Esterform Packaging Limited
Registered name: ESTERFORM PACKAGING LIMITED
Part of Biffa Holdco Limited groupEsterform Packaging Limited made £1.7m profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025 (revenue not disclosed).
Esterform Packaging Limited reported £1.7m profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025, up 156% on the year before; its revenue was not disclosed. It had 223 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of plastic packing goods” and is based in High Wycombe; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- High Wycombe, South East
- Age
- 28 yrs · since 1998
- 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
This company published its profit but not its turnover, so revenue and margins are not disclosed. We never estimate them.
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 29 Sep 2023 | 27 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Profit only |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £102m | £82.4m | — |
| Cost of sales | £84.6m | £62.8m | — |
| Gross profit | £17.7m | £19.6m | — |
| Operating profit | £6.6m | £7.8m | — |
| Profit before tax | −£3.5m | £156k | — |
| Profit after tax | −£3.4m | £651k | £1.7m |
| Profit (best available) | −£3.4m | £651k | £1.7m |
| Staff costs | £8.6m | £9.7m | — |
| Employees (average) | 212 | 215 | 223 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −3.3% | 0.8% | — |
| Gross margin | 17.3% | 23.8% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £483k | £383k | — |
| Profit per employee | −£15.8k | £3k | £7.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼19.4% | — |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲156.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.4% | ▲3.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £580k | £1.5m | £1.1m |
| Net assets | £1.4m | £2m | £3.7m |
| Fixed assets | £22.8m | £20.9m | £16.9m |
| Current assets | £41.9m | £43.4m | £36.9m |
| Debtors | £17.2m | £18.8m | £17.2m |
| Deferred income | £3.8m | £3.1m | £3.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £7.5k
- 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
- ▲83%
- Now £3.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼25%
- Now £1.1m
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 223
- Deferred income
- ▲7%
- Now £3.3m
- Fixed assets
- ▼20%
- Now £16.9m
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
- Biffa Holdco Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Biffa Midco Limited75–100%
- Biffa Bidco Limited75–100%
- Biffa Limited75–100%
- Biffa Group Limited75–100%
- Biffa Group Holdings (UK) Limited75–100%
- Biffa Corporate Holdings Limited75–100%
- Reclamation and Disposal Limited75–100%
- Biffa Holdings Limited75–100%
- Biffa Waste Services Limited75–100%
- Esterform Packaging Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Pet Plas Packaging LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Primepac LtdFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (15)
- Keenan (Recycling) LimitedRev. £17.1m · Profit £116k
- Biffa Environmental Municipal Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Biffa Landfill Solutions Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Biffa Pension Scheme Trustees LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Chamley Holdings LimitedRev. — · Profit −£6.8k
- Coastal C&i LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offFigures not disclosed
- Company Shop LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Esterpet LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Everything Managed Group LimitedRev. — · Profit −£92.2k
- Forge Recycling (Holdings) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hamilton Waste & Recycling LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hazrem Environmental LtdFigures not disclosed
- Specialist Waste Recycling LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Syracuse Waste LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Total Recycling Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 (profit £1.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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