Weedon Corrugated Products Limited
Registered name: WEEDON CORRUGATED PRODUCTS LIMITED
Part of Zeus Packaging Investments (UK) Limited groupWeedon Corrugated Products Limited made £17.3m revenue and £485k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2023. read from filing text
Weedon Corrugated Products Limited’s revenue fell 9% to £17.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2023, with £485k profit and 103 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of corrugated paper and paperboard, sacks and bags” and is based in Cannock; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cannock, West Midlands
- Age
- 15 yrs · since 2011
- 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 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £19m | £17.3m |
| Cost of sales | £14.4m | £12.1m |
| Gross profit | £4.5m | £5.2m |
| Operating profit | £741k | £786k |
| Profit before tax | £616k | £634k |
| Profit after tax | £625k | £485k |
| Profit (best available) | £625k | £485k |
| Staff costs | £3.2m | £3.4m |
| Employees (average) | 102 | 103 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 3.3% | 2.8% |
| Gross margin | 24% | 30% |
| Revenue per employee | £186k | £168k |
| Profit per employee | £6.1k | £4.7k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼8.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼22.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £37.5k | £70.5k |
| Net assets | −£586k | −£101k |
| Fixed assets | £1.4m | £1.3m |
| Current assets | £4m | £2.9m |
| Debtors | £2.4m | £1.5m |
| Deferred income | £767k | £458k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 30%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £168k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 7.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 8.4%
- 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 −£101k
- Cash at bank
- ▲88%
- Now £70.5k
- Headcount
- ▲1%
- Now 103
- Deferred income
- ▼40%
- Now £458k
- Fixed assets
- ▼6%
- Now £1.3m
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
- Zeus Packaging Investments (UK) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Weedon Holdings Limited75–100%
- Weedon Corrugated Products Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Weedon Packaging Solution Centre LimitedRev. £20.3m · Profit £442k
- I2I Europe LimitedRev. — · Profit £46.6k
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 2023 (profit £485k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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