Quick Release (Automotive) Limited
Registered name: QUICK RELEASE (AUTOMOTIVE) LIMITED
Part of Alten Europe Sarl groupQuick Release (Automotive) Limited made £20.5m revenue and £3.2m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Quick Release (Automotive) Limited’s revenue fell 12% to £20.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £3.2m profit and 242 employees. The company is classified under “management consultancy activities other than financial management” and is based in 6-10 Kirby Street; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- 6-10 Kirby Street, London
- Age
- 23 yrs · since 2003
- 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 immediate parent company is Quite Refreshing Limited.”
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 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £16.9m | £19.7m | £14.7m | £23.4m | £20.5m |
| Cost of sales | £12.2m | £11.2m | £9.9m | £14m | £13.8m |
| Gross profit | £4.7m | £8.5m | £4.8m | £9.4m | £6.7m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £3.8m | £1.2m | £5.8m | £3.6m |
| Profit before tax | £1.2m | £6.6m | £1.3m | £15.2m | £4.3m |
| Profit after tax | £962k | £5.9m | £967k | £13.9m | £3.2m |
| Profit (best available) | £962k | £5.9m | £967k | £13.9m | £3.2m |
| Staff costs | — | — | £9.1m | £13.4m | £13.4m |
| Employees (average) | 155 | 203 | 252 | 245 | 242 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 5.7% | 29.9% | 6.6% | 59.3% | 15.8% |
| Gross margin | 27.8% | 43.2% | 32.6% | 40.2% | 32.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £109k | £97k | £58.2k | £95.5k | £84.9k |
| Profit per employee | £6.2k | £29k | £3.8k | £56.6k | £13.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲16.6% | — | — | ▼12.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲511.1% | — | — | ▼76.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲31% | — | — | ▼1.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £1.6m | £7.1m | £851k | £1.2m | £572 |
| Net assets | £5.5m | £7.9m | £8.8m | £19.7m | £5m |
| Fixed assets | £495k | £148k | £143k | £64.6k | £43.2k |
| Current assets | £20.8m | £26m | £21.2m | £23.6m | £7.2m |
| Debtors | £2.9m | £6.3m | £5m | £4.4m | £3.8m |
| Deferred income | £737k | £723k | £798k | £514k | £520k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 15.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 32.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £84.9k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £13.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 18.4%
- 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
- ▼75%
- Now £5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼100%
- Now £572
- Headcount
- ▼1%
- Now 242
- Deferred income
- ▲1%
- Now £520k
- Fixed assets
- ▼33%
- Now £43.2k
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
- Alten Europe Sarl (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Quite Refreshing Limited75–100%
- Quick Release (Automotive) Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
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 2025 (profit £3.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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