GR8 Security Limited
Registered name: GR8 SECURITY LIMITED
Part of Ocs Holdco 2 Limited groupGR8 Security Limited made £0 revenue and £0 profit in the year to 30 Jun 2024.
GR8 Security Limited’s revenue was £0 in the year to 30 Jun 2024, with £0 profit. The company is classified under “private security activities” and is based in Peterborough; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Liquidation
- Location
- Peterborough, East of England
- Age
- 18 yrs · since 2008
- 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 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £16m | £14.8m | £0 |
| Cost of sales | £14.4m | £12.7m | £0 |
| Gross profit | £1.6m | £2.1m | £0 |
| Operating profit | £293k | £776k | £32.9k |
| Profit before tax | £162k | £569k | £0 |
| Profit after tax | £127k | £454k | £0 |
| Profit (best available) | £127k | £454k | £0 |
| Staff costs | £3.3m | £3.8m | — |
| Employees (average) | 144 | 89 | — |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.8% | 3.1% | — |
| Gross margin | 10% | 14.2% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £111k | £166k | — |
| Profit per employee | £885 | £5.1k | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £382k | £0 | — |
| Net assets | £1.7m | £3 | — |
| Fixed assets | £7.5k | £0 | — |
| Current assets | £6.8m | £313k | — |
| Debtors | £2.9m | £0 | — |
| Deferred income | £642k | £0 | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
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- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
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- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
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- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
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- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
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- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
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- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
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- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
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- 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
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- Now —
- Cash at bank
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- Headcount
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- Deferred income
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- Fixed assets
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Group structure
Ownership chain
- Ocs Holdco 2 Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Ocs Holdco 3 Limited75–100%
- Ocs Holdco 4 Limited75–100%
- Ocs Parco Limited75–100%
- Ocs Group Holdings Limited75–100%
- Ocs Group Investments Limited75–100%
- Ocs Group International Limited75–100%
- Ocs Uk&i Limited75–100%
- Ocs Group UK Limited75–100%
- WBW City Holdings Ltd75–100%
- GR8 Security Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (4)
- City Group Security LimitedRev. £34.7m · Profit £510k
- Businesswatch Guarding Services LimitedLiquidationFigures not disclosed
- K9 Security Holdings LimitedLiquidationFigures not disclosed
- Sight & Sound Security LimitedLiquidationFigures 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 Jun 2024 (profit £0), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 22 Oct 2026
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