Yb Fixings Ltd
Registered name: YB FIXINGS LTD
Part of Esi Technologies Limited groupYb Fixings Ltd made £16.7m revenue and £1.6m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Yb Fixings Ltd’s revenue grew 6% to £16.7m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.6m profit and 33 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of other machinery and equipment” and is based in Glasgow; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Glasgow, Scotland
- Age
- 45 yrs · since 1981
- 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: “ESI Process UK Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £17m | £16.5m | £15.7m | £16.7m |
| Cost of sales | £11.7m | £11.4m | £10.1m | −£11.1m |
| Gross profit | £5.4m | £5.1m | £5.6m | £5.6m |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | £2.3m |
| Profit before tax | £2.9m | £2.3m | £1.9m | £2.1m |
| Profit after tax | £2.3m | £1.8m | £1.4m | £1.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.3m | £1.8m | £1.4m | £1.6m |
| Staff costs | £1.5m | £1.7m | £1.8m | — |
| Employees (average) | 33 | 36 | 36 | 33 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 13.7% | 11.2% | 8.9% | 9.5% |
| Gross margin | 31.5% | 31.1% | 35.7% | 33.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £516k | £459k | £437k | £505k |
| Profit per employee | £70.7k | £51.3k | £39k | £48.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼3% | ▼4.7% | ▲6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼20.8% | ▼24% | ▲13.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲9.1% | 0% | ▼8.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.1m | £186k | £198k | — |
| Net assets | £8.3m | £6.5m | £4m | — |
| Fixed assets | £154k | £414k | £245k | — |
| Current assets | £10.2m | £8.4m | £8.3m | — |
| Debtors | £2.3m | £2.3m | £2.2m | — |
| Cash from operations | £1.4m | £3.3m | £2.2m | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data May 2024 | Accounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 33.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £505k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £48.2k
- 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
- ▼8%
- Now 33
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Esi Technologies Limited (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Esi Process U.K. Limited75–100%
- Yb Fixings Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Young Black LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (7)
- U.K. Gas Technologies LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offRev. £11.3m · Profit £103k
- Trelawny SPT LimitedRev. £5.7m · Profit £329k
- Alphr Technology LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Filtration LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Fluid Controls LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Precision Parts UK LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Sunflower Medical 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit £1.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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