Orean Personal Care Limited
Registered name: OREAN PERSONAL CARE LIMITED
Orean Personal Care Limited made £35.8m revenue and a £616k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Orean Personal Care Limited’s revenue grew 25% to £35.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with a loss of £616k and 289 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other chemical products” and is based in Cleckheaton; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cleckheaton, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 18 yrs · since 2008
- Type
- Private Limited Company
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) | £31.6m | £28.7m | £35.8m |
| Cost of sales | £26.3m | £25.1m | £31.3m |
| Gross profit | £5.2m | £3.6m | £4.5m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | −£686k | −£452k |
| Profit before tax | £1m | −£996k | −£916k |
| Profit after tax | £887k | −£452k | −£616k |
| Profit (best available) | £887k | −£452k | −£616k |
| Employees (average) | 273 | 258 | 289 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 2.8% | −1.6% | −1.7% |
| Gross margin | 16.6% | 12.6% | 12.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £116k | £111k | £124k |
| Profit per employee | £3.2k | −£1.8k | −£2.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼9.1% | ▲24.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼151% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼5.5% | ▲12% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £46.3k | £107k | £138k |
| Net assets | £9m | £8.5m | £8.5m |
| Fixed assets | £3m | £2.6m | £2.4m |
| Current assets | £14.2m | £13.4m | £13.7m |
| Debtors | £8.7m | £5.6m | £4.9m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −1.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 12.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £124k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£2.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 6.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.8%
- 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
- ▲1%
- Now £8.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲29%
- Now £138k
- Headcount
- ▲12%
- Now 289
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼7%
- Now £2.4m
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit −£616k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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