Avia Technique Limited
Registered name: AVIA TECHNIQUE LIMITED
Part of Bridgepoint Group Holdings Limited groupAvia Technique Limited made £27.6m revenue and £3.7m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2023.
Avia Technique Limited’s revenue grew 38% to £27.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2023, with £3.7m profit and 115 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery” and is based in Wokingham; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wokingham, South East
- Age
- 24 yrs · since 2002
- 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 Dec 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.4m | £19.9m | £27.6m |
| Cost of sales | £7.5m | £10.5m | £16.3m |
| Gross profit | £5.9m | £9.5m | £11.3m |
| Operating profit | £1.9m | £4.2m | £4.4m |
| Profit before tax | £1.9m | £4.3m | £4.3m |
| Profit after tax | £1.6m | £3.5m | £3.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.6m | £3.5m | £3.7m |
| Staff costs | £2.3m | £3.3m | £4m |
| Employees (average) | 74 | 95 | 115 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 11.9% | 17.7% | 13.6% |
| Gross margin | 43.9% | 47.6% | 40.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £181k | £210k | £240k |
| Profit per employee | £21.5k | £37.1k | £32.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲48.7% | ▲38.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲121.5% | ▲6.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲28.4% | ▲21.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £368k | £629k | £651k |
| Net assets | £3.9m | £6.6m | £9.2m |
| Fixed assets | £373k | £1.2m | £1.7m |
| Current assets | £5.6m | £9.3m | £11.5m |
| Debtors | £1.8m | £3.3m | £3.4m |
| Deferred income | £777k | £898k | £1.3m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 13.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 40.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £240k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £32.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 6.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.4%
- 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
- ▲40%
- Now £9.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲4%
- Now £651k
- Headcount
- ▲21%
- Now 115
- Deferred income
- ▲45%
- Now £1.3m
- Fixed assets
- ▲36%
- Now £1.7m
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
- Bridgepoint Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Bridgepoint Advisers Group Limited75–100%
- Bridgepoint Advisers Holdings75–100%
- BDC IV Nominees Limited75–100%
- Salus Topco Limited75–100%
- Salus Midco 1 Limited75–100%
- Salus Midco 2 Limited75–100%
- Salus Bidco Limited75–100%
- Skaero UK Limited75–100%
- Avia Technique Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Meridian Technical 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 31 Dec 2023 (profit £3.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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