Europlast (Blackburn) Limited
Registered name: EUROPLAST (BLACKBURN) LIMITED
Europlast (Blackburn) Limited made £10.8m revenue and £801k profit in the year to 30 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Europlast (Blackburn) Limited’s revenue was £10.8m in the year to 30 Mar 2025, with £801k profit and 69 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of plastic packing goods” and is based in Blackburn; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Blackburn, North West
- Age
- 33 yrs · since 1993
- 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 parent company of Europlast (Blackburn) Limited is EP Holdings Limited, a company registered in Jersey.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Mar 2022 | 30 Mar 2023 | 30 Mar 2024 | 30 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) | £12.3m | £12.4m | £10.8m | £10.8m |
| Cost of sales | £6.9m | £6.7m | £4.9m | £5.2m |
| Gross profit | £5.4m | £5.6m | £6m | £5.6m |
| Operating profit | £1.5m | £1.3m | £1.5m | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | £1.4m | £1.3m | £1.5m | £1.1m |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £1.1m | £1.1m | £801k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £1.1m | £1.1m | £801k |
| Staff costs | £1.5m | £1.5m | £1.6m | £1.9m |
| Employees (average) | 71 | 71 | 71 | 69 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 9.3% | 9% | 10.4% | 7.4% |
| Gross margin | 43.6% | 45.5% | 55% | 51.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £174k | £174k | £152k | £156k |
| Profit per employee | £16.2k | £15.8k | £15.9k | £11.6k |
| Cash conversion | −62.1% | −98.6% | −162.9% | −72.7% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲0.5% | ▼12.6% | ▼0.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼2.5% | ▲1% | ▼29.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% | ▼2.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2.4m | £3.6m | £4.4m | £4.6m |
| Net assets | £6.5m | £7.6m | £8m | £8.8m |
| Fixed assets | £1.8m | £1.6m | £1.9m | £1.9m |
| Current assets | £7.3m | £8.1m | £8.4m | £9.2m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £1.4m | £1.5m | £1.3m |
| Deferred income | £3k | £0 | £119k | £202k |
| Cash from operations | −£921k | −£1.3m | −£2.5m | −£788k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 51.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £156k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −72.7%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 17.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11.7%
- 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
- ▲10%
- Now £8.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▲3%
- Now £4.6m
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 69
- Deferred income
- ▲70%
- Now £202k
- Fixed assets
- ▼2%
- Now £1.9m
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 30 Mar 2025 (profit £801k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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