Elemental Resource Management Limited
Registered name: ELEMENTAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT LIMITED
Elemental Resource Management Limited made £28.3m revenue and a £5m loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Elemental Resource Management Limited’s revenue grew 45% to £28.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £5m and 17 employees. The company is classified under “recovery of sorted materials” and is based in Leeds; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 16 yrs · since 2010
- 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: “Elemental Luxembourg Sarl”
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&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £12m | £19.5m | £28.3m |
| Cost of sales | £9.4m | £18m | £26.9m |
| Gross profit | £2.6m | £1.5m | £1.3m |
| Operating profit | £1.4m | −£5.9m | −£4.6m |
| Profit before tax | £1.3m | −£839k | −£5m |
| Profit after tax | £1.2m | −£803k | −£5m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.2m | −£803k | −£5m |
| Employees (average) | 13 | 15 | 17 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 10.2% | −4.1% | −17.8% |
| Gross margin | 21.6% | 7.8% | 4.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £922k | £1.3m | £1.7m |
| Profit per employee | £93.8k | −£53.6k | −£296k |
| Cash conversion | 299.7% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲63% | ▲44.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼165.9% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲15.4% | ▲13.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £197k | £116k | £374k |
| Net assets | £1.2m | £5.4m | £379k |
| Fixed assets | £195k | £190k | £235k |
| Debtors | £2.3m | £3.6m | £316k |
| Deferred income | £187k | £304k | £597k |
| Cash from operations | £4.1m | −£2.2m | −£406k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −17.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 4.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.7m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£296k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.1%
- 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
- ▼93%
- Now £379k
- Cash at bank
- ▲224%
- Now £374k
- Headcount
- ▲13%
- Now 17
- Deferred income
- ▲96%
- Now £597k
- Fixed assets
- ▲24%
- Now £235k
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 31 Dec 2025 (profit −£5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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