Vipond Fire Protection Limited
Registered name: VIPOND FIRE PROTECTION LIMITED
Part of Api Group Corporation groupVipond Fire Protection Limited made £0 revenue and £0 profit in the year to 31 Dec 2023. read from filing text
Vipond Fire Protection Limited’s revenue fell 100% to £0 in the year to 31 Dec 2023, with £0 profit and 3 employees. The company is classified under “other specialised construction activities” and is based in Renfrew; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Liquidation
- Location
- Renfrew, Scotland
- Age
- 51 yrs · since 1975
- 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: “Following a group restructure, Chubb Group Limited became the immediate parent company on 20 December 2022.”
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £21.4m | £0 |
| Cost of sales | £14.5m | £0 |
| Gross profit | £6.9m | £0 |
| Operating profit | £1.8m | £0 |
| Profit before tax | £1.8m | £0 |
| Profit after tax | £1.4m | £0 |
| Profit (best available) | £1.4m | £0 |
| Staff costs | £6.7m | £0 |
| Employees (average) | 126 | 3 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 6.7% | — |
| Gross margin | 32.2% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £170k | £0 |
| Profit per employee | £11.4k | £0 |
| Cash conversion | 18.2% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼100% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼100% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼97.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £4.8m | £181k |
| Net assets | £11.5m | £11.5m |
| Fixed assets | £835k | £0 |
| Current assets | £16.1m | £11.5m |
| Debtors | £6.3m | £0 |
| Deferred income | £525k | £0 |
| Cash from operations | £318k | £0 |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £0
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £0
- 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
- 0%
- Now £11.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼96%
- Now £181k
- Headcount
- ▼98%
- Now 3
- Deferred income
- ▼100%
- Now £0
- Fixed assets
- ▼100%
- Now £0
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
- Api Group Corporation (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Api Group UK Holdco Limited75–100%
- Chubb Limited75–100%
- Chubb Group Limited75–100%
- Vipond Fire Protection Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (5)
- Chubb Fire LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Chubb Group (International) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Chubb Group Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Chubb Group Security LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Chubb International Holdings 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 2023 (profit £0), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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