Ultracell (UK) Limited
Registered name: ULTRACELL (UK) LIMITED
Ultracell (UK) Limited made £12.7m revenue and £709k profit in the year to 30 Nov 2025. read from filing text
Ultracell (UK) Limited’s revenue fell 16% to £12.7m in the year to 30 Nov 2025, with £709k profit and 22 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of batteries and accumulators” and is based in Bootle; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bootle, North West
- Age
- 24 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 is controlled by D Murray and M McGuinness by virtue of their shareholding”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Nov 2022 | 30 Nov 2023 | 30 Nov 2024 | 30 Nov 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £19.4m | £15.9m | £15.1m | £12.7m |
| Cost of sales | £16.8m | £12.8m | £12.2m | £9.8m |
| Gross profit | £2.7m | £3.1m | £2.9m | £2.9m |
| Operating profit | £419k | £1.3m | £1m | £1m |
| Profit before tax | £440k | £1.3m | £1m | £1m |
| Profit after tax | £492k | £1.1m | £587k | £709k |
| Profit (best available) | £492k | £1.1m | £587k | £709k |
| Staff costs | £734k | £789k | £651k | £644k |
| Employees (average) | 24 | 28 | 24 | 22 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2.5% | 6.9% | 3.9% | 5.6% |
| Gross margin | 13.7% | 19.5% | 19.4% | 22.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £810k | £567k | £631k | £575k |
| Profit per employee | £20.5k | £39.1k | £24.5k | £32.2k |
| Cash conversion | −6.9% | −61.6% | −175.2% | −39.8% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼18.3% | ▼4.7% | ▼16.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲122.3% | ▼46.3% | ▲20.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲16.7% | ▼14.3% | ▼8.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.7m | £974k | £2.5m | £1.3m |
| Net assets | £1m | £861k | £1m | £1.2m |
| Fixed assets | £1.8m | £2m | £2.5m | £2.5m |
| Current assets | £4.1m | £3.3m | £4.5m | £3.1m |
| Debtors | £495k | £369k | £535k | £394k |
| Deferred income | — | — | £87.4k | £49k |
| Cash from operations | −£29k | −£812k | −£1.8m | −£406k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £575k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £32.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −39.8%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 20%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 3.1%
- 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
- ▲21%
- Now £1.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼46%
- Now £1.3m
- Headcount
- ▼8%
- Now 22
- Deferred income
- ▼44%
- Now £49k
- Fixed assets
- ▲1%
- Now £2.5m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Nov 2025 (profit £709k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 17 Oct 2026
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