Craster Limited
Registered name: CRASTER LIMITED
Part of Craster Group Limited groupCraster Limited made £7.4m revenue and £869k profit in the year to 5 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Craster Limited’s revenue was £7.4m in the year to 5 Apr 2025, with £869k profit and 43 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- 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.
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 | 5 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £11.9m | £12.1m | £7.4m |
| Cost of sales | — | £6.4m | £6.1m | £3.5m |
| Gross profit | — | £5.5m | £6m | £3.8m |
| Operating profit | — | £1.4m | £114k | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | — | £1.4m | £132k | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | — | £1.2m | £61.6k | £869k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £1.2m | £61.6k | £869k |
| Staff costs | — | £2.5m | £2.9m | £1.6m |
| Employees (average) | 39 | 36 | 41 | 43 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | 9.8% | 0.5% | 11.8% |
| Gross margin | — | 46.1% | 49.6% | 51.9% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £331k | £295k | £171k |
| Profit per employee | — | £32.4k | £1.5k | £20.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲1.2% | — |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼94.7% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼7.7% | ▲13.9% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1m | £2.4m | £2.9m | £2.5m |
| Net assets | £3m | £3.8m | £3.2m | £3.8m |
| Fixed assets | £136k | £116k | £62.2k | £35.3k |
| Current assets | £4.4m | £5.5m | £7m | £7.2m |
| Debtors | £689k | £622k | £1.9m | £1.8m |
| Deferred income | — | £696k | £699k | £742k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 11.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 51.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £171k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £20.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 10.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 24.1%
- 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 £3.8m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £2.5m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 43
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £742k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £35.3k
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
- Craster Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Craster 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 5 Apr 2025 (profit £869k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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