Charles F.stead & Company,limited
Registered name: CHARLES F.STEAD & COMPANY,LIMITED
Part of Charles F Stead (Holdings) Limited groupCharles F.stead & Company,limited made £9.9m revenue and £327k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Charles F.stead & Company,limited’s revenue grew 15% to £9.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £327k profit and 66 employees. The company is classified under “tanning and dressing of leather; dressing and dyeing of fur” and is based in Leeds; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 122 yrs · since 1904
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £8.6m | £9.9m |
| Cost of sales | −£184k | £257k |
| Operating profit | −£293k | £210k |
| Profit before tax | −£152k | £297k |
| Profit after tax | −£370k | £327k |
| Profit (best available) | −£370k | £327k |
| Staff costs | £2.5m | £2.7m |
| Employees (average) | 66 | 66 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −4.3% | 3.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £130k | £149k |
| Profit per employee | −£5.6k | £5k |
| Cash conversion | — | −15.4% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲14.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £3.5m | £3.2m |
| Net assets | £9.9m | £10.2m |
| Fixed assets | £2.8m | £2.8m |
| Current assets | £9.1m | £8.9m |
| Debtors | £638k | £952k |
| Deferred income | £717k | £635k |
| Cash from operations | −£341k | −£32.4k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £149k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −15.4%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 28.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 6.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.7%
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now £10.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼9%
- Now £3.2m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 66
- Deferred income
- ▼11%
- Now £635k
- Fixed assets
- ▲2%
- Now £2.8m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Charles F Stead (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Charles F.stead & Company,limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Charles F Stead (Properties) LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £327k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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