Gulmay Limited
Registered name: GULMAY LIMITED
Part of Gulmay Holdings Limited groupGulmay Limited made £13.3m revenue and £539k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Gulmay Limited’s revenue fell 14% to £13.3m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £539k profit and 91 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of telegraph and telephone apparatus and equipment” and is based in Byfleet; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Byfleet, London
- Age
- 50 yrs · since 1976
- 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 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.2m | £12.6m | £15.6m | £13.3m |
| Cost of sales | £7.1m | £8.2m | £10.6m | £9m |
| Gross profit | £4.1m | £4.4m | £5m | £4.3m |
| Operating profit | £229k | £479k | £592k | £386k |
| Profit before tax | £228k | £480k | £587k | £381k |
| Profit after tax | £366k | £542k | £615k | £539k |
| Profit (best available) | £366k | £542k | £615k | £539k |
| Staff costs | £4.2m | £4.4m | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 90 | 93 | 96 | 91 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 3.3% | 4.3% | 4% | 4% |
| Gross margin | 36.9% | 35.1% | 31.8% | 32.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £124k | £135k | £162k | £146k |
| Profit per employee | £4.1k | £5.8k | £6.4k | £5.9k |
| Cash conversion | 75.9% | −104.6% | −80.3% | −111.1% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲12.5% | ▲23.7% | ▼14.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲48.2% | ▲13.4% | ▼12.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.3% | ▲3.2% | ▼5.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £884k | £565k | £134k | £349k |
| Net assets | £5.8m | £5.3m | £5m | £5.5m |
| Fixed assets | £1.2m | £1.1m | £979k | £807k |
| Current assets | £6.8m | £7.4m | £7.3m | £7.2m |
| Debtors | £740k | £805k | £1.4m | £1.7m |
| Deferred income | £673k | £807k | £652k | £157k |
| Cash from operations | £174k | −£501k | −£475k | −£429k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 32.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £146k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −111.1%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 6.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.8%
- 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
- ▲11%
- Now £5.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲161%
- Now £349k
- Headcount
- ▼5%
- Now 91
- Deferred income
- ▼76%
- Now £157k
- Fixed assets
- ▼18%
- Now £807k
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
- Gulmay Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Gulmay Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- West-Tek 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 Mar 2025 (profit £539k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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