Hilco Profit Recovery Limited
Registered name: HILCO PROFIT RECOVERY LIMITED
Part of Orix Corporation groupHilco Profit Recovery Limited made £357k revenue and a £179k loss in the year to 28 Dec 2024.
Hilco Profit Recovery Limited’s revenue fell 42% to £357k in the year to 28 Dec 2024, with a loss of £179k and 4 employees. The company is classified under “other professional, scientific and technical activities” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 12 yrs · since 2014
- 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 | 28 Dec 2023 | 30 Dec 2023 | 28 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £621k | £621k | £357k |
| Cost of sales | −£4.8k | £4.8k | −£88 |
| Gross profit | £616k | £616k | £357k |
| Operating profit | £107k | £107k | −£179k |
| Profit before tax | £107k | — | −£179k |
| Profit after tax | £107k | £107k | −£179k |
| Profit (best available) | £107k | £107k | −£179k |
| Employees (average) | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 17.2% | 17.2% | −50.2% |
| Gross margin | 99.2% | 99.2% | 100% |
| Revenue per employee | £155k | £155k | £89.3k |
| Profit per employee | £26.7k | £26.7k | −£44.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▼42.5% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼267.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | — | £10.4k | — |
| Net assets | — | −£44.8k | — |
| Fixed assets | — | £1 | — |
| Current assets | — | £1m | — |
| Debtors | — | £318k | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −50.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 100%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £89.3k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£44.8k
- 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
- 0%
- Now 4
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Orix Corporation (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent50–75%
- Hilco London Limited75–100%
- Hilco Capital Limited75–100%
- Hilco Investments Limited50–75%
- Hilco Profit Recovery Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- The Profit Recovery Company 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 28 Dec 2024 (profit −£179k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 18 Oct 2026
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