Gleason Cutting Tools Limited
Registered name: GLEASON CUTTING TOOLS LIMITED
Part of Gleason Holdings (UK) Limited groupGleason Cutting Tools Limited made £2.8m revenue and £190k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Gleason Cutting Tools Limited’s revenue grew 2% to £2.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £190k profit and 15 employees. The company is classified under “repair of machinery” and is based in Coventry; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Coventry, West Midlands
- Age
- 67 yrs · since 1959
- 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 immediate parent company is Gleason Holdings (UK) Limited, a company registered in England and Wales. Gleason Holdings (UK) Limited prepare consolidated financial statements which are available fr”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £2.9m | £2.7m | £2.8m |
| Cost of sales | £878k | £1.1m | £959k |
| Gross profit | £2m | £1.7m | £1.8m |
| Operating profit | £266k | −£18k | −£15.5k |
| Profit before tax | £268k | −£15k | £190k |
| Profit after tax | £268k | −£15k | £190k |
| Profit (best available) | £268k | −£15k | £190k |
| Staff costs | £804k | £784k | — |
| Employees (average) | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 9.3% | −0.5% | 6.8% |
| Gross margin | 69.7% | 61.3% | 65.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £193k | £182k | £186k |
| Profit per employee | £17.9k | −£1k | £12.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼5.6% | ▲1.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼105.6% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £315k | £151k | £181k |
| Net assets | £4.5m | £4.4m | £8.1m |
| Fixed assets | £30k | £22.5k | £3.3m |
| Current assets | £1.2m | £1m | £1.1m |
| Debtors | £467k | £360k | £390k |
| Deferred income | — | £0 | £108k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 65.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £186k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £12.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 118.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14%
- 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
- ▲86%
- Now £8.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲20%
- Now £181k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 15
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £108k
- Fixed assets
- ▲14592%
- Now £3.3m
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
- Gleason Holdings (UK) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Gleason Cutting Tools Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Gleason Metrology Systems LimitedRev. £16.9m · Profit £2.8m
- Gleason UK Pension Trustee Company 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit £190k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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