Fife Fabrications Limited
Registered name: FIFE FABRICATIONS LIMITED
Part of Fifab Limited groupFife Fabrications Limited made £9.1m revenue and £495k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Fife Fabrications Limited’s revenue grew 4% to £9.1m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £495k profit and 94 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other fabricated metal products” and is based in Fife; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Fife, Scotland
- Age
- 54 yrs · since 1972
- 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 parent company is Fifab Limited.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £10.4m | £10.5m | £8.8m | £9.1m |
| Cost of sales | £8.1m | £7.5m | £6.5m | £7.3m |
| Gross profit | £2.3m | £3m | £2.3m | £1.9m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £1.9m | £1.2m | £576k |
| Profit before tax | £1.3m | £1.9m | £1.2m | £611k |
| Profit after tax | £1m | £1.5m | £964k | £495k |
| Profit (best available) | £1m | £1.5m | £964k | £495k |
| Staff costs | £3.5m | £3.5m | £3.4m | £3.7m |
| Employees (average) | 109 | 104 | 97 | 94 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 9.9% | 14.8% | 10.9% | 5.4% |
| Gross margin | 22% | 28.8% | 26.4% | 20.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £95.3k | £101k | £90.7k | £97.3k |
| Profit per employee | £9.4k | £14.9k | £9.9k | £5.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲0.9% | ▼16% | ▲4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲51% | ▼37.6% | ▼48.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4.6% | ▼6.7% | ▼3.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.8m | £1.9m | £2m | £1.5m |
| Net assets | £3.3m | £4.9m | £5.9m | £6.4m |
| Fixed assets | £1.6m | £1.4m | £1.2m | £1.1m |
| Current assets | £4.5m | £6m | £6.5m | £6.9m |
| Debtors | £1.9m | £1.5m | £1.2m | £1.3m |
| Deferred income | £467k | £465k | £448k | £513k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £97.3k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 11.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.3%
- 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
- ▲8%
- Now £6.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▼27%
- Now £1.5m
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 94
- Deferred income
- ▲14%
- Now £513k
- Fixed assets
- ▼11%
- Now £1.1m
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
- Fifab Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Fifab Holdings Limited75–100%
- Fife Fabrications 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 30 Sep 2025 (profit £495k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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