K.d.e. Limited
Registered name: K.D.E. LIMITED
Part of Kde Holdings Limited groupK.d.e. Limited made £12.9m revenue and £240k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
K.d.e. Limited’s revenue grew 8% to £12.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £240k profit and 174 employees. The company is classified under “repair of electrical equipment” and is based in Runcorn; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Runcorn, North 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. From the filing: “There is no”
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 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £12.4m | £20m | £11.9m | £12.9m |
| Cost of sales | £9.6m | £15.3m | £9m | £9.2m |
| Gross profit | £2.9m | £4.7m | £2.9m | £3.7m |
| Operating profit | £895k | £1.3m | £605k | £453k |
| Profit before tax | £878k | £1.2m | £603k | £356k |
| Profit after tax | £723k | £853k | £470k | £240k |
| Profit (best available) | £723k | £853k | £470k | £240k |
| Staff costs | £5.5m | £8.9m | £5.6m | £6.6m |
| Employees (average) | 175 | 185 | 163 | 174 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5.8% | 4.3% | 3.9% | 1.9% |
| Gross margin | 22.9% | 23.4% | 24.6% | 28.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £71k | £108k | £73.1k | £74k |
| Profit per employee | £4.1k | £4.6k | £2.9k | £1.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | — | ▲8.1% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▼48.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | — | ▲6.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £119k | £219k | £53.5k | £206k |
| Net assets | £1.8m | £1.9m | £2m | £2m |
| Fixed assets | £828k | £921k | £846k | £1.5m |
| Current assets | £4.5m | £4.7m | £4.5m | £5.2m |
| Debtors | £1.5m | £1.9m | £1.8m | £1.8m |
| Deferred income | £139k | £120k | £97k | £180k |
| 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
- 1.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 28.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £74k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 11.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.7%
- 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
- ▲1%
- Now £2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲285%
- Now £206k
- Headcount
- ▲7%
- Now 174
- Deferred income
- ▲86%
- Now £180k
- Fixed assets
- ▲78%
- Now £1.5m
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
- Kde Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- K.d.e. 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 £240k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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