Sapphire Balconies Limited
Registered name: SAPPHIRE BALCONIES LIMITED
Part of Atw Holdings Limited groupSapphire Balconies Limited made £43.9m revenue and £3.8m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Sapphire Balconies Limited’s revenue fell 17% to £43.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £3.8m profit and 90 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures” and is based in Reading; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Reading, South East
- 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 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £53.1m | £43.9m |
| Cost of sales | £31m | £28.3m |
| Gross profit | £22.1m | £15.6m |
| Operating profit | £12.5m | £4.2m |
| Profit before tax | £12.7m | £4.4m |
| Profit after tax | £11.4m | £3.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £11.4m | £3.8m |
| Staff costs | £6.2m | — |
| Employees (average) | 74 | 90 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 21.5% | 8.7% |
| Gross margin | 41.6% | 35.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £718k | £487k |
| Profit per employee | £155k | £42.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼17.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼66.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲21.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £1.5m | £2.1m |
| Net assets | £10.9m | £11.2m |
| Fixed assets | £183k | £259k |
| Current assets | £20.7m | £20.3m |
| Debtors | £13.6m | £14.1m |
| Deferred income | £0 | £4.6k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 8.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 35.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £487k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £42.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 32.1%
- 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
- ▲3%
- Now £11.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲44%
- Now £2.1m
- Headcount
- ▲22%
- Now 90
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £4.6k
- Fixed assets
- ▲42%
- Now £259k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Atw Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Sapphire Balconies Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Innovast LimitedFigures 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 (profit £3.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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