Alinea Consulting LLP
Registered name: ALINEA CONSULTING LLP
Part of Cbre Group, Inc. groupAlinea Consulting LLP made £18.7m revenue and £1.9m profit in the year to 30 Apr 2024. read from filing text
Alinea Consulting LLP’s revenue fell 7% to £18.7m in the year to 30 Apr 2024, with £1.9m profit and 102 employees. The company is based in Leeds; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 13 yrs · since 2012
- Type
- Limited Liability Partnership
Partnership. Profit is shown before the partners' own pay, so margins aren't comparable with a limited company. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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 | 30 Apr 2022 | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £15.7m | £20.2m | £18.7m |
| Cost of sales | £8.5m | £10.5m | £13.2m |
| Gross profit | £7.1m | £9.6m | £5.5m |
| Operating profit | £4.1m | £5.6m | £1.9m |
| Profit after tax | £4m | £5.6m | £1.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £4m | £5.6m | £1.9m |
| Employees (average) | 101 | 104 | 102 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 25.8% | 27.9% | 10.3% |
| Gross margin | 45.5% | 47.7% | 29.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £155k | £194k | £183k |
| Profit per employee | £40k | £54k | £18.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲28.7% | ▼7.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲39% | ▼65.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3% | ▼1.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 10.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 29.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £183k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £18.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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 —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 102
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Cbre Group, Inc. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Cbre Global Acquisition Limited75–100%
- Cbre Holdings Limited75–100%
- Cbre Titan Acquisition Co. Limited50–75%
- Turner & Townsend Holdings Limited75–100%
- Turner & Townsend PJM Holdings Limited75–100%
- Turner & Townsend Limited75–100%
- Turner & Townsend Group Limited75–100%
- Turner & Townsend UK Limited75–100%
- Turner & Townsend Cost Management Limited75–100%
- Alinea Consulting LLPthis 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).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Apr 2024 (profit £1.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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