Killgerm Chemicals Limited
Registered name: KILLGERM CHEMICALS LIMITED
Killgerm Chemicals Limited made £24.3m revenue and £718k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Killgerm Chemicals Limited’s revenue grew 7% to £24.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £718k profit and 66 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other chemical products” and is based in Ossett; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Ossett, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 33 yrs · since 1993
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £19.5m | £22.7m | £24.3m |
| Cost of sales | £14.3m | £16.2m | £17.3m |
| Gross profit | £5.2m | £6.5m | £7m |
| Operating profit | −£182k | £784k | £885k |
| Profit before tax | −£207k | £715k | £838k |
| Profit after tax | −£207k | £590k | £718k |
| Profit (best available) | −£207k | £590k | £718k |
| Staff costs | £2.6m | £2.7m | £2.8m |
| Employees (average) | 66 | 68 | 66 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −1.1% | 2.6% | 2.9% |
| Gross margin | 26.6% | 28.5% | 28.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £296k | £333k | £368k |
| Profit per employee | −£3.1k | £8.7k | £10.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲16% | ▲7.2% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲21.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3% | ▼2.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.7m | £3.1k | £3.1k |
| Net assets | £2.5m | £2.9m | £3.4m |
| Current assets | £6.2m | £5.6m | £6.8m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £1.9m | £2.2m |
| Deferred income | £863k | £832k | £620k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 28.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £368k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10.9k
- 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
- 2.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 8.9%
- 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
- ▲18%
- Now £3.4m
- Cash at bank
- 0%
- Now £3.1k
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 66
- Deferred income
- ▼25%
- Now £620k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit £718k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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