SPC Europe Limited
Registered name: SPC EUROPE LIMITED
Part of SPC Corporate Limited groupSPC Europe Limited made £33m revenue and £1.1m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2024.
SPC Europe Limited’s revenue fell 9% to £33m in the year to 31 Mar 2024, with £1.1m profit and 84 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other rubber products” and is based in Westbury; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Westbury, South West
- Age
- 25 yrs · since 2000
- 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 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £29m | £36.1m | £33m |
| Cost of sales | £23.3m | £30.2m | £26.6m |
| Gross profit | £5.7m | £5.9m | £6.4m |
| Operating profit | £2.7m | £2.4m | £1.8m |
| Profit before tax | £2.7m | £2.3m | £1.8m |
| Profit after tax | £2.3m | £1.9m | £1.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.3m | £1.9m | £1.1m |
| Staff costs | £3.6m | £4.2m | £4.8m |
| Employees (average) | 79 | 82 | 84 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 7.9% | 5.2% | 3.3% |
| Gross margin | 19.6% | 16.5% | 19.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £368k | £441k | £393k |
| Profit per employee | £29.1k | £23.1k | £12.9k |
| Cash conversion | 8.8% | −48.1% | −139.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲24.4% | ▼8.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼17.8% | ▼42.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.8% | ▲2.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.3m | £2.1m | £775k |
| Net assets | £10.3m | £11.9m | £12.8m |
| Fixed assets | £3.8m | £4.7m | £5.8m |
| Current assets | £15.2m | £17.3m | £15.3m |
| Debtors | £5.9m | £7.7m | £6.2m |
| Deferred income | £1.4m | £1.5m | £1.6m |
| Cash from operations | £240k | −£1.1m | −£2.5m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 19.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £393k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £12.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −139.3%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 17.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 18.8%
- 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
- ▲8%
- Now £12.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼64%
- Now £775k
- Headcount
- ▲2%
- Now 84
- Deferred income
- ▲9%
- Now £1.6m
- Fixed assets
- ▲25%
- Now £5.8m
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
- SPC Corporate Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- SPC Europe Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Atr Compounding LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (4)
- Evolve Lubricants LtdFigures not disclosed
- Nova Motorsport LimitedFigures not disclosed
- SPC Information Systems LimitedFigures not disclosed
- SPC IP LtdFigures 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 31 Mar 2024 (profit £1.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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