Avenue Recycling Limited
Registered name: AVENUE RECYCLING LIMITED
Avenue Recycling Limited made £6.7m revenue and £152k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Avenue Recycling Limited’s revenue fell 2% to £6.7m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £152k profit and 66 employees. The company is classified under “recovery of sorted materials”; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Northern Ireland
- Age
- 22 yrs · since 2004
- 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: “The company's ultimate controlling party is Mr M Lavery director and 100% shareholder.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | £6.8m | £6.7m |
| Cost of sales | — | — | £4.4m | £4.3m |
| Gross profit | — | — | £2.4m | £2.4m |
| Operating profit | — | — | £815k | £586k |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £755k | £437k |
| Profit after tax | — | — | £537k | £152k |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | £537k | £152k |
| Staff costs | — | — | £2m | £2.1m |
| Employees (average) | 78 | 80 | 66 | 66 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | 7.9% | 2.3% |
| Gross margin | — | — | 34.8% | 36.2% |
| Revenue per employee | — | — | £103k | £101k |
| Profit per employee | — | — | £8.1k | £2.3k |
| Cash conversion | — | — | −109.8% | −330.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | — | ▼1.8% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▼71.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2.6% | ▼17.5% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £350k | £197k | £283k | £158k |
| Net assets | £2.3m | £2.5m | £2.9m | £3m |
| Fixed assets | £3.3m | £3.3m | £3.7m | £5.5m |
| Current assets | £1.6m | £1.7m | £2m | £1.3m |
| Debtors | £760k | £1m | £908k | £949k |
| Deferred income | £90.7k | £49.9k | £73.9k | £104k |
| Cash from operations | — | — | −£895k | −£1.9m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 36.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £101k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −330.3%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 83.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.2%
- 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
- ▲5%
- Now £3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼44%
- Now £158k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 66
- Deferred income
- ▲41%
- Now £104k
- Fixed assets
- ▲48%
- Now £5.5m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £152k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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