Q9 Cladding Solutions Ltd
Registered name: Q9 CLADDING SOLUTIONS LTD
Part of Q9 Cladding Solutions Holdings Limited groupQ9 Cladding Solutions Ltd made £27m revenue and £2m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Q9 Cladding Solutions Ltd’s revenue grew 117% to £27m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £2m profit and 28 employees. The company is classified under “construction of commercial buildings” and is based in Darlington; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Darlington, North East
- Age
- 14 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 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £12.4m | £27m |
| Cost of sales | — | £8.2m | £21.7m |
| Gross profit | — | £4.2m | £5.2m |
| Operating profit | — | £1.6m | £2.2m |
| Profit before tax | — | £1.6m | £2.2m |
| Profit after tax | — | £1.3m | £2m |
| Profit (best available) | — | £1.3m | £2m |
| Staff costs | — | £2.1m | £2m |
| Employees (average) | 20 | 30 | 28 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | 10.4% | 7.2% |
| Gross margin | — | 33.8% | 19.3% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £414k | £963k |
| Profit per employee | — | £43.2k | £69.7k |
| Cash conversion | — | −99.4% | −181.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲117% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲50.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲50% | ▼6.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £288k | £1.6m | £2.6m |
| Net assets | £1m | £2.3m | £1.5m |
| Fixed assets | £82.1k | £243k | £166k |
| Current assets | £3.6m | £5.8m | £6.6m |
| Debtors | £3.3m | £4.3m | £3.9m |
| Deferred income | £176k | £578k | £401k |
| Cash from operations | — | −£1.6m | −£4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 19.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £963k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £69.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −181.3%
- 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
- 1.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.5%
- 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
- ▼35%
- Now £1.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲66%
- Now £2.6m
- Headcount
- ▼7%
- Now 28
- Deferred income
- ▼31%
- Now £401k
- Fixed assets
- ▼31%
- Now £166k
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
- Q9 Cladding Solutions Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Q9 Cladding Solutions Ltdthis 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 Mar 2025 (profit £2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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