W.ball & Son Limited
Registered name: W.BALL & SON LIMITED
Part of W Ball & Son (Holdings) Limited groupW.ball & Son Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Mar 2025 show net assets of £1.5m and 41 employees.
W.ball & Son Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 showed net assets of £1.5m and 41 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other technical and industrial textiles” and is based in Derby; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Derby, East Midlands
- Age
- 72 yrs · since 1954
- 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.
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
W.ball & Son Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 41
- Net assets
- £1.5m
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 45 | 49 | 49 | 41 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8.9% | 0% | ▼16.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £123k | £43.8k | £38.3k | £74.9k |
| Net assets | £1.3m | £1.4m | £1.2m | £1.5m |
| Fixed assets | £760k | £682k | £701k | £825k |
| Current assets | £2.3m | £2.3m | £2.2m | £2.4m |
| Debtors | £665k | £646k | £582k | £586k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
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
- ▲28%
- Now £1.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲96%
- Now £74.9k
- Headcount
- ▼16%
- Now 41
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲18%
- Now £825k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- W Ball & Son (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- W.ball & Son 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 31 Mar 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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