Shimano UK Limited
Registered name: SHIMANO UK LIMITED
Shimano UK Limited made £6m revenue and £219k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Shimano UK Limited’s revenue grew 17% to £6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £219k profit and 16 employees. The company is classified under “non-specialised wholesale trade” and is based in Coventry; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Coventry, West Midlands
- Age
- 37 yrs · since 1988
- 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 Company is a subsidiary undertaking of Shimano Inc which is the ultimate parent company incorporated in Japan. The ultimate controlling party are the shareholders of Shimano Inc.”
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) | £6.1m | £5.2m | £6m |
| Cost of sales | £4m | £3.2m | £4m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £2m | £2m |
| Operating profit | £232k | £146k | £189k |
| Profit before tax | £257k | £177k | £219k |
| Profit (best available) | £257k | £177k | £219k |
| Staff costs | £798k | £782k | £852k |
| Employees (average) | 16 | 17 | 16 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.2% | 3.4% | 3.6% |
| Gross margin | 35.3% | 38.2% | 33.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £384k | £303k | £376k |
| Profit per employee | £16.1k | £10.4k | £13.7k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼16.1% | ▲16.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼31.1% | ▲23.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲6.3% | ▼5.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2m | £2.3m | £2.4m |
| Net assets | £2.1m | £2.2m | £1.8m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 33.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £376k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £13.7k
- 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
- ▼20%
- Now £1.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▲4%
- Now £2.4m
- Headcount
- ▼6%
- Now 16
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £219k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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