SBZ Corporation Limited
Registered name: SBZ CORPORATION LIMITED
Part of SBZ Group Ltd groupSBZ Corporation Limited made £63.2m revenue and £2.4m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
SBZ Corporation Limited’s revenue grew 13% to £63.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2.4m profit and 32 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other inorganic basic chemicals” and is based in Wickford; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wickford, East of England
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £61m | £56m | £63.2m |
| Cost of sales | £51.2m | £46.1m | £51.8m |
| Gross profit | £9.8m | £9.9m | £11.4m |
| Operating profit | £3.2m | £3.3m | £3.9m |
| Profit before tax | £2.5m | £2.6m | £3.2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.9m | £2.3m | £2.4m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.9m | £2.3m | £2.4m |
| Staff costs | £3.2m | £3.3m | — |
| Employees (average) | 30 | 28 | 32 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 3.1% | 4.1% | 3.9% |
| Gross margin | 16.1% | 17.7% | 18.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £2m | £2m | £2m |
| Profit per employee | £64.1k | £81.7k | £76.5k |
| Cash conversion | −119.8% | −105.6% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼8.3% | ▲13% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲19% | ▲7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼6.7% | ▲14.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £416k | £351k | — |
| Net assets | £4m | £5.3m | — |
| Fixed assets | £1.4m | £1.4m | — |
| Current assets | £19.1m | £16.4m | — |
| Debtors | £8.7m | £5.9m | — |
| Cash from operations | −£3.8m | −£3.5m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 18.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £2m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £76.5k
- 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
- ▲14%
- Now 32
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- SBZ Group Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- SBZ Corporation Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (5)
- Holder Family LtdFigures not disclosed
- Pulse Refrigeration LimitedFigures not disclosed
- SBZ Chemicals LtdFigures not disclosed
- SBZ Equine LtdFigures not disclosed
- Winged Horse 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit £2.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 25 Oct 2026
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