Permavent Limited
Registered name: PERMAVENT LIMITED
Part of Greenhill Industrial Holdings Limited groupPermavent Limited made £17m revenue and £1.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Permavent Limited’s revenue grew 6% to £17m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.1m profit and 28 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment” and is based in Weymouth; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Weymouth, South West
- Age
- 23 yrs · since 2003
- 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 | 31 Dec 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) | — | £13m | £16.1m | £17m |
| Cost of sales | — | £9.2m | £11.2m | £11.7m |
| Gross profit | — | £3.8m | £4.9m | £5.3m |
| Operating profit | — | £1.6m | £1.9m | £1.6m |
| Profit before tax | — | £1.2m | £1.9m | £1.6m |
| Profit after tax | — | £988k | £1.6m | £1.1m |
| Profit (best available) | — | £988k | £1.6m | £1.1m |
| Staff costs | — | £1.3m | £1.8m | £2.2m |
| Employees (average) | 13 | 19 | 24 | 28 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | 7.6% | 9.8% | 6.6% |
| Gross margin | — | 29.6% | 30.3% | 31.3% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £685k | £670k | £608k |
| Profit per employee | — | £52k | £65.7k | £40k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲23.5% | ▲6% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲59.6% | ▼28.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲46.2% | ▲26.3% | ▲16.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £886k | £1.2m | £1.9m | £2.8m |
| Net assets | £1.1m | £2m | £3.6m | £4.3m |
| Fixed assets | £177k | £147k | £208k | £288k |
| Current assets | £4m | £5.4m | £8.5m | £10.6m |
| Debtors | £1.4m | £2.1m | £2.2m | £2.8m |
| Deferred income | — | £589k | £1.4m | £1.4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £608k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £40k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 7.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 16.3%
- 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
- ▲19%
- Now £4.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲47%
- Now £2.8m
- Headcount
- ▲17%
- Now 28
- Deferred income
- ▼3%
- Now £1.4m
- Fixed assets
- ▲38%
- Now £288k
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
- Greenhill Industrial Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Permavent Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Leto Composites 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit £1.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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