Quality Metal Products Limited
Registered name: QUALITY METAL PRODUCTS LIMITED
Part of HH Properties (Midlands) Limited groupQuality Metal Products Limited made £8.1m revenue and a £4.6k loss in the year to 31 Jan 2025.
Quality Metal Products Limited’s revenue fell 2% to £8.1m in the year to 31 Jan 2025, with a loss of £4.6k and 74 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other fabricated metal products” and is based in Stourbridge; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Stourbridge, West Midlands
- 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 Jan 2022 | 31 Jan 2023 | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7.4m | £8.8m | £8.3m | £8.1m |
| Cost of sales | £5m | £6m | £5.3m | £5.3m |
| Gross profit | £2.4m | £2.8m | £3m | £2.8m |
| Operating profit | £430k | £429k | £414k | £146k |
| Profit before tax | £375k | £343k | £277k | −£503 |
| Profit after tax | £299k | £299k | £55.2k | −£4.6k |
| Profit (best available) | £299k | £299k | £55.2k | −£4.6k |
| Staff costs | £1.8m | £2m | £2m | £2.2m |
| Employees (average) | 64 | 75 | 70 | 74 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 4.1% | 3.4% | 0.7% | −0.1% |
| Gross margin | 32.3% | 32% | 35.6% | 34.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £115k | £118k | £118k | £109k |
| Profit per employee | £4.7k | £4k | £789 | −£62 |
| Cash conversion | −105.2% | −5.2% | −156.8% | −215.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲19.9% | ▼6.3% | ▼2.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲0.1% | ▼81.5% | ▼108.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲17.2% | ▼6.7% | ▲5.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £462k | £194k | £129k | £47k |
| Net assets | £3m | £3.3m | £3.3m | £3.3m |
| Fixed assets | £5.3m | £5.9m | £5.9m | £5.6m |
| Current assets | £3.1m | £3.5m | £3m | £3.3m |
| Debtors | £1.2m | £1.3m | £1.3m | £1.3m |
| Deferred income | £587k | £562k | £320k | £280k |
| Cash from operations | −£453k | −£22.3k | −£650k | −£314k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 34.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £109k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£62
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −215.3%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 69.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 16.3%
- 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
- ▼1%
- Now £3.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼64%
- Now £47k
- Headcount
- ▲6%
- Now 74
- Deferred income
- ▼13%
- Now £280k
- Fixed assets
- ▼5%
- Now £5.6m
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
- HH Properties (Midlands) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Quality Metal Products Limitedthis 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 Jan 2025 (profit −£4.6k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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