NL Group Limited
Registered name: NL GROUP LIMITED
Part of NL Group (Holdings) Limited groupNL Group Limited made £16.4m revenue and £3.6m profit in the year to 30 Sep 2024.
NL Group Limited’s revenue fell 10% to £16.4m in the year to 30 Sep 2024, with £3.6m profit and 255 employees. The company is classified under “other activities of employment placement agencies” and is based in Hull; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Hull, Yorkshire and The Humber
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £16.2m | £18.3m | £16.4m |
| Cost of sales | £9.2m | £11.2m | £9.8m |
| Gross profit | £7m | £7.1m | £6.6m |
| Operating profit | £5.3m | £4.7m | £4.5m |
| Profit before tax | £5.3m | £4.7m | £4.7m |
| Profit after tax | £4.3m | £3.6m | £3.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £4.3m | £3.6m | £3.6m |
| Staff costs | £7.4m | £9m | — |
| Employees (average) | 209 | 248 | 255 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 26.7% | 19.8% | 21.6% |
| Gross margin | 43% | 38.7% | 40% |
| Revenue per employee | £77.4k | £73.6k | £64.4k |
| Profit per employee | £20.7k | £14.6k | £13.9k |
| Cash conversion | 74.1% | 77.5% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲12.8% | ▼10.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼16.2% | ▼1.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲18.7% | ▲2.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £5m | £7.5m | — |
| Net assets | £7.4m | £10.9m | — |
| Fixed assets | £196k | £148k | — |
| Current assets | £8.4m | £12m | — |
| Debtors | £2.4m | £1.8m | — |
| Deferred income | £162k | £278k | — |
| Cash from operations | £4m | £3.6m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jun 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 21.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 40%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £64.4k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £13.9k
- 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
- ▲3%
- Now 255
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- NL Group (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- NL Group Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- NL Supported Living 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 Sep 2024 (profit £3.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 19 Oct 2026
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