Roberts Metal Packaging Ltd
Registered name: ROBERTS METAL PACKAGING LTD
Roberts Metal Packaging Ltd made £7.8m revenue and a £89.3k loss in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Roberts Metal Packaging Ltd’s revenue fell 15% to £7.8m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with a loss of £89.3k and 63 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of light metal packaging” and is based in Thamesmead; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Thamesmead, London
- Age
- 131 yrs · since 1895
- 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 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £9.3m | £7.8m |
| Cost of sales | £6.4m | £5.5m |
| Gross profit | £2.9m | £2.4m |
| Operating profit | £283k | −£139k |
| Profit before tax | £262k | −£140k |
| Profit after tax | £197k | −£89.3k |
| Profit (best available) | £197k | −£89.3k |
| Staff costs | £2.5m | £2.5m |
| Employees (average) | 65 | 63 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 2.1% | −1.1% |
| Gross margin | 31% | 30.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £142k | £124k |
| Profit per employee | £3k | −£1.4k |
| Cash conversion | −692.9% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼15.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼145.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼3.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £1.8m | £2.3m |
| Net assets | £6.1m | £5.9m |
| Fixed assets | £2.3m | £1.9m |
| Current assets | £6.8m | £6.7m |
| Debtors | £1.5m | £1.1m |
| Cash from operations | −£2m | −£1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −1.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 30.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £124k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£1.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 24.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- ▼3%
- Now £5.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▲30%
- Now £2.3m
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 63
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼16%
- Now £1.9m
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit −£89.3k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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