Crossbows Optical Limited
Registered name: CROSSBOWS OPTICAL LIMITED
Part of Essilorluxottica Sa groupCrossbows Optical Limited made £10.7m revenue and £8m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Crossbows Optical Limited’s revenue grew 5% to £10.7m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £8m profit and 12 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Portadown Road; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Portadown Road, Northern Ireland
- Age
- 39 yrs · since 1987
- 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 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £9.6m | £10.3m | £10.2m | £10.7m |
| Cost of sales | £480k | £577k | −£718k | −£229k |
| Gross profit | £9.1m | £9.7m | £9.5m | £10.5m |
| Operating profit | £7.9m | £8m | £6.9m | £8.9m |
| Profit before tax | £8.1m | £9m | £7.8m | £9.6m |
| Profit after tax | £7m | £6.9m | £5.7m | £8m |
| Profit (best available) | £7m | £6.9m | £5.7m | £8m |
| Employees (average) | 31 | 30 | — | 12 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 72.5% | 66.5% | 56.1% | 74.7% |
| Gross margin | 95% | 94.4% | 93% | 97.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £311k | £343k | — | £891k |
| Profit per employee | £225k | £228k | — | £666k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲7% | ▼0.8% | ▲4.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼1.8% | ▼16.3% | ▲39.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼3.2% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1m | £984k | £187k | £151k |
| Net assets | £21m | £27.9m | £11.6m | £19.6m |
| Fixed assets | £929k | £860k | £630k | £648k |
| Current assets | £21.9m | £27.6m | £12.5m | £20.5m |
| Debtors | £106k | £54.3k | £187k | £47.1k |
| Deferred income | £449k | £238k | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 74.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 97.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £891k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £666k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 6.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- 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
- ▲69%
- Now £19.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▼19%
- Now £151k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 12
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲3%
- Now £648k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Essilorluxottica Sa (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Trifle Holdings Limited75–100%
- Emnuk Limited75–100%
- Crossbows Optical 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 2025 (profit £8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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