7.4 Limited
Registered name: 7.4 LIMITED
Part of Amiculum Limited group7.4 Limited made £4.6m revenue and £434k profit in the year to 31 May 2024. read from filing text
7.4 Limited’s revenue grew 2% to £4.6m in the year to 31 May 2024, with £434k profit and 30 employees. The company is classified under “public relations and communications activities” and is based in Bollington; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bollington, 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's immediate and ultimate parent company is AMICULUM Limited, a company registered in England and Wales.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 May 2022 | 31 May 2023 | 31 May 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £5.3m | £4.5m | £4.6m |
| Cost of sales | £793k | £789k | £319k |
| Gross profit | £4.5m | £3.7m | £4.3m |
| Profit before tax | £839k | £187k | £531k |
| Profit after tax | £674k | £148k | £434k |
| Profit (best available) | £674k | £148k | £434k |
| Employees (average) | 31 | 31 | 30 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 12.7% | 3.3% | 9.4% |
| Gross margin | 85.1% | 82.6% | 93.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £172k | £146k | £154k |
| Profit per employee | £21.7k | £4.8k | £14.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼14.8% | ▲2.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼78% | ▲192.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▼3.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £877k | £127k | £621k |
| Net assets | £1.1m | £720k | £654k |
| Fixed assets | £81.9k | £72.4k | £61k |
| Current assets | £2.4m | £1.7m | £1.6m |
| Debtors | £798k | £445k | £543k |
| Deferred income | £711k | £437k | £412k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 93.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £154k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £14.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 8.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11.7%
- 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
- ▼9%
- Now £654k
- Cash at bank
- ▲389%
- Now £621k
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 30
- Deferred income
- ▼6%
- Now £412k
- Fixed assets
- ▼16%
- Now £61k
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
- Amiculum Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- 7.4 Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (7)
- Amiculum Business Services LimitedRev. £18m · Profit £1.3m
- Amiculum Consulting LimitedRev. £10.2m · Profit £772k
- Mudskipper Business LimitedRev. £8.1m · Profit £1.5m
- Delta KN LimitedRev. £4.7m · Profit £166k
- Amiculum Digital LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Comradis LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seques 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 May 2024 (profit £434k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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