Centrado Trading Limited
Registered name: CENTRADO TRADING LIMITED
Part of Centrado Group Limited groupCentrado Trading Limited made £29.7m revenue and £3.5m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Centrado Trading Limited’s revenue grew 8% to £29.7m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £3.5m profit and 120 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Huntingdon; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Huntingdon, East of England
- Age
- 14 yrs · since 2012
- 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 | 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) | £23.4m | £24.6m | £25.7m | £27.5m | £29.7m |
| Cost of sales | £15m | £15.6m | £15.9m | £16.7m | £17.4m |
| Gross profit | £8.4m | £9m | £9.9m | £10.8m | £12.3m |
| Operating profit | £3.7m | £3.4m | £3.1m | £3.6m | £4.6m |
| Profit before tax | £3.7m | £3.4m | £3.1m | £3.6m | £4.6m |
| Profit after tax | £3m | £2.7m | £2.6m | £2.6m | £3.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £3m | £2.7m | £2.6m | £2.6m | £3.5m |
| Staff costs | £3.2m | £3.7m | £4m | £4.5m | £5m |
| Employees (average) | 112 | 115 | 111 | 116 | 120 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 12.9% | 11.2% | 9.9% | 9.5% | 11.7% |
| Gross margin | 35.8% | 36.5% | 38.3% | 39.3% | 41.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £209k | £214k | £232k | £237k | £248k |
| Profit per employee | £26.9k | £23.9k | £23k | £22.6k | £28.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲5.3% | ▲4.4% | ▲6.9% | ▲8.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼8.9% | ▼7.1% | ▲2.7% | ▲32.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2.7% | ▼3.5% | ▲4.5% | ▲3.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £1.3m | £3.9m | £4m | £3.1m | £4m |
| Net assets | £7.9m | £9.6m | £11.2m | £10.8m | £12.8m |
| Fixed assets | £900k | £2m | £2.1m | £2m | £2m |
| Debtors | £4.4m | £4.3m | £4.7m | £4.9m | £5.4m |
| Deferred income | £86.6k | £816k | £287k | £331k | £453k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 11.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 41.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £248k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £28.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 6.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 18.2%
- 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
- ▲19%
- Now £12.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▲31%
- Now £4m
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 120
- Deferred income
- ▲37%
- Now £453k
- Fixed assets
- ▼2%
- Now £2m
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
- Centrado Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Centrado Trading Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Centrado Investments LimitedRev. — · Profit £225k
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 £3.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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