Greens Limited
Registered name: GREENS LIMITED
Part of Greens (Lincoln Road) Limited groupGreens Limited made £17.9m revenue and £1.8m profit in the year to 31 Aug 2025. read from filing text
Greens Limited’s revenue grew 16% to £17.9m in the year to 31 Aug 2025, with £1.8m profit and 87 employees. The company is classified under “printing” and is based in High Wycombe; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- High Wycombe, South East
- Age
- 106 yrs · since 1920
- 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 immediate parent company is Greens (Lincoln Road) Limited.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13m | £15.5m | £17.9m |
| Cost of sales | £8.7m | £10.4m | £12.3m |
| Gross profit | £4.3m | £5.1m | £5.6m |
| Operating profit | £1.5m | £2m | £1.9m |
| Profit before tax | £1.8m | £2.3m | £2.3m |
| Profit after tax | £1.4m | £1.8m | £1.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.4m | £1.8m | £1.8m |
| Staff costs | £3.3m | £3.6m | £4.2m |
| Employees (average) | 73 | 79 | 87 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 10.9% | 11.4% | 10% |
| Gross margin | 32.8% | 32.6% | 31.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £178k | £196k | £206k |
| Profit per employee | £19.4k | £22.3k | £20.5k |
| Cash conversion | −117.1% | −102% | −103.7% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲19.1% | ▲15.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲24.5% | ▲1.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8.2% | ▲10.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2.5m | £3.2m | £2.9m |
| Net assets | £3.8m | £4.6m | £4.9m |
| Fixed assets | £1.1m | £1.1m | £1.4m |
| Current assets | £5.6m | £6.5m | £7m |
| Debtors | £2.2m | £2.3m | £2.9m |
| Deferred income | £1m | £957k | £1.1m |
| Cash from operations | −£1.8m | −£2m | −£2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 10%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £206k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £20.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −103.7%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 7.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 16.2%
- 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
- ▲6%
- Now £4.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▼9%
- Now £2.9m
- Headcount
- ▲10%
- Now 87
- Deferred income
- ▲13%
- Now £1.1m
- Fixed assets
- ▲32%
- Now £1.4m
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
- Greens (Lincoln Road) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Greens Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (3)
- Doxzoo LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Greens Printing Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Wimpole Printing LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Aug 2025 (profit £1.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 11 Oct 2026
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