Elisa Polystar UK Ltd
Registered name: ELISA POLYSTAR UK LTD
Part of Elisa Oyj (Elisa Corporation) groupElisa Polystar UK Ltd made £7.6m revenue and £128k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Elisa Polystar UK Ltd’s revenue fell 25% to £7.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £128k profit and 13 employees. The company is classified under “other software publishing” and is based in Reading; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Reading, South East
- Age
- 11 yrs · since 2015
- 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) | £7.1m | £10.1m | £7.6m |
| Cost of sales | −£1.9m | −£3.6m | −£2.3m |
| Gross profit | £5.2m | £6.6m | £5.4m |
| Operating profit | −£391k | £178k | £200k |
| Profit before tax | −£473k | £196k | £75.4k |
| Profit after tax | −£691k | £196k | £128k |
| Profit (best available) | −£691k | £196k | £128k |
| Employees (average) | 13 | 14 | 13 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −9.7% | 1.9% | 1.7% |
| Gross margin | 72.8% | 64.7% | 70.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £546k | £723k | £588k |
| Profit per employee | −£53.2k | £14k | £9.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲42.6% | ▼24.5% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼34.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲7.7% | ▼7.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 70.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £588k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £9.8k
- 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
- ▼7%
- Now 13
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Elisa Oyj (Elisa Corporation) (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Elisa Polystar UK Ltdthis 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 accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £128k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 12 Oct 2026
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