Ravensby Glass Company Limited
Registered name: RAVENSBY GLASS COMPANY LIMITED
Part of Malcolm, Ogilvie & Company Limited groupRavensby Glass Company Limited made £15.7m revenue and a £3.7m loss in the year to 30 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Ravensby Glass Company Limited’s revenue was £15.7m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with a loss of £3.7m and 108 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Dundee; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Dundee, Scotland
- Age
- 40 yrs · since 1986
- 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 company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malcolm, Ogilvie & Company Limited.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Oct 2022 | 31 Oct 2023 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £21.1m | £18.3m | £15.7m |
| Cost of sales | £16.8m | £14.9m | £13.8m |
| Gross profit | £4.3m | £3.4m | £1.9m |
| Operating profit | £37.6k | −£1m | −£3.4m |
| Profit before tax | −£75.2k | −£1.2m | −£3.7m |
| Profit after tax | £31.2k | −£1.3m | −£3.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £31.2k | −£1.3m | −£3.7m |
| Staff costs | — | £5.1m | £5.6m |
| Employees (average) | 175 | 147 | 108 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.1% | −6.9% | −23.5% |
| Gross margin | 20.4% | 18.7% | 12% |
| Revenue per employee | £121k | £124k | £145k |
| Profit per employee | £178 | −£8.6k | −£34.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼13.4% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▼4139% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼16% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £447k | £534k | £95.6k |
| Net assets | £4.5m | £3.2m | −£447k |
| Fixed assets | £7.2m | £4.9m | £0 |
| Current assets | £6.8m | £5.4m | £218k |
| Debtors | £4.3m | £3.3m | £78.9k |
| Deferred income | — | £452k | £74k |
| Cash from operations | — | −£1.1m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −23.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 12%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £145k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£34.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.5%
- 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 −£447k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £95.6k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 108
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £74k
- Fixed assets
- —
- 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
- Malcolm, Ogilvie & Company Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Ravensby Glass Company Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Discovery Stone Surfaces 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 30 Apr 2025 (profit −£3.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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