BWS 2025 Ltd.
Registered name: BWS 2025 LTD.
Part of Bws Holdings (Uk) Limited groupBWS 2025 Ltd. made £20.4m revenue and a £725k loss in the year to 31 Mar 2024.
BWS 2025 Ltd.’s revenue was £20.4m in the year to 31 Mar 2024, with a loss of £725k and 126 employees. The company is classified under “recovery of sorted materials” and is based in Leicester; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Liquidation
- Location
- Leicester, East 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2022 | 31 Mar 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14m | £20.4m |
| Cost of sales | £10.2m | £14.9m |
| Gross profit | £3.8m | £5.6m |
| Operating profit | £434k | −£500k |
| Profit before tax | £161k | −£883k |
| Profit after tax | −£41.2k | −£725k |
| Profit (best available) | −£41.2k | −£725k |
| Staff costs | £4m | £6.4m |
| Employees (average) | 138 | 126 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −0.3% | −3.5% |
| Gross margin | 27.3% | 27.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £102k | £162k |
| Profit per employee | −£298 | −£5.8k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £8.2k | £8.3k |
| Net assets | £1.2m | £447k |
| Fixed assets | £5.5m | £3m |
| Current assets | £3.4m | £5.3m |
| Debtors | £2m | £2.2m |
| Deferred income | £322k | £782k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −3.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 27.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £162k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£5.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 14.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 10.6%
- 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 £447k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £8.3k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 126
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £782k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £3m
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
- Bws Holdings (Uk) Limited (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- BWS 2025 Ltd.this 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 Mar 2024 (profit −£725k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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