CG Support Services Limited
Registered name: CG SUPPORT SERVICES LIMITED
Part of CG Support Services Limited groupCG Support Services Limited made £33.9m revenue and £3.5m profit in the year to 31 Jan 2025. read from filing text
CG Support Services Limited’s revenue grew 3% to £33.9m in the year to 31 Jan 2025, with £3.5m profit and 102 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale of textiles in specialised stores” and is based in Manchester; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Manchester, North West
- 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: “CG Support Services Limited is controlled by an Employee Ownership Trust, which owns 70% of the company, giving all employees an indirect stake in the business in perpetuity. The trustee board of dire”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jan 2023 | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £26.4m | £33m | £33.9m |
| Cost of sales | £18m | £21.8m | £21.7m |
| Gross profit | £8.4m | £11.3m | £12.2m |
| Operating profit | £2.9m | £4.2m | £4.5m |
| Profit before tax | £2.9m | £4.2m | £4.5m |
| Profit after tax | £2.4m | £3.2m | £3.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.4m | £3.2m | £3.5m |
| Staff costs | £1.5m | £1.6m | £1.9m |
| Employees (average) | 111 | 102 | 102 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 9% | 9.7% | 10.3% |
| Gross margin | 31.9% | 34.1% | 36% |
| Revenue per employee | £238k | £324k | £332k |
| Profit per employee | £21.3k | £31.2k | £34.2k |
| Cash conversion | −148.6% | −72% | −119.9% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲25.2% | ▲2.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲34.8% | ▲9.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼8.1% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2.3m | £2.4m | £4.4m |
| Net assets | £2.5m | £3.8m | £5m |
| Current assets | £11m | £12.1m | £16.1m |
| Debtors | £6.2m | £6.5m | £8m |
| Deferred income | £284k | £270k | £237k |
| Cash from operations | −£4.4m | −£3m | −£5.4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 10.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 36%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £332k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £34.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −119.9%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 23.6%
- 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
- ▲31%
- Now £5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲86%
- Now £4.4m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 102
- Deferred income
- ▼12%
- Now £237k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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
- CG Support Services Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- CGSS Eot Limited50–75%
- CG Support Services Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- CGSS Eot 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 Jan 2025 (profit £3.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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