Paprec UK Limited
Registered name: PAPREC UK LIMITED
Part of Paprec International S.A groupPaprec UK Limited made £8.4m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025 (revenue not disclosed).
Paprec UK Limited reported £8.4m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025; its revenue was not disclosed. It had 47 employees. The company is classified under “activities of other holding companies” and is based in Sheffield; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 18 yrs · since 2007
- 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 company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Paprec International, a company incorporated in Switzerland, and the ultimate controlling company is Paprec Holding, a company incorporated in France, which”
Key figures
This company published its profit but not its turnover, so revenue and margins are not disclosed. We never estimate them.
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | No P&L | Profit only | Profit only |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £4.2m | £2.3m | — | — | — |
| Cost of sales | £2.7m | — | — | — | — |
| Gross profit | £1.5m | £1.6m | — | — | — |
| Operating profit | −£765k | −£227k | — | — | — |
| Profit after tax | — | — | — | −£3.1m | £8.4m |
| Profit (best available) | −£765k | −£227k | — | −£3.1m | £8.4m |
| Staff costs | £1.2m | £1.4m | — | £529k | £319k |
| Employees (average) | 14 | 18 | 10 | 9 | 47 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | −18.2% | −10% | — | — | — |
| Gross margin | 34.6% | 69.4% | — | — | — |
| Revenue per employee | £300k | £126k | — | — | — |
| Profit per employee | −£54.6k | −£12.6k | — | −£349k | £179k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼46% | — | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲28.6% | ▼44.4% | ▼10% | ▲422.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £186k | £604k | £89.3k | £985k | £4.7m |
| Net assets | £480k | £228k | −£944k | £21.4m | £19.2m |
| Fixed assets | — | £0 | £0 | £26.8m | £5.9m |
| Current assets | — | £899k | £1.1m | £3.2m | £8m |
| Debtors | — | £185k | £705 | £29.2k | £19.1k |
| Deferred income | — | — | — | £285k | £277k |
| Cash from operations | — | — | — | −£20.4m | £351k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £179k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- 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
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- ▼10%
- Now £19.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲377%
- Now £4.7m
- Headcount
- ▲422%
- Now 47
- Deferred income
- ▼3%
- Now £277k
- Fixed assets
- ▼78%
- Now £5.9m
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
- Paprec International S.A (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Paprec UK Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (7)
- Newlincs Development LimitedRev. £11.9m · Profit £3.2m
- Futura Energies UK LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Paprec Energies Cyclerval LimitedRev. — · Profit £269k
- Paprec Energies Glenfarg LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Paprec Energies Grimsby Operations LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Paprec Energies Recovery LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Paprec Energies UK Future 3 LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £8.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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