |
| Profit (best available) | £6.8k | £42.2k | £453k | −£138k |
| Staff costs | £3m | £2.9m | £2.3m | £2.4m |
| Employees (average) | 105 | 81 | 69 | 70 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 0% | 0.2% | — | — |
| Gross margin | 23.8% | 25.5% | — | — |
| Revenue per employee | £171k | £222k | — | — |
| Profit per employee | £64 | £521 | £6.6k | −£2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼0% | — | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▲524.7% | ▲972.6% | ▼130.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼22.9% | ▼14.8% | ▲1.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £825k | £516k | £468k | £724k |
| Net assets | £2.5m | £2.5m | £3m | £2.8m |
| Fixed assets | £7.5m | £6.9m | £6.2m | £5.3m |
| Current assets | £7.3m | £5.4m | £4.5m | £4.2m |
| Debtors | £3.3m | £2.6m | £1.9m | £1.2m |
| Deferred income | — | — | £194k | £192k |
| 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
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- ▼5%
- Now £2.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▲55%
- Now £724k
- Headcount
- ▲1%
- Now 70
- Deferred income
- ▼1%
- Now £192k
- Fixed assets
- ▼14%
- Now £5.3m
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
- Tpbi International Company Limited (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Tpbi 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 2025 (profit −£138k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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