Networks Centre Limited
Registered name: NETWORKS CENTRE LIMITED
Part of Alcadon Group Ab (Publ) groupNetworks Centre Limited made £41.6m revenue and £2.8m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Networks Centre Limited’s revenue fell 7% to £41.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £2.8m profit and 63 employees. The company is classified under “other information technology service activities” and is based in Ashington; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Ashington, South East
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £44.7m | £41.6m |
| Cost of sales | £38m | £33.1m |
| Gross profit | £6.7m | £8.6m |
| Operating profit | £3.6m | £4.2m |
| Profit before tax | £3.2m | £3.9m |
| Profit after tax | £2.4m | £2.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.4m | £2.8m |
| Staff costs | £4.3m | £3.8m |
| Employees (average) | 62 | 63 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 5.4% | 6.7% |
| Gross margin | 15% | 20.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £722k | £661k |
| Profit per employee | £38.7k | £44.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲16.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £2.8m | £2.8m |
| Net assets | £7.5m | £10.2m |
| Fixed assets | £951k | £932k |
| Current assets | £25.1m | £23m |
| Debtors | £10.7m | £6.4m |
| Deferred income | £1m | £1.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £661k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £44.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 15.5%
- 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
- ▲37%
- Now £10.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼2%
- Now £2.8m
- Headcount
- ▲2%
- Now 63
- Deferred income
- ▲8%
- Now £1.1m
- Fixed assets
- ▼2%
- Now £932k
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
- Alcadon Group Ab (Publ) (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Networks Centre Holding Company Limited75–100%
- Networks Centre Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (5)
- Cable Centre LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Communications Centre International LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Networks Centre (Scotland) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Networks Centre Investments LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Xsicute 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 Dec 2024 (profit £2.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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