GRP Solutions Ltd
Registered name: GRP SOLUTIONS LTD
Part of Leading Solutions Holdings Limited groupGRP Solutions Ltd made £25.1m revenue and £1m profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025. read from filing text
GRP Solutions Ltd’s revenue fell 10% to £25.1m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £1m profit and 33 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of chemical products” and is based in Portsmouth; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Portsmouth, South East
- 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: “Leading Solutions Holdings Limited (registered company no. 16295162) is regarded by the directors as being the company's ultimate parent company. Brian Harpur is considered the ultimate controlling pa”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £27.8m | £25.1m |
| Cost of sales | £23.4m | £20.9m |
| Gross profit | £4.4m | £4.2m |
| Operating profit | £2.1m | £1.4m |
| Profit before tax | £2m | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | £1.5m | £1m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.5m | £1m |
| Staff costs | £2.3m | £2m |
| Employees (average) | 34 | 33 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 5.3% | 4.1% |
| Gross margin | 15.7% | 16.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £816k | £760k |
| Profit per employee | £43.6k | £31.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼9.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼30.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼2.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £228k | £652k |
| Net assets | £6.1m | £6.4m |
| Fixed assets | £1.7m | £1.3m |
| Current assets | £9.9m | £13.7m |
| Debtors | £5.5m | £5.2m |
| Deferred income | £303k | £447k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 16.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £760k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £31.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 5.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 20.6%
- 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
- ▲6%
- Now £6.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲186%
- Now £652k
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 33
- Deferred income
- ▲48%
- Now £447k
- Fixed assets
- ▼20%
- Now £1.3m
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
- Leading Solutions Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- GRP Solutions Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (3)
- Estakleen Systems LtdFigures not disclosed
- GRP Consumable Solutions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Total Composite Solutions (TCS) LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (3)
- Circuit Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Composites Manufacturing Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Placeholder Solutions LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Similar profitable businesses
- Resapol LimitedManchester · Wholesale of chemical products
- Revenue
- £25.1m
- Profit
- £235k
- Staff
- 52
- Resource Chemicals LimitedBrackley · Wholesale of chemical products
- Revenue
- £24.3m
- Profit
- £1.6m
- Staff
- 14
- Sybron (UK) LimitedHarlow · Wholesale of chemical products
- Revenue
- £26.2m
- Profit
- £2.2m
- Staff
- 75
- Nordmann U.K. LimitedCrawley · Wholesale of chemical products
- Revenue
- £23.9m
- Profit
- £376k
- Staff
- 55
- Ems-Chemie (UK) LtdStafford · Wholesale of chemical products
- Revenue
- £23.8m
- Profit
- £422k
- Staff
- 13
- Blagden Specialty Chemicals LimitedWesterham · Wholesale of chemical products
- Revenue
- £23.4m
- Profit
- £1.2m
- Staff
- 52
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Jul 2025 (profit £1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Contains public sector information from Companies House licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data from Companies House, © Crown copyright. View the licence.