Sav-Eco Packaging Ltd.
Registered name: SAV-ECO PACKAGING LTD.
Sav-Eco Packaging Ltd. made £9.5m revenue and a £2.1m loss in the year to 30 Apr 2025.
Sav-Eco Packaging Ltd.’s revenue was £9.5m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with a loss of £2.1m and 97 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of corrugated paper and paperboard, sacks and bags” and is based in Leicester; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leicester, East Midlands
- Age
- 12 yrs · since 2014
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Oct 2022 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £20.5m | £16.6m | £9.5m |
| Cost of sales | £15.6m | £14m | £8.7m |
| Gross profit | £5m | £2.6m | £795k |
| Operating profit | £2.2m | −£927k | −£1.9m |
| Profit before tax | £2.3m | −£862k | −£1.9m |
| Profit after tax | £1.3m | −£637k | −£2.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.3m | −£637k | −£2.1m |
| Staff costs | £4.2m | £4.3m | £3.3m |
| Employees (average) | 164 | 142 | 97 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 6.3% | −3.8% | −21.5% |
| Gross margin | 24.2% | 15.7% | 8.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £125k | £117k | £98.3k |
| Profit per employee | £7.9k | −£4.5k | −£21.2k |
| Cash conversion | −73.2% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £386k | £446k | £245k |
| Net assets | £3.8m | £2.8m | £770k |
| Fixed assets | £3.5m | £3.5m | £3.8m |
| Current assets | £5.9m | £3.7m | £2.6m |
| Debtors | £2.1m | £1.4m | £1.2m |
| Deferred income | £71k | £75.7k | £239k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.6m | −£764k | £2.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −21.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 8.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £98.3k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£21.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 40%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.4%
- 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
- —
- Now £770k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £245k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 97
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £239k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £3.8m
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 30 Apr 2025 (profit −£2.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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