Ter (UK) Limited
Registered name: TER (UK) LIMITED
Ter (UK) Limited made £13m revenue and £129k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Ter (UK) Limited’s revenue fell 12% to £13m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £129k profit and 23 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of chemical products” and is based in Ipswich; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Ipswich, East of England
- 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. From the filing: “The company's immediate parent is Ter Chemicals GmbH & Co KG. The ultimate parent is Ter Hell & Co GmbH. The registered office of both companies is Boersenbrucke 2, 20457 Hamburg, Germany. Copies of t”
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 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £19.3m | £17.8m | £14.7m | £13m |
| Cost of sales | £15.5m | £13.9m | £11.4m | £10.1m |
| Gross profit | £3.8m | £4m | £3.2m | £2.8m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £1.6m | £747k | £183k |
| Profit before tax | £1.4m | £1.4m | £765k | £170k |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £1.1m | £565k | £129k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £1.1m | £565k | £129k |
| Staff costs | £1.2m | £1.2m | £1.3m | £1.3m |
| Employees (average) | 18 | 20 | 21 | 23 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5.8% | 6% | 3.9% | 1% |
| Gross margin | 19.5% | 22.2% | 22.1% | 21.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £1.1m | £891k | £698k | £564k |
| Profit per employee | £62.5k | £53.4k | £26.9k | £5.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼7.5% | ▼17.7% | ▼11.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼5% | ▼47.1% | ▼77.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲11.1% | ▲5% | ▲9.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.5m | £510k | £1.1m | £2.6m |
| Net assets | £3.3m | £4.4m | £3.9m | £4.1m |
| Fixed assets | — | — | £33.5k | — |
| Current assets | £8.7m | £5.8m | £5.3m | £6.2m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £2m | £1.1m | £428k |
| Deferred income | — | — | £259k | £128k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 21.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £564k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 3.3%
- 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 £4.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲129%
- Now £2.6m
- Headcount
- ▲10%
- Now 23
- Deferred income
- ▼51%
- Now £128k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £129k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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