Somerford Equipment Limited
Registered name: SOMERFORD EQUIPMENT LIMITED
Part of Swarco UK Holdings Limited groupSomerford Equipment Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Dec 2025 show net assets of £3.6m and 29 employees.
Somerford Equipment Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 showed net assets of £3.6m and 29 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other special-purpose machinery” and is based in Sandbach; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Sandbach, North West
- 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: “The immediate parent undertaking of the company is Hitex Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in”
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Somerford Equipment Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 29
- Net assets
- £3.6m
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 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £4.7m | £4.9m | — | — |
| Cost of sales | £3.1m | £3.3m | — | — |
| Gross profit | £1.6m | £1.6m | — | — |
| Operating profit | £954k | £929k | — | — |
| Profit before tax | £977k | £1m | — | — |
| Profit after tax | £781k | £794k | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | £781k | £794k | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 25 | 25 | 26 | 29 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 16.6% | 16.2% | — | — |
| Gross margin | 35% | 33.3% | — | — |
| Revenue per employee | £188k | £197k | — | — |
| Profit per employee | £31.3k | £31.7k | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲4.5% | — | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▲1.6% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲4% | ▲11.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £375k | £273k | £270k | £343k |
| Net assets | £3.2m | £4m | £3.5m | £3.6m |
| Fixed assets | £79.8k | £99.1k | £134k | £116k |
| Current assets | £4.2m | £4.5m | £3.7m | £4.3m |
| Debtors | £178k | £244k | £521k | £606k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
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
- ▲4%
- Now £3.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲27%
- Now £343k
- Headcount
- ▲12%
- Now 29
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼14%
- Now £116k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Swarco UK Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Hitex Holdings Limited75–100%
- Somerford Equipment Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (3)
- Swarco Hitex LtdRev. £24m · Profit £2.5m
- L. & R. Roadlines LimitedRev. £10.6m · Profit −£337k
- Texprint Surfacing LtdFigures 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, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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