Kelvinside Electronics Limited
Registered name: KELVINSIDE ELECTRONICS LIMITED
Part of Kelvinside Electronics (Number1) Ltd groupKelvinside Electronics Limited made £13.9m revenue and £733k profit in the year to 30 Nov 2025. read from filing text
Kelvinside Electronics Limited’s revenue fell 5% to £13.9m in the year to 30 Nov 2025, with £733k profit and 57 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of loaded electronic boards” and is based in Strathclyde; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Strathclyde, Scotland
- Age
- 39 yrs · since 1987
- 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”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Nov 2021 | 30 Nov 2022 | 30 Nov 2023 | 30 Nov 2024 | 30 Nov 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 | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.3m | £13.5m | £16.6m | £14.7m | £13.9m |
| Cost of sales | £7.2m | £9m | £12.1m | £10.1m | £9.4m |
| Gross profit | £4m | £4.5m | £4.5m | £4.6m | £4.4m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £1.4m | £1.4m | £1.3m | £965k |
| Profit before tax | £1.3m | £1.4m | £1.4m | £1.3m | £994k |
| Profit after tax | £1m | £1.1m | £1.1m | £953k | £733k |
| Profit (best available) | £1m | £1.1m | £1.1m | £953k | £733k |
| Staff costs | £2.1m | £2.1m | £2.4m | £2.4m | £2.6m |
| Employees (average) | 67 | 64 | 65 | 61 | 57 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 9% | 8.5% | 6.5% | 6.5% | 5.3% |
| Gross margin | 35.8% | 33.6% | 26.9% | 31.2% | 31.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £168k | £211k | £255k | £240k | £243k |
| Profit per employee | £15.1k | £17.9k | £16.6k | £15.6k | £12.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲19.9% | ▲23% | ▼11.6% | ▼5.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲13.4% | ▼5.9% | ▼11.7% | ▼23.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4.5% | ▲1.6% | ▼6.2% | ▼6.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £1.3m | £536k | £752k | £543k | £2.4m |
| Net assets | £5.3m | £6.5m | £7.5m | £8.5m | £9.2m |
| Fixed assets | £204k | £292k | £264k | £225k | £226k |
| Current assets | £7.8m | £12m | £15.1m | £10.3m | £10.6m |
| Debtors | £2m | £2.4m | £4.3m | £3.3m | £2.6m |
| Deferred income | £3.4k | £1.9k | £429 | £0 | £109k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £243k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £12.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 18.6%
- 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
- ▲9%
- Now £9.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲347%
- Now £2.4m
- Headcount
- ▼7%
- Now 57
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £109k
- Fixed assets
- ▲0%
- Now £226k
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
- Kelvinside Electronics (Number1) Ltd (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Kelvinside Electronics 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 Nov 2025 (profit £733k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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