Shilayan Automotive UK Limited
Registered name: SHILAYAN AUTOMOTIVE UK LIMITED
Shilayan Automotive UK Limited made £2.3m revenue and a £197k loss in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Shilayan Automotive UK Limited’s revenue fell 4% to £2.3m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with a loss of £197k and 12 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles” and is based in Burnley; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Burnley, North West
- Age
- 20 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 ultimate controlling parent company is Setco Automotive Limited, a company which is registered in India. There is no one controlling party of this company.”
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&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £2.5m | £2.3m | £2.3m |
| Cost of sales | £1.8m | £1.5m | £1.4m |
| Gross profit | £736k | £882k | £841k |
| Operating profit | −£377k | −£165k | — |
| Profit before tax | −£377k | −£165k | −£197k |
| Profit after tax | −£377k | −£165k | −£197k |
| Profit (best available) | −£377k | −£165k | −£197k |
| Staff costs | £507k | £461k | £451k |
| Employees (average) | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −15% | −7% | −8.7% |
| Gross margin | 29.3% | 37.5% | 37.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £209k | £196k | £189k |
| Profit per employee | −£31.4k | −£13.7k | −£16.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼6.4% | ▼3.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £276k | £311k | £79.4k |
| Net assets | £1.2m | £1m | £806k |
| Fixed assets | £3m | £3m | £2.5m |
| Current assets | £4.8m | £1.8m | £1.6m |
| Debtors | £497k | £513k | £345k |
| Deferred income | £95k | £113k | £78k |
| Cash from operations | £37.5k | −£66.1k | £724k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data May 2024 | Accounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −8.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 37.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £189k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£16.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 111.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 15.2%
- 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
- ▼20%
- Now £806k
- Cash at bank
- ▼74%
- Now £79.4k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 12
- Deferred income
- ▼31%
- Now £78k
- Fixed assets
- ▼17%
- Now £2.5m
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 Mar 2025 (profit −£197k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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