Playfords Limited
Registered name: PLAYFORDS LIMITED
Part of Jaanda Holdings Limited groupPlayfords Limited made £13.7m revenue and £260k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Playfords Limited’s revenue fell 5% to £13.7m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £260k profit and 62 employees. The company is classified under “electrical installation” and is based in Huntingdon; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Huntingdon, East of England
- Age
- 101 yrs · since 1925
- 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 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.5m | £14.4m | £13.7m |
| Cost of sales | £12.2m | £11.5m | £10.9m |
| Gross profit | £2.3m | £2.9m | £2.8m |
| Operating profit | £313k | £329k | £306k |
| Profit before tax | £287k | £322k | £355k |
| Profit after tax | £218k | £240k | £260k |
| Profit (best available) | £218k | £240k | £260k |
| Staff costs | £2.9m | £3m | £3.2m |
| Employees (average) | 60 | 58 | 62 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.5% | 1.7% | 1.9% |
| Gross margin | 15.8% | 20.2% | 20.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £241k | £249k | £221k |
| Profit per employee | £3.6k | £4.1k | £4.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼0.3% | ▼5.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲10.3% | ▲8.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼3.3% | ▲6.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £368k | £299k | £906k |
| Net assets | £818k | £1.1m | £1.3m |
| Fixed assets | £68.5k | £78.2k | £88.6k |
| Current assets | £3.7m | £3m | £5.7m |
| Debtors | £1.5m | £1.1m | £1.9m |
| Deferred income | £221k | £372k | £361k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £221k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14%
- 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
- ▲25%
- Now £1.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲203%
- Now £906k
- Headcount
- ▲7%
- Now 62
- Deferred income
- ▼3%
- Now £361k
- Fixed assets
- ▲13%
- Now £88.6k
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
- Jaanda Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Playfords Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £260k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 11 Oct 2026
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