Tew Plus Limited
Registered name: TEW PLUS LIMITED
Part of L.B. Foster Rail Technologies (UK) Limited groupTew Plus Limited made £18.1m revenue and £228k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Tew Plus Limited’s revenue grew 57% to £18.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £228k profit and 37 employees. The company is classified under “wired telecommunications activities” and is based in Newcastle Upon Tyne; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, North East
- 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 immediate parent company is”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £16.6m | £11.5m | £18.1m |
| Cost of sales | £16.8m | £15.9m | £15.9m |
| Gross profit | −£128k | −£4.4m | £2.2m |
| Operating profit | −£2.3m | −£8.9m | £228k |
| Profit before tax | −£2.3m | −£8.9m | £228k |
| Profit after tax | −£2.2m | −£8.9m | £228k |
| Profit (best available) | −£2.2m | −£8.9m | £228k |
| Staff costs | £2.1m | £1.9m | £1.5m |
| Employees (average) | 44 | 39 | 37 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −13.3% | −77% | 1.3% |
| Gross margin | −0.8% | −38.2% | 12.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £378k | £295k | £488k |
| Profit per employee | −£50.4k | −£227k | £6.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼30.8% | ▲57% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼11.4% | ▼5.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £38.4k | £0 | — |
| Net assets | £9.1m | £271k | £499k |
| Fixed assets | £0 | £0 | £4.4k |
| Current assets | £18.5m | £13.1m | £8.8m |
| Debtors | £1.1m | £933k | £2m |
| Deferred income | £1.6m | £3.3m | £598k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 12.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £488k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11.1%
- 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
- ▲84%
- Now £499k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼5%
- Now 37
- Deferred income
- ▼82%
- Now £598k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £4.4k
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
- L.B. Foster Rail Technologies (UK) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Tew Engineering Limited75–100%
- Tew Plus 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 2024 (profit £228k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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