Solutus Advisors Limited
Registered name: SOLUTUS ADVISORS LIMITED
Part of Knowlesway Limited groupSolutus Advisors Limited made £2.6m revenue and £355k profit in the year to 31 Jan 2025. read from filing text
Solutus Advisors Limited’s revenue fell 48% to £2.6m in the year to 31 Jan 2025, with £355k profit and 25 employees. The company is classified under “security and commodity contracts dealing activities” and is based in Chorley; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Chorley, North West
- Age
- 16 yrs · since 2010
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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 company is a wholly owned subsidiary of BG Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in Jersey. The ultimate parent company is Knowlesway Limited.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £5m | £2.6m |
| Cost of sales | £2.2m | £93.3k |
| Gross profit | £2.8m | £2.5m |
| Operating profit | £817k | £296k |
| Profit before tax | £824k | £355k |
| Profit after tax | £824k | £355k |
| Profit (best available) | £824k | £355k |
| Employees (average) | 30 | 25 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 16.4% | 13.5% |
| Gross margin | 56% | 96.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £168k | £105k |
| Profit per employee | £27.5k | £14.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼47.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼56.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼16.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £583k | £436k |
| Net assets | £2.5m | £2.8m |
| Current assets | £4.9m | £4.3m |
| Debtors | £1.2m | £383k |
| Deferred income | £1.3m | £770k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 13.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 96.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £105k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £14.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 29.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.6%
- 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
- ▲14%
- Now £2.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼25%
- Now £436k
- Headcount
- ▼17%
- Now 25
- Deferred income
- ▼40%
- Now £770k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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
- Knowlesway Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Fi Property Group Limited75–100%
- Solutus Advisors Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Maplesudden LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (6)
- Fi Facilities Management LimitedRev. £23.1m · Profit £2.1m
- Fi Real Estate Management LimitedRev. £18.1m · Profit £1.4m
- Botany Bay Asset Management LimitedRev. £4.4m · Profit £113k
- Toys "R" US Properties (UK) LimitedRev. £0 · Profit −£26.7k
- Bollinway Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- First Investments LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Jan 2025 (profit £355k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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