Alpha Marketing UK Limited
Registered name: ALPHA MARKETING UK LIMITED
Part of Alpha Marketing Holdings Limited groupAlpha Marketing UK Limited made £12.1m revenue and £93.7k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Alpha Marketing UK Limited’s revenue fell 11% to £12.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £93.7k profit and 25 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of office furniture” and is based in Belfast; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Age
- 16 yrs · since 2010
- 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 immediate parent company is Alpha Marketing plc, the ultimate parent company is Alpha Marketing Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in Northern Ireland.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £22.5m | £13.6m | £12.1m |
| Cost of sales | £18.8m | £10.8m | £9.1m |
| Gross profit | £3.7m | £2.8m | £3.1m |
| Operating profit | £407k | £1.2k | £189k |
| Profit before tax | £256k | −£29.4k | £136k |
| Profit after tax | £187k | −£29.6k | £93.7k |
| Profit (best available) | £187k | −£29.6k | £93.7k |
| Staff costs | £1.9m | £1.6m | £1.7m |
| Employees (average) | 26 | 26 | 25 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.8% | −0.2% | 0.8% |
| Gross margin | 16.6% | 20.7% | 25.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £866k | £522k | £485k |
| Profit per employee | £7.2k | −£1.1k | £3.7k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼39.8% | ▼10.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼115.8% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▼3.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £5.2k | £28.7k | £5.7k |
| Net assets | £703k | £673k | £517k |
| Fixed assets | £80.8k | £52.3k | £35.4k |
| Current assets | £7.1m | £4.6m | £4.8m |
| Debtors | £2.8m | £1.6m | £1.9m |
| Deferred income | £515k | £578k | £481k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £485k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 15.6%
- 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
- ▼23%
- Now £517k
- Cash at bank
- ▼80%
- Now £5.7k
- Headcount
- ▼4%
- Now 25
- Deferred income
- ▼17%
- Now £481k
- Fixed assets
- ▼32%
- Now £35.4k
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
- Alpha Marketing Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Alpha Marketing PLC75–100%
- Alpha Marketing UK Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- 1080 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Alpha Marketing Scotland 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 2025 (profit £93.7k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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