Hub Packaging Ltd.
Registered name: HUB PACKAGING LTD.
Part of Hub Packaging Holdings Ltd groupHub Packaging Ltd. made £19.4m revenue and £1.9m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Hub Packaging Ltd.’s revenue grew 7% to £19.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.9m profit and 50 employees. The company is classified under “non-specialised wholesale trade” and is based in Newry; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Newry, Northern Ireland
- Age
- 13 yrs · since 2013
- 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 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £15.7m | £18.1m | £19.4m |
| Cost of sales | £10.9m | £12.3m | £13.4m |
| Gross profit | £4.8m | £5.8m | £6m |
| Operating profit | £2.2m | £2.5m | £2.3m |
| Profit before tax | £2.2m | £2.5m | £2.3m |
| Profit after tax | £1.7m | £2.1m | £1.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.7m | £2.1m | £1.9m |
| Staff costs | £1.6m | £2.1m | £2.6m |
| Employees (average) | 41 | 47 | 50 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 10.5% | 11.7% | 10% |
| Gross margin | 30.6% | 32.1% | 30.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £383k | £385k | £387k |
| Profit per employee | £40.3k | £45k | £38.6k |
| Cash conversion | 125.2% | 61.6% | 101.7% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲15.2% | ▲7.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲28% | ▼8.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲14.6% | ▲6.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.8m | £1.6m | £2.6m |
| Net assets | £4.6m | £5m | £5.7m |
| Fixed assets | £370k | £373k | £403k |
| Current assets | £6.6m | £6.7m | £8m |
| Debtors | £3m | £3.2m | £3.7m |
| Deferred income | £239k | £245k | £342k |
| Cash from operations | £2.7m | £1.5m | £2.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 10%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 30.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £387k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £38.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 101.7%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 18.9%
- 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
- ▲14%
- Now £5.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲60%
- Now £2.6m
- Headcount
- ▲6%
- Now 50
- Deferred income
- ▲40%
- Now £342k
- Fixed assets
- ▲8%
- Now £403k
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
- Hub Packaging Holdings Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Hub Packaging Ltd.this company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Hub Fulfilment LtdFigures not disclosed
- Packed Up 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 £1.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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