MARCO LIMITED
Company number 03495807 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
MARCO LIMITED occupies a defensible niche position within the UK specialist weighing and automation machinery sector, with strong gross margins (54.4%) reflecting genuine product differentiation through proprietary integrated hardware and software solutions. However, the company faces significant headwinds: revenue has declined 32% over four years to £9.0M, operating losses have deepened to -7% EBIT margin due to negative operating leverage on a fixed cost base, and rising inventory levels suggest potential contract slippage. While the macro tailwind of labour cost inflation should structurally support demand for automation, near-term customer capital expenditure deferrals and export market uncertainties are constraining growth. The backing of ATS Group provides financial resilience and strategic support, but MARCO must arrest the revenue decline and realign its cost structure to restore profitability.
Shareholders' funds
£3,851,926
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of the manufacture of innovative factory productivity systems.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1998-01-20
- Employees
- 64 (2025 accounts · was 63 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Block 3 The Industrial Estate, Enterprise Way, Edenbridge, Kent, TN8 6HF
- Postcode
- TN8 6HF
- Capital
- 22,636 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-01-20
- Next due by
- 2027-02-03
Nature of business (SIC)
- 28990 Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery not elsewhere classified
Officers 3 current · 23 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by AUTOMATION TOOLING SYSTEMS ENTERPRISES ENGLAND LIMITED — since 2019-12-16
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AJA LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA664606 (Tier 2), registered since 2020.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- marco.co.uk
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Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| MARCO WEIGHING SYSTEMS LIMITED | 2007-08-02 |
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 7A ENTERPRISE WAY, EDENBRIDGE, KENT, TN8 6HF | 2014-11-10 |
| WILDERWICK ROAD, EAST GRINSTEAD, WEST SUSSEX, RH19 3NT | 2012-12-19 |
| CROWN HOUSE, 37 HIGH STREET, EAST GRINSTEAD, WEST SUSSEX RH19 3AF | 1999-02-19 |
| THE OLD BARN, WILDERWICK ROAD, EAST GRINSTEAD, WEST SUSSEX RH19 3NT | 1998-02-23 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 21 similar companies in TN
2nd largest employer among its local peers (64 staff).
Trading since 1998.
Competitors Ashford
This company ranks 4 among manufacture of other special-purpose machinery not elsewhere classified in Ashford.
The class of 1998
43%
of the 55,901 companies incorporated in 1998 are still active today; 54% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.