MLM Ltd
Registered name: MLM LTD
MLM Ltd made £8.6m revenue and £264k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
MLM Ltd’s revenue fell 57% to £8.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £264k profit and 7 employees. The company is classified under “recovery of sorted materials” and is based in Manchester; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Manchester, North West
- Age
- 21 yrs · since 2005
- 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 is under the control of its parent company America Chung Nam LLC, a company incorporated in California, USA”
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 | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £3.5m | £13.2m | £19.9m | £8.6m |
| Cost of sales | £3m | £12.6m | £18.9m | £7.8m |
| Gross profit | £484k | £612k | £1m | £855k |
| Operating profit | −£84.5k | −£6.1k | £158k | £266k |
| Profit before tax | −£84.3k | −£6.1k | £256k | £354k |
| Profit after tax | −£83.1k | −£5.4k | £207k | £264k |
| Profit (best available) | −£83.1k | −£5.4k | £207k | £264k |
| Staff costs | £425k | £466k | £584k | £593k |
| Employees (average) | 8 | 7 | 9 | 7 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | −2.4% | 0% | 1% | 3.1% |
| Gross margin | 13.9% | 4.6% | 5.1% | 9.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £435k | £1.9m | £2.2m | £1.2m |
| Profit per employee | −£10.4k | −£768 | £23k | £37.8k |
| Cash conversion | — | — | 8163% | 841.9% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲280% | ▲50.7% | ▼56.8% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▲27.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼12.5% | ▲28.6% | ▼22.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £177k | £480k | £13.5m | £11.3m |
| Net assets | £4.8m | £4.8m | £5m | £5.3m |
| Fixed assets | £7.3k | £4.2k | £5k | £41.6k |
| Current assets | £7.7m | £8.4m | £19.4m | £14.6m |
| Debtors | £0 | £3.6k | £11 | £10.3k |
| Deferred income | £182k | £327k | £521k | £173k |
| Cash from operations | £730k | −£304k | £12.9m | £2.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 9.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.2m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £37.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 841.9%
- 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
- 2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- 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
- ▲5%
- Now £5.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼17%
- Now £11.3m
- Headcount
- ▼22%
- Now 7
- Deferred income
- ▼67%
- Now £173k
- Fixed assets
- ▲733%
- Now £41.6k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £264k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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