Mtrec Limited
Registered name: MTREC LIMITED
Part of Open Up Group Inc. groupMtrec Limited made £26.3m revenue and £530k profit in the year to 30 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Mtrec Limited’s revenue fell 3% to £26.3m in the year to 30 Mar 2025, with £530k profit and 118 employees. The company is classified under “temporary employment agency activities” and is based in Newcastle Upon Tyne; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, North East
- Age
- 20 yrs · since 2006
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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 ultimate controlling party is D Musgrave by virtue of being the majority shareholder.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 28 Mar 2021 | 27 Mar 2022 | 26 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 30 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £23.2m | £24.6m | £22.3m | £27.2m | £26.3m |
| Cost of sales | £20.1m | £21.2m | £18m | £22.5m | £21.7m |
| Gross profit | £3m | £3.4m | £4.2m | £4.8m | £4.6m |
| Operating profit | £583k | £387k | £1.9m | £1.1m | £814k |
| Profit before tax | £842k | £314k | £1.8m | £999k | £758k |
| Profit after tax | £714k | £187k | £1.6m | £717k | £530k |
| Profit (best available) | £714k | £187k | £1.6m | £717k | £530k |
| Staff costs | £2.9m | £7.6m | £5.6m | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 240 | 247 | 268 | 134 | 118 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 3.1% | 0.8% | 7% | 2.6% | 2% |
| Gross margin | 13.1% | 14% | 18.9% | 17.5% | 17.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £96.6k | £99.6k | £83.1k | £203k | £223k |
| Profit per employee | £3k | £759 | £5.8k | £5.3k | £4.5k |
| Cash conversion | — | — | 39.5% | −47.8% | −94.2% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲6.2% | ▼9.5% | ▲22.4% | ▼3.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼73.8% | ▲734% | ▼54.1% | ▼26.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2.9% | ▲8.5% | ▼50% | ▼11.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £6.2m | £2.7m | £2.8m | £1.9m | £1.4m |
| Net assets | £7.8m | −£1.3m | £291k | £2.6m | £2.7m |
| Fixed assets | £847k | £677k | £656k | £646k | £638k |
| Current assets | — | £6.9m | £7.9m | £6.6m | £6m |
| Debtors | — | £4.2m | £3.4m | £4.1m | £4.1m |
| Deferred income | — | — | £926k | £1.2m | £1.4m |
| Cash from operations | — | — | £758k | −£509k | −£767k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 17.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £223k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −94.2%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.2%
- 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
- ▲7%
- Now £2.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼25%
- Now £1.4m
- Headcount
- ▼12%
- Now 118
- Deferred income
- ▲11%
- Now £1.4m
- Fixed assets
- ▼1%
- Now £638k
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
- Open Up Group Inc. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Mtrec 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).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Mar 2025 (profit £530k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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