Ortel Limited
Registered name: ORTEL LIMITED
Part of Chawda Holdings Limited groupOrtel Limited made £12.3m revenue and £2m profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025. read from filing text
Ortel Limited’s revenue was £12.3m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £2m profit and 102 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale of mobile telephones” and is based in Gloucester,; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Gloucester,, South 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 ultimate parent company is Chawda Holdings Ltd, a company incorporated in the UK. Ortel Limited is under the control of the directors.”
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 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £8.6m | £12.3m |
| Cost of sales | £8.2m | £9m |
| Gross profit | £428k | £3.3m |
| Operating profit | −£78.8k | £2.1m |
| Profit before tax | −£61k | £2.2m |
| Profit after tax | −£61k | £2m |
| Profit (best available) | −£61k | £2m |
| Staff costs | £2m | £4.7m |
| Employees (average) | 76 | 102 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −0.7% | 16% |
| Gross margin | 5% | 26.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £113k | £121k |
| Profit per employee | −£803 | £19.2k |
| Cash conversion | — | −92.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £1.9m | £3.9m |
| Net assets | −£1.1m | £877k |
| Fixed assets | £53.7k | £41k |
| Current assets | £5.1m | £7.4m |
| Debtors | £3m | £3.2m |
| Deferred income | £30.2k | £1.5k |
| Cash from operations | −£360k | −£2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 16%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 26.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £121k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £19.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −92.8%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 26.4%
- 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 £877k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £3.9m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 102
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £1.5k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £41k
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
- Chawda Holdings Limited (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Ortel 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 £2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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