Red Arch Manufacturing Limited
Registered name: RED ARCH MANUFACTURING LIMITED
Part of Red Arch Holdings Limited groupRed Arch Manufacturing Limited made £7.7m revenue and a £8.3k loss in the year to 31 Jul 2025.
Red Arch Manufacturing Limited’s revenue fell 38% to £7.7m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with a loss of £8.3k and 52 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Daventry; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Daventry, East Midlands
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2022 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £9m | £12.4m | £7.7m |
| Cost of sales | — | £6.3m | £8.9m | £6m |
| Gross profit | — | £2.7m | £3.4m | £1.7m |
| Operating profit | — | £910k | £1.4m | −£1.9k |
| Profit before tax | — | £879k | £1.4m | −£12.1k |
| Profit after tax | — | £833k | £1.1m | −£8.3k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £833k | £1.1m | −£8.3k |
| Staff costs | — | £1.9m | £2.2m | £2.1m |
| Employees (average) | 45 | 53 | 63 | 52 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | 9.2% | 8.8% | −0.1% |
| Gross margin | — | 30.2% | 27.8% | 22.3% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £170k | £197k | £148k |
| Profit per employee | — | £15.7k | £17.3k | −£160 |
| Cash conversion | — | −12.4% | −147.8% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲37.4% | ▼37.8% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲30.9% | ▼100.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲17.8% | ▲18.9% | ▼17.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £499k | £355k | £1.5m | £820k |
| Net assets | £2.3m | £3.1m | £4.2m | £4.2m |
| Fixed assets | £986k | £1m | £1m | £955k |
| Current assets | £3.9m | £5.5m | £6.5m | £5m |
| Debtors | £1.1m | £3.1m | £1.6m | £537k |
| Deferred income | — | £213k | £316k | £268k |
| Cash from operations | — | −£113k | −£2.1m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £148k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£160
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 12.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 7%
- 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
- ▼0%
- Now £4.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼45%
- Now £820k
- Headcount
- ▼17%
- Now 52
- Deferred income
- ▼15%
- Now £268k
- Fixed assets
- ▼7%
- Now £955k
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
- Red Arch Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Red Arch Manufacturing Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Jul 2025 (profit −£8.3k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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