Specialist Door Solutions Ltd
Registered name: SPECIALIST DOOR SOLUTIONS LTD
Part of SDS Protection (Holdings) Limited groupSpecialist Door Solutions Ltd made £9.9m revenue and £546k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Specialist Door Solutions Ltd’s revenue fell 16% to £9.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £546k profit and 59 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Woking; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Woking, South East
- Age
- 25 yrs · since 2001
- 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: “The company's ultimate and immediate parent company is SDS Protection (Holdings) Limited, a company registered in England. The Registered office is Chancery House, 30 St Johns Road, Woking, Surrey GU2”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.2m | £11.8m | £9.9m |
| Cost of sales | £5.4m | £4.6m | £4.2m |
| Gross profit | £5.8m | £7.2m | £5.7m |
| Operating profit | £2.7m | £3.3m | £754k |
| Profit before tax | £2.6m | £3.3m | £744k |
| Profit after tax | £2.4m | £3.1m | £546k |
| Profit (best available) | £2.4m | £3.1m | £546k |
| Staff costs | £2.5m | £3.1m | £3.3m |
| Employees (average) | 61 | 64 | 59 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 21.5% | 26.4% | 5.5% |
| Gross margin | 52.1% | 61.1% | 57.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £184k | £185k | £168k |
| Profit per employee | £39.5k | £48.7k | £9.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲5.5% | ▼15.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲29.4% | ▼82.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲4.9% | ▼7.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £960k | £866k | £994k |
| Net assets | £2.8m | £4.1m | £2.7m |
| Fixed assets | £2.2m | £2.2m | £2m |
| Current assets | £2.7m | £3.6m | £4.1m |
| Debtors | £803k | £1.2m | £796k |
| Deferred income | £205k | £144k | £858k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 57.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £168k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £9.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 19.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 8.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 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
- ▼34%
- Now £2.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲15%
- Now £994k
- Headcount
- ▼8%
- Now 59
- Deferred income
- ▲497%
- Now £858k
- Fixed assets
- ▼8%
- Now £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
- SDS Protection (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Specialist Door Solutions Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- SDS Protection 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 Dec 2024 (profit £546k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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