Active-PCB Solutions Limited
Registered name: ACTIVE-PCB SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Part of PJ George Topco Ltd groupActive-PCB Solutions Limited made £25.6m revenue and £1.2m profit in the year to 30 Apr 2024.
Active-PCB Solutions Limited’s revenue fell 16% to £25.6m in the year to 30 Apr 2024, with £1.2m profit and 182 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other electrical equipment” and is based in Reading; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Reading, South East
- Age
- 29 yrs · since 1997
- 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 | 30 Apr 2022 | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £22.3m | £30.5m | £25.6m |
| Cost of sales | £17.1m | £24.7m | −£20m |
| Gross profit | £5.2m | £5.8m | £5.6m |
| Operating profit | £2.2m | £2.4m | £1.8m |
| Profit before tax | £2.1m | £2.2m | £1.7m |
| Profit after tax | £2m | £2m | £1.2m |
| Profit (best available) | £2m | £2m | £1.2m |
| Staff costs | £4.7m | £5.9m | — |
| Employees (average) | 154 | 167 | 182 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 8.8% | 6.5% | 4.8% |
| Gross margin | 23.2% | 19.2% | 22% |
| Revenue per employee | £145k | £183k | £141k |
| Profit per employee | £12.8k | £11.8k | £6.7k |
| Cash conversion | 81% | 48.4% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲36.8% | ▼16.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲0.4% | ▼38% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8.4% | ▲9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £693k | £965k | — |
| Net assets | £3.4m | £5m | — |
| Fixed assets | £479k | £662k | — |
| Current assets | £12.5m | £12.6m | — |
| Debtors | £3.4m | £3.6m | — |
| Deferred income | £442k | £530k | — |
| Cash from operations | £1.8m | £1.2m | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £141k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.7k
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲9%
- Now 182
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- PJ George Topco Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- PJ George Midco Ltd75–100%
- Agile Circuit Technology Group Ltd.75–100%
- Active-PCB Solutions Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Gocl Bidco LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Apr 2024 (profit £1.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 19 Oct 2026
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