Tancia Limited
Registered name: TANCIA LIMITED
Part of Tancia (Holdings) Limited groupTancia Limited made £10.8m revenue and £221k profit in the year to 31 May 2025.
Tancia Limited’s revenue fell 4% to £10.8m in the year to 31 May 2025, with £221k profit and 119 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in Aldershot; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Aldershot, South East
- Age
- 32 yrs · since 1994
- 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 May 2022 | 31 May 2023 | 31 May 2024 | 31 May 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £8.4m | £10.7m | £11.2m | £10.8m |
| Cost of sales | £5.9m | £7.6m | £7.5m | £7.4m |
| Gross profit | £2.5m | £3.1m | £3.7m | £3.4m |
| Operating profit | −£165k | £369k | £547k | £562k |
| Profit before tax | −£321k | £161k | £242k | £276k |
| Profit after tax | −£299k | £55.9k | £183k | £221k |
| Profit (best available) | −£299k | £55.9k | £183k | £221k |
| Staff costs | £2.7m | £4m | £4.3m | £3.9m |
| Employees (average) | 92 | 129 | 132 | 119 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | −3.6% | 0.5% | 1.6% | 2.1% |
| Gross margin | 29.9% | 28.7% | 32.8% | 31.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £91.4k | £83k | £85k | £90.8k |
| Profit per employee | −£3.3k | £433 | £1.4k | £1.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲27.4% | ▲4.8% | ▼3.7% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲227.8% | ▲20.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲40.2% | ▲2.3% | ▼9.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £48k | £7.5k | £24.6k | £236k |
| Net assets | £6.1m | £6.1m | £6.3m | £6.4m |
| Fixed assets | £8.3m | £8.7m | £8.4m | £8.1m |
| Current assets | £4.4m | £4.3m | £5.1m | £4.5m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £1.5m | £1.8m | £1.2m |
| Deferred income | £197k | £101k | £177k | £131k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £90.8k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 75.2%
- 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
- 11.5%
- 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
- ▲3%
- Now £6.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲860%
- Now £236k
- Headcount
- ▼10%
- Now 119
- Deferred income
- ▼26%
- Now £131k
- Fixed assets
- ▼3%
- Now £8.1m
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
- Tancia (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Tancia Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 May 2025 (profit £221k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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