Whiteline (Group) Ltd
Registered name: WHITELINE (GROUP) LTD
Part of GCH Corporation Limited groupWhiteline (Group) Ltd made £25.6m revenue and £1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Whiteline (Group) Ltd’s revenue fell 2% to £25.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1m profit and 3 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in Eastbourne; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Eastbourne, South East
- Age
- 14 yrs · since 2011
- 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: “GCH Corporation Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £28m | £26.1m | £25.6m |
| Cost of sales | £19.2m | £16.8m | £16.4m |
| Gross profit | £8.8m | £9.3m | — |
| Operating profit | £1.6m | £1.3m | £1.4m |
| Profit before tax | £1.6m | £1.3m | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | £1.5m | £0 | £1m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.5m | £0 | £1m |
| Staff costs | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Employees (average) | 8 | 4 | 3 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 5.2% | 0% | 3.9% |
| Gross margin | 31.4% | 35.5% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £3.5m | £6.5m | £8.5m |
| Profit per employee | £181k | £0 | £333k |
| Cash conversion | 38% | 77.8% | 90.4% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼6.7% | ▼1.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼100% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼50% | ▼25% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £645k | £705k | £764k |
| Net assets | £4.4m | £5.3m | £5.3m |
| Fixed assets | £1.2m | £1.2m | £98.9k |
| Current assets | £5.9m | £7.2m | £6.9m |
| Debtors | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Deferred income | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Cash from operations | £597k | £993k | £1.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £8.5m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £333k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 90.4%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0%
- 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 £5.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲8%
- Now £764k
- Headcount
- ▼25%
- Now 3
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £0
- Fixed assets
- ▼92%
- Now £98.9k
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
- GCH Corporation Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Whiteline (Group) Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (3)
- Whiteline Manufacturing LimitedRev. £20.8m · Profit £1.2m
- Teamframes LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Whiteline Aluminium LtdFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (14)
- Adm Pressings LimitedRev. £21.1m · Profit −£552k
- Newspace Containers LimitedRev. £15.6m · Profit −£176k
- Stackright North West LimitedRev. £300k · Profit £157k
- Adm Pressings (Holdings) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Crompton Lamps LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Dent Steel Holdings LimitedRev. — · Profit £2.7m
- GCH Systems & Technology LimitedFigures not disclosed
- GCH Trading Company 067 LtdFigures not disclosed
- HK Timbers LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lightbulbs Direct LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Sycamore Lighting LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Thurston Group Estates 2025 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Thurston Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Unitruck LtdFigures 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 £1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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