Erico Pallets Limited
Registered name: ERICO PALLETS LIMITED
Part of Erico Scandinavia Ab groupErico Pallets Limited made £17.5m revenue and a £179k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Erico Pallets Limited’s revenue was £17.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with a loss of £179k and 58 employees. The company is classified under “non-specialised wholesale trade” and is based in Alfreton; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Alfreton, East Midlands
- Age
- 7 yrs · since 2019
- 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: “The ultimate controlling party is Erico Scandinavia AB.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £32.9m | £30.2m | £17.5m |
| Cost of sales | £24m | £24.6m | £14.7m |
| Gross profit | £8.9m | £5.6m | £2.8m |
| Operating profit | £6.5m | £1.3m | −£584k |
| Profit before tax | £6.5m | −£461k | −£329k |
| Profit after tax | £5.3m | −£199k | −£179k |
| Profit (best available) | £5.3m | −£199k | −£179k |
| Staff costs | — | £2.6m | £3.1m |
| Employees (average) | 11 | 39 | 58 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 16% | −0.7% | −1% |
| Gross margin | 27.1% | 18.6% | 15.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £3m | £775k | £302k |
| Profit per employee | £478k | −£5.1k | −£3.1k |
| Cash conversion | — | −137.2% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £4.6m | £816k | £184k |
| Net assets | £5.7m | £4.5m | £4.2m |
| Fixed assets | £578k | £2.4m | £1.3m |
| Current assets | £7.8m | £5.4m | £5.3m |
| Debtors | £2.6m | £2m | £2.3m |
| Deferred income | £37.6k | £199k | £0 |
| Cash from operations | — | −£1.8m | £1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 15.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £302k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£3.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 7.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.2%
- 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 £4.2m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £184k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 58
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £0
- 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
- Erico Scandinavia Ab (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Erico Pallets Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Erico Logistics LimitedFigures 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 31 Dec 2024 (profit −£179k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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