Aerial Exposure Ltd
Registered name: AERIAL EXPOSURE LTD
Part of Aerial Exposure Group Limited groupAerial Exposure Ltd made £73.5m revenue and £30m profit in the year to 28 Feb 2025.
Aerial Exposure Ltd’s revenue was £73.5m in the year to 28 Feb 2025, with £30m profit and 13 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other transport equipment” and is based in Richmond; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Richmond, North East
- Age
- 10 yrs · since 2016
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Aug 2022 | 31 Aug 2023 | 28 Feb 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £17.3m | £73.5m |
| Cost of sales | — | £15m | £31.7m |
| Gross profit | — | £2.3m | £41.8m |
| Operating profit | — | £1.7m | £40m |
| Profit before tax | — | £1.7m | £40m |
| Profit after tax | — | £1.4m | £30m |
| Profit (best available) | — | £1.4m | £30m |
| Staff costs | — | £127k | £645k |
| Employees (average) | 4 | 12 | 13 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | 8% | 40.8% |
| Gross margin | — | 13.1% | 56.9% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £1.4m | £5.7m |
| Profit per employee | — | £115k | £2.3m |
| Cash conversion | — | 209% | 35.1% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Headcount growth | — | ▲200% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £202k | £2.9m | £12.9m |
| Net assets | £571k | £1.9m | £29.2m |
| Fixed assets | £294k | £739k | £1.3m |
| Current assets | £978k | £5.9m | £50.5m |
| Debtors | £76.6k | £134k | £8.2m |
| Deferred income | — | £3.2k | £203k |
| Cash from operations | — | £3.6m | £14m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 40.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 56.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £5.7m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.3m
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 35.1%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11.1%
- 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 £29.2m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £12.9m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 13
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £203k
- Fixed assets
- —
- 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
- Aerial Exposure Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Aerial Exposure Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- 3DXR LtdFigures 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 28 Feb 2025 (profit £30m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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