Astec Europe Limited
Registered name: ASTEC EUROPE LIMITED
Part of Advanced Energy Industries Inc groupAstec Europe Limited made £1.5m revenue and £523k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Astec Europe Limited’s revenue grew 14% to £1.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £523k profit and 7 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in Littlehampton; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Littlehampton, South East
- Age
- 66 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £1.3m | £1.5m |
| Cost of sales | −£200k | −£197k |
| Gross profit | £1.1m | £1.3m |
| Operating profit | £153k | £77k |
| Profit before tax | £615k | £570k |
| Profit after tax | £464k | £523k |
| Profit (best available) | £464k | £523k |
| Employees (average) | 6 | 7 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 35.6% | 35.2% |
| Gross margin | 84.7% | 86.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £218k | £212k |
| Profit per employee | £77.3k | £74.7k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲13.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲12.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲16.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Net assets | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 35.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 86.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £212k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £74.7k
- 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
- ▲17%
- Now 7
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Advanced Energy Industries Inc (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Stourbridge Holdings (U.K.) Limited75–100%
- Astec Europe 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 accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit £523k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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