Tomra Sorting Limited
Registered name: TOMRA SORTING LIMITED
Part of Tomra Sorting As groupTomra Sorting Limited made £10.7m revenue and £484k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Tomra Sorting Limited’s revenue fell 1% to £10.7m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £484k profit and 30 employees. The company is classified under “agents involved in the sale of machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft” and is based in Leicester; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leicester, East Midlands
- Age
- 20 yrs · since 2006
- 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 parent undertaking is Tomra Sorting AS, a company incorporated in Norway.”
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&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.1m | £9.6m | £10.8m | £10.7m |
| Cost of sales | £8.9m | £5.5m | £6.7m | £6.4m |
| Gross profit | £4.2m | £4.1m | £4.1m | £4.3m |
| Operating profit | £552k | £538k | −£29.2k | £565k |
| Profit before tax | £551k | £587k | £92.6k | £696k |
| Profit after tax | £422k | £543k | −£3.4k | £484k |
| Profit (best available) | £422k | £543k | −£3.4k | £484k |
| Staff costs | — | — | £2.5m | £1.9m |
| Employees (average) | 35 | 36 | 35 | 30 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 3.2% | 5.7% | 0% | 4.5% |
| Gross margin | 32.1% | 42.7% | 38.1% | 39.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £374k | £266k | £309k | £357k |
| Profit per employee | £12.1k | £15.1k | −£98 | £16.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼26.8% | ▲12.7% | ▼0.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲28.6% | ▼100.6% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2.9% | ▼2.8% | ▼14.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £376k | £2.4m | £4.5m | £4.2m |
| Net assets | £2.7m | £3.2m | £3.2m | £2.7m |
| Fixed assets | £52.4k | £10.7k | £6.1k | £33.4k |
| Current assets | £6.4m | £6.5m | £8.1m | £8.5m |
| Debtors | £2.2m | £2.1m | £1.7m | £3.2m |
| Deferred income | — | — | — | £2.8m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 39.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £357k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £16.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 26.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 30.2%
- 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
- ▼18%
- Now £2.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼6%
- Now £4.2m
- Headcount
- ▼14%
- Now 30
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £2.8m
- Fixed assets
- ▲451%
- Now £33.4k
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
- Tomra Sorting As (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Tomra Sorting Limitedthis 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 Dec 2025 (profit £484k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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