Westend As Limited
Registered name: WESTEND AS LIMITED
Part of Hewmac Group (Trustee) Limited groupWestend As Limited made £16.3m revenue and £3.8m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Westend As Limited’s revenue grew 7% to £16.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £3.8m profit and 12 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in Liverpool; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Liverpool, North West
- 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 parent undertaking is”
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&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £23.8m | £18.8m | £15.3m | £16.3m |
| Cost of sales | £20.1m | £16.7m | £13.3m | £14.3m |
| Gross profit | £3.7m | £2.1m | £2m | £2m |
| Operating profit | £2.7m | £886k | £1.2m | £3.9m |
| Profit before tax | £2.6m | £862k | £1.2m | £4m |
| Profit after tax | £2.1m | £664k | £956k | £3.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.1m | £664k | £956k | £3.8m |
| Staff costs | £524k | £780k | £678k | £627k |
| Employees (average) | 8 | 13 | 12 | 12 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 8.8% | 3.5% | 6.2% | 23.2% |
| Gross margin | 15.7% | 11% | 13.3% | 12.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £3m | £1.4m | £1.3m | £1.4m |
| Profit per employee | £261k | £51.1k | £79.7k | £315k |
| Cash conversion | −104.5% | −90.2% | 66.2% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼21.2% | ▼18.5% | ▲6.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼68.2% | ▲44% | ▲295.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲62.5% | ▼7.7% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £4.1m | £3.2m | £1.4m | £993k |
| Net assets | £4.2m | £4m | £4.4m | £4.5m |
| Fixed assets | £33.9k | £31.4k | £26.2k | £22.5k |
| Current assets | £9.5m | £10.2m | £7.9m | £5.8m |
| Debtors | £3.2m | £1.8m | £1.5m | £1.2m |
| Deferred income | £108k | £97.6k | £72.5k | £105k |
| Cash from operations | −£2.8m | −£799k | £792k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 23.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 12.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.4m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £315k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 7.4%
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now £4.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼28%
- Now £993k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 12
- Deferred income
- ▲45%
- Now £105k
- Fixed assets
- ▼14%
- Now £22.5k
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
- Hewmac Group (Trustee) Limitedultimate parent50–75%
- Hewmac Limited75–100%
- Westend As Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Westend As (Ni) 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 2025 (profit £3.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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