Fire Glass UK Limited
Registered name: FIRE GLASS UK LIMITED
Part of Technical Fire Safety Group Limited groupFire Glass UK Limited made £32.3m revenue and £2.7m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Fire Glass UK Limited’s revenue grew 3% to £32.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2.7m profit and 198 employees. The company is classified under “shaping and processing of flat glass” and is based in Haydock; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Haydock, North West
- Age
- 17 yrs · since 2008
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £30.8m | £31.4m | £32.3m |
| Cost of sales | £17.6m | £18m | £18.5m |
| Gross profit | £13.2m | £13.3m | £13.8m |
| Operating profit | £3.6m | £4m | £3.9m |
| Profit before tax | £3.5m | £3.9m | £3.8m |
| Profit after tax | £2.9m | £3m | £2.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.9m | £3m | £2.7m |
| Staff costs | £7m | £6.9m | £7.5m |
| Employees (average) | 212 | 196 | 198 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 9.2% | 9.6% | 8.5% |
| Gross margin | 42.8% | 42.5% | 42.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £146k | £160k | £163k |
| Profit per employee | £13.4k | £15.3k | £13.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲1.8% | ▲2.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲5.2% | ▼8.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼7.5% | ▲1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.1m | £277k | £75.9k |
| Net assets | £10.7m | £13.7m | £16.4m |
| Fixed assets | £2m | £1.9m | £1.3m |
| Current assets | £12.7m | £16.4m | £19.2m |
| Debtors | £5.1m | £5m | £4.8m |
| Deferred income | £1.1m | £1m | £775k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 8.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 42.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £163k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £13.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.8%
- 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
- ▲20%
- Now £16.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▼73%
- Now £75.9k
- Headcount
- ▲1%
- Now 198
- Deferred income
- ▼25%
- Now £775k
- Fixed assets
- ▼31%
- Now £1.3m
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
- Technical Fire Safety Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Pluto Midco Limited75–100%
- Saverto UK Limited75–100%
- Fire Glass UK Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (3)
- Pyroguard UK LimitedRev. £20.2m · Profit −£3.3k
- Mann McGowan Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Mann McGowan Ventilation Products 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 Dec 2025 (profit £2.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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