Centreco (UK) Limited
Registered name: CENTRECO (UK) LIMITED
Part of Dcc Public Limited Company groupCentreco (UK) Limited made £14.6m revenue and £3.2m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Centreco (UK) Limited’s revenue was £14.6m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £3.2m profit and 47 employees. The company is classified under “electrical installation” and is based in Birchwood; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Birchwood, North West
- Age
- 12 yrs · since 2014
- 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 immediate 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 May 2022 | 31 May 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £19.6m | £23.4m | £14.6m |
| Cost of sales | — | £13.3m | £12.1m | £8.4m |
| Gross profit | — | £6.2m | £11.3m | £6.2m |
| Operating profit | — | £4.2m | £9.4m | £4m |
| Profit before tax | — | £4.1m | £9.4m | £4m |
| Profit after tax | — | £3.4m | £7m | £3.2m |
| Profit (best available) | — | £3.4m | £7m | £3.2m |
| Staff costs | — | £3.1m | £2.8m | £2.4m |
| Employees (average) | 28 | 63 | 74 | 47 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | 17.3% | 30% | 21.9% |
| Gross margin | — | 31.8% | 48.1% | 42.7% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £311k | £316k | £311k |
| Profit per employee | — | £53.8k | £94.8k | £68.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Headcount growth | — | ▲125% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.1m | £2.9m | £185k | £156k |
| Net assets | £569k | £3m | £10m | £13.2m |
| Fixed assets | £327k | £482k | £312k | £169k |
| Current assets | £3.2m | £8.3m | £15.9m | £20.7m |
| Debtors | £896k | £2.2m | £5.1m | £8.7m |
| Deferred income | — | £2.2m | £1.4m | £1.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 21.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 42.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £311k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £68.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 7.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 59.5%
- 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
- —
- Now £13.2m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £156k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 47
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £1.1m
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £169k
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
- Dcc Public Limited Company (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- DCC Limited75–100%
- DCC Energy UK Limited75–100%
- Energy Acquisitions UK Limited75–100%
- Certas Energy UK Limited75–100%
- Centreco Group Holdings Limited75–100%
- Array Investments Limited75–100%
- Centreco (UK) Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Centreco 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 Mar 2025 (profit £3.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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