Card Industry Professionals Ltd
Registered name: CARD INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS LTD
Card Industry Professionals Ltd made £2m revenue and a £2.1m loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Card Industry Professionals Ltd’s revenue was £2m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £2.1m and 23 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in Aylesby; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Aylesby, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 9 yrs · since 2017
- 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: “As at 31 December 2025, the immediate controlling party and parent is Shift4 Malta Limited by virtue of its 100% shareholding. The registered office of the immediate parent company is 80 Strait Street”
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 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | £2.7m | £2m |
| Cost of sales | — | — | £1.4m | £1.2m |
| Gross profit | — | — | £1.2m | £742k |
| Operating profit | — | — | −£18.2k | −£2.1m |
| Profit before tax | — | — | −£61.2k | −£2.1m |
| Profit after tax | — | — | −£61.2k | −£2.1m |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | −£61.2k | −£2.1m |
| Employees (average) | 15 | 18 | 17 | 23 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | −2.3% | −106.4% |
| Gross margin | — | — | 46.3% | 37.5% |
| Revenue per employee | — | — | £156k | £86.1k |
| Profit per employee | — | — | −£3.6k | −£91.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Headcount growth | — | ▲20% | ▼5.6% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £558k | £98.1k | £40.6k | £1.2m |
| Net assets | £358k | −£155k | −£216k | £1.1m |
| Fixed assets | £47.9k | £37k | £25.8k | £30.8k |
| Current assets | £638k | £300k | £297k | £1.4m |
| Debtors | £8.7k | £49.9k | £18.1k | £48.2k |
| Deferred income | — | — | £192k | £71k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −106.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 37.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £86.1k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£91.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 2.4%
- 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 £1.1m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £1.2m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 23
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £71k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £30.8k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Minority corporate shareholders
- Shift4 Payments, Inc. (registered outside the UK register) 25–50%
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 2025 (profit −£2.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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