Checkfire Ltd
Registered name: CHECKFIRE LTD
Part of Multishield Group Limited groupCheckfire Ltd made £39m revenue and £2.2m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Checkfire Ltd’s revenue grew 18% to £39m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £2.2m profit and 100 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Caerphilly; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Caerphilly, Wales
- Age
- 14 yrs · since 2012
- 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 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £33.1m | £39m |
| Cost of sales | £25.2m | £29.1m |
| Gross profit | £7.9m | £9.9m |
| Operating profit | £3.4m | £3.1m |
| Profit before tax | £3.4m | £3m |
| Profit after tax | £2.6m | £2.2m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.6m | £2.2m |
| Staff costs | £2.8m | £3.7m |
| Employees (average) | 76 | 100 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 7.7% | 5.7% |
| Gross margin | 23.9% | 25.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £435k | £390k |
| Profit per employee | £33.6k | £22.2k |
| Cash conversion | −78.2% | −79% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲17.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼13.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲31.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £1.5m | £1.4m |
| Net assets | £6.5m | £7.9m |
| Fixed assets | £823k | £2.3m |
| Current assets | £11.9m | £12.9m |
| Debtors | £5m | £5.8m |
| Deferred income | £120k | £261k |
| Cash from operations | −£2.7m | −£2.4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £390k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £22.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −79%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 5.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 15%
- 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
- ▲22%
- Now £7.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▼10%
- Now £1.4m
- Headcount
- ▲32%
- Now 100
- Deferred income
- ▲117%
- Now £261k
- Fixed assets
- ▲174%
- Now £2.3m
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
- Multishield Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Checkfire Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (3)
- Firecycle LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Firesealsdirect LimitedFigures not disclosed
- P J Fire 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 2024 (profit £2.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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