Albany Products Limited
Registered name: ALBANY PRODUCTS LIMITED
Albany Products Limited made £68.4m revenue and £1.6m profit in the year to 31 Aug 2025. read from filing text
Albany Products Limited’s revenue fell 11% to £68.4m in the year to 31 Aug 2025, with £1.6m profit and 23 employees. The company is classified under “non-specialised wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco” and is based in Manchester; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Manchester, North West
- Age
- 24 yrs · since 2002
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Aug 2022 | 31 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Aug 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) | £71.1m | £77m | £76.8m | £68.4m |
| Cost of sales | £64m | £69.1m | £69.5m | £61.4m |
| Gross profit | £7.1m | £7.9m | £7.3m | £7m |
| Operating profit | £2.3m | £2.7m | £2m | £2.4m |
| Profit before tax | £2.3m | £2.5m | £1.8m | £2.2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.8m | £2m | £1.4m | £1.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.8m | £2m | £1.4m | £1.6m |
| Staff costs | £1.1m | £1.1m | £1.1m | £1.2m |
| Employees (average) | 21 | 22 | 23 | 23 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2.5% | 2.5% | 1.8% | 2.4% |
| Gross margin | 10% | 10.3% | 9.5% | 10.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £3.4m | £3.5m | £3.3m | £3m |
| Profit per employee | £84.9k | £88.8k | £59.6k | £71.2k |
| Cash conversion | −25.3% | −14.8% | −109.3% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲8.4% | ▼0.3% | ▼10.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲9.5% | ▼29.8% | ▲19.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲4.8% | ▲4.5% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3.7m | £3.6m | £1.2m | £362k |
| Net assets | £4.2m | £2.3m | £1.5m | £836k |
| Fixed assets | £2.4m | £2.4m | £2.6m | £2.6m |
| Current assets | £12.9m | £14.4m | £10.9m | £10.4m |
| Debtors | £3.6m | £4.9m | £4.5m | £3.9m |
| Deferred income | £142k | £59k | £184k | £89k |
| Cash from operations | −£590k | −£395k | −£2.2m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 10.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £3m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £71.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 5.7%
- 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
- ▼45%
- Now £836k
- Cash at bank
- ▼70%
- Now £362k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 23
- Deferred income
- ▼52%
- Now £89k
- Fixed assets
- ▼0%
- Now £2.6m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Aug 2025 (profit £1.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 25 Oct 2026
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