Mail Solutions UK Limited
Registered name: MAIL SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED
Part of Mail Solutions Trustees Limited groupMail Solutions UK Limited made £29.1m revenue and £622k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Mail Solutions UK Limited’s revenue fell 3% to £29.1m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £622k profit and 206 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of corrugated paper and paperboard, sacks and bags” and is based in Telford; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Telford, West Midlands
- Age
- 22 yrs · since 2004
- 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's ultimate parent company is Mail Solutions Group Limited, a company registered in England and Wales. The ultimate parent company's registered office is Halesfield 2, Telford, Shropshire, ”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £28.2m | £29.9m | £29.1m |
| Cost of sales | £24.1m | £24.1m | £23.2m |
| Gross profit | £4.1m | £5.8m | £5.8m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £956k | £796k |
| Profit before tax | £1m | £745k | £564k |
| Profit after tax | £948k | £679k | £622k |
| Profit (best available) | £948k | £679k | £622k |
| Staff costs | £5.2m | £7m | £7.6m |
| Employees (average) | 147 | 202 | 206 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 3.4% | 2.3% | 2.1% |
| Gross margin | 14.4% | 19.5% | 20% |
| Revenue per employee | £192k | £148k | £141k |
| Profit per employee | £6.4k | £3.4k | £3k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲5.9% | ▼2.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼28.4% | ▼8.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲37.4% | ▲2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £539k | £25k | £36k |
| Net assets | £7.7m | £8.3m | £9m |
| Fixed assets | £1.1m | £1.3m | £1.5m |
| Current assets | £14.6m | £15.5m | £16.4m |
| Debtors | £5.3m | £6.2m | £6.6m |
| Deferred income | £2m | £2.1m | £1.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £141k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 5.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 22.7%
- 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
- ▲7%
- Now £9m
- Cash at bank
- ▲44%
- Now £36k
- Headcount
- ▲2%
- Now 206
- Deferred income
- ▼41%
- Now £1.2m
- Fixed assets
- ▲9%
- 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
- Mail Solutions Trustees Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Mail Solutions Group Limited75–100%
- Mail Solutions UK Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (3)
- Great British Envelopes LtdFigures not disclosed
- Intrinsic Paper Straws LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Mail Solutions 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 Mar 2025 (profit £622k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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