Nal Limited
Registered name: NAL LIMITED
Part of Crh Plc groupNal Limited made £23m revenue and £4.8m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Nal Limited’s revenue fell 11% to £23m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £4.8m profit and 41 employees. The company is classified under “agents specialized in the sale of other particular products” and is based in Worcester; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Worcester, West Midlands
- Age
- 29 yrs · since 1996
- 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: “NAL Developments Limited, a company incorporated in Great Britain and registered in England and Wales, is the immediate holding 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 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 | 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 | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £19.9m | £22.4m | £21.1m | £25.7m | £23m |
| Cost of sales | £12.3m | £13.5m | £14m | £13.6m | £11.5m |
| Gross profit | £7.6m | £8.9m | £7.1m | £12.1m | £11.4m |
| Operating profit | £4.5m | £5.1m | £1.9m | £6.5m | £5.4m |
| Profit before tax | £4.4m | £5.2m | £2.5m | £7.3m | £6.5m |
| Profit after tax | £3.5m | £4.2m | £1.8m | £5.4m | £4.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.5m | £4.2m | £1.8m | £5.4m | £4.8m |
| Staff costs | £1.2m | £1.4m | £1.6m | £1.8m | £1.4m |
| Employees (average) | 27 | 33 | 43 | 47 | 41 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 17.8% | 18.6% | 8.5% | 21% | 21.1% |
| Gross margin | 38.1% | 39.6% | 33.5% | 47% | 49.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £738k | £679k | £492k | £547k | £560k |
| Profit per employee | £131k | £126k | £42k | £115k | £118k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲12.5% | ▼5.7% | ▲21.6% | ▼10.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲18% | ▼56.8% | ▲199.3% | ▼10.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲22.2% | ▲30.3% | ▲9.3% | ▼12.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £11.3m | £12.9m | £14.4m | £21.6m | £12.3m |
| Net assets | £12.1m | £16.3m | £18.1m | £23.5m | £13.1m |
| Fixed assets | £1.8m | £2.4m | £3m | £3.2m | £3.2m |
| Current assets | £18.6m | £21.5m | £25.2m | £30.9m | £20.8m |
| Debtors | £4.1m | £3.5m | £3.2m | £2.7m | £2.8m |
| Deferred income | £892k | £371k | £444k | £414k | £387k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 21.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 49.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £560k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £118k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 14.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.1%
- 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
- ▼44%
- Now £13.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼43%
- Now £12.3m
- Headcount
- ▼13%
- Now 41
- Deferred income
- ▼7%
- Now £387k
- Fixed assets
- ▲1%
- Now £3.2m
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
- Crh Plc (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- CRH (UK) Limited75–100%
- CRH Building Products Limited75–100%
- Northstone Materials Limited75–100%
- Cubis Systems Limited75–100%
- Nal Developments Limited75–100%
- Nal 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 Dec 2025 (profit £4.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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