Frimpeks Limited
Registered name: FRIMPEKS LIMITED
Part of Frimpeks Kimya Ve Etiket Sanayi Ticaret groupFrimpeks Limited made £20.9m revenue and a £1.6m loss in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Frimpeks Limited’s revenue fell 4% to £20.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with a loss of £1.6m and 66 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other articles of paper and paperboard” and is based in Market Harborough; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Market Harborough, East Midlands
- Age
- 11 yrs · since 2015
- 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: “Controlling party”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £29.5m | £21.8m | £20.9m |
| Cost of sales | £26.6m | £22m | £21m |
| Gross profit | £2.9m | −£154k | −£30.9k |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | −£1.8m | −£1.3m |
| Profit before tax | £1m | −£2.2m | −£1.6m |
| Profit after tax | £960k | −£3.3m | −£1.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £960k | −£3.3m | −£1.6m |
| Staff costs | £3.1m | £3.1m | £3m |
| Employees (average) | 76 | 74 | 66 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 3.3% | −15% | −7.4% |
| Gross margin | 9.8% | −0.7% | −0.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £388k | £295k | £317k |
| Profit per employee | £12.6k | −£44.1k | −£23.5k |
| Cash conversion | 57.6% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼26% | ▼4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼439.9% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼2.6% | ▼10.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £429k | £384k | £447k |
| Net assets | £3.2m | −£48.5k | £937k |
| Fixed assets | £1.3m | £1.1m | £848k |
| Current assets | £16.2m | £8.6m | £10.4m |
| Debtors | £5.7m | £3.4m | £3.8m |
| Deferred income | £206k | £134k | £249k |
| Cash from operations | £676k | £98.2k | −£2.4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −7.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- −0.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £317k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£23.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 18%
- 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 £937k
- Cash at bank
- ▲16%
- Now £447k
- Headcount
- ▼11%
- Now 66
- Deferred income
- ▲85%
- Now £249k
- Fixed assets
- ▼23%
- Now £848k
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
- Frimpeks Kimya Ve Etiket Sanayi Ticaret (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Frimpeks 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 Dec 2024 (profit −£1.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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