Complex Cold Forming Limited
Registered name: COMPLEX COLD FORMING LIMITED
Complex Cold Forming Limited made £10.2m revenue and £204k profit in the year to 30 Nov 2024.
Complex Cold Forming Limited’s revenue was £10.2m in the year to 30 Nov 2024, with £204k profit and 69 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles” and is based in Wednesbury; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wednesbury, West Midlands
- Age
- 17 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 | 30 Nov 2023 | 30 Nov 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7.7m | £10.2m |
| Cost of sales | £5.2m | £7m |
| Gross profit | £2.5m | £3.2m |
| Operating profit | £552k | £597k |
| Profit before tax | £257k | £99.4k |
| Profit after tax | £335k | £204k |
| Profit (best available) | £335k | £204k |
| Staff costs | £2.3m | £3.3m |
| Employees (average) | 62 | 69 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 4.4% | 2% |
| Gross margin | 32.5% | 31.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £123k | £148k |
| Profit per employee | £5.4k | £3k |
| Cash conversion | 25% | 103.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £534 | £9.2k |
| Net assets | £1.6m | £1.8m |
| Fixed assets | £3.5m | £3m |
| Current assets | £4.8m | £5.4m |
| Debtors | £1.8m | £1.9m |
| Deferred income | £352k | £179k |
| Cash from operations | £138k | £618k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £148k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 103.5%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 29.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 18.4%
- 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
- —
- Now £1.8m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £9.2k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 69
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £179k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £3m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Nov 2024 (profit £204k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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