Emplas Window Systems Limited
Registered name: EMPLAS WINDOW SYSTEMS LIMITED
Part of Lilliput Holdings Limited groupEmplas Window Systems Limited made £61.5m revenue and £2.3m profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025.
Emplas Window Systems Limited’s revenue grew 12% to £61.5m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £2.3m profit and 421 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other plastic products” and is based in Wellingborough; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wellingborough, East Midlands
- Age
- 41 yrs · since 1985
- 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 | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £49.8m | £54.9m | £61.5m |
| Cost of sales | £37.6m | £40.3m | £42.3m |
| Gross profit | £12.2m | £14.6m | £19.1m |
| Operating profit | £2.9m | £2.9m | £3.3m |
| Profit before tax | £2.8m | £2.9m | £3.3m |
| Profit after tax | £2.5m | £2.1m | £2.3m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.5m | £2.1m | £2.3m |
| Staff costs | £12.3m | £15.5m | £17.7m |
| Employees (average) | 338 | 377 | 421 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 5% | 3.8% | 3.7% |
| Gross margin | 24.5% | 26.6% | 31.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £147k | £146k | £146k |
| Profit per employee | £7.4k | £5.5k | £5.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲10.3% | ▲11.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼16.7% | ▲10% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲11.5% | ▲11.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £911k | £426k | £1.6m |
| Net assets | £9.1m | £11m | £12.3m |
| Fixed assets | £2.5m | £3.9m | £4.1m |
| Current assets | £15.7m | £16.1m | £21.6m |
| Debtors | £5.3m | £5.4m | £5.7m |
| Deferred income | £857k | £981k | £744k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £146k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 6.6%
- 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
- 9.3%
- 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
- ▲13%
- Now £12.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲271%
- Now £1.6m
- Headcount
- ▲12%
- Now 421
- Deferred income
- ▼24%
- Now £744k
- Fixed assets
- ▲5%
- Now £4.1m
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
- Lilliput Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Emplas Window Systems Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Emplas Commercial (North) LtdFigures not disclosed
- T & K Home Improvements LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (3)
- Character Homes (Wellingborough) LimitedRev. — · Profit £173k
- Eva CRM LtdFigures not disclosed
- Lilliput Glass Holdings 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 30 Apr 2025 (profit £2.3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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