Colorite Europe Limited
Registered name: COLORITE EUROPE LIMITED
Colorite Europe Limited made £21.6m revenue and £6m profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Colorite Europe Limited’s revenue grew 12% to £21.6m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £6m profit and 38 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other plastic products” and is based in Belfast; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Age
- 30 yrs · since 1996
- 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. From the filing: “Tekni-Plex Europe N.V”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £22.9m | £19.2m | £21.6m |
| Cost of sales | £16.7m | £12.1m | −£13.6m |
| Gross profit | £6.3m | £7.1m | £8m |
| Operating profit | £2.4m | £3.9m | £4.3m |
| Profit before tax | £2.2m | £3.9m | £7.1m |
| Profit after tax | £1.8m | £3m | £6m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.8m | £3m | £6m |
| Staff costs | £3.1m | £2.9m | — |
| Employees (average) | 37 | 40 | 38 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 7.8% | 15.4% | 27.7% |
| Gross margin | 27.4% | 37.1% | 37% |
| Revenue per employee | £620k | £481k | £569k |
| Profit per employee | £48.6k | £73.8k | £158k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼16.2% | ▲12.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲64.2% | ▲103.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8.1% | ▼5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £43.5k | £43.7k | — |
| Net assets | £18.7m | £15.7m | — |
| Fixed assets | £12.5m | £12.9m | — |
| Current assets | £13.4m | £13.8m | — |
| Debtors | £3.6m | £2.5m | — |
| Deferred income | £612k | £660k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 27.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 37%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £569k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £158k
- 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
- ▼5%
- Now 38
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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