Glendale Plastics Limited
Registered name: GLENDALE PLASTICS LIMITED
Glendale Plastics Limited made £8.4m revenue and £851k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Glendale Plastics Limited’s revenue fell 6% to £8.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £851k profit and 71 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of plastic packing goods” and is based in Glenrothes; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Glenrothes, Scotland
- Age
- 46 yrs · since 1979
- Type
- Private Limited Company
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) | £8.5m | £9m | £8.4m |
| Cost of sales | £5.6m | £6m | £5.4m |
| Gross profit | £2.9m | £3m | £3m |
| Operating profit | £928k | £950k | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | £996k | £1.1m | £1.1m |
| Profit after tax | £683k | £786k | £851k |
| Profit (best available) | £683k | £786k | £851k |
| Employees (average) | 72 | 72 | 71 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 8% | 8.8% | 10.1% |
| Gross margin | 34% | 33.3% | 35.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £118k | £125k | £119k |
| Profit per employee | £9.5k | £10.9k | £12k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲5.6% | ▼6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲15.1% | ▲8.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▼1.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 10.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 35.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £119k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £12k
- 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
- ▼1%
- Now 71
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £851k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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