The Glasgow Angling Centre Limited
Registered name: THE GLASGOW ANGLING CENTRE LIMITED
The Glasgow Angling Centre Limited made £9.4m revenue and £265k profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025.
The Glasgow Angling Centre Limited’s revenue grew 3% to £9.4m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £265k profit and 63 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale of sports goods, fishing gear, camping goods, boats and bicycles” and is based in Glasgow; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Glasgow, Scotland
- Age
- 28 yrs · since 1998
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £9.6m | £9.1m | £9.4m |
| Cost of sales | −£4.9m | −£4.8m | −£4.8m |
| Gross profit | £4.7m | £4.3m | £4.5m |
| Operating profit | £705k | £217k | £326k |
| Profit before tax | £707k | £228k | £357k |
| Profit after tax | £573k | £166k | £265k |
| Profit (best available) | £573k | £166k | £265k |
| Employees (average) | 60 | 63 | 63 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 6% | 1.8% | 2.8% |
| Gross margin | 48.8% | 47.1% | 48.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £159k | £145k | £148k |
| Profit per employee | £9.5k | £2.6k | £4.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼4.7% | ▲2.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼71% | ▲59.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 48.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £148k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.2k
- 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
- 0%
- Now 63
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Apr 2025 (profit £265k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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