Arville Textiles Limited
Registered name: ARVILLE TEXTILES LIMITED
Part of Arville Holdings Limited groupArville Textiles Limited made £10.3m revenue and a £1m loss in the year to 30 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Arville Textiles Limited’s revenue fell 6% to £10.3m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with a loss of £1m and 60 employees. The company is classified under “weaving of textiles” and is based in Wetherby; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wetherby, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 75 yrs · since 1951
- 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 immediate and ultimate parent company is Arville Holdings Limited. Arville Holdings Limited is the smallest and largest group into which these financial statements are consolidated, and these grou”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £10.8m | £11m | £10.3m |
| Cost of sales | £7.4m | £8.1m | £7.8m |
| Gross profit | £3.4m | £2.9m | £2.4m |
| Operating profit | £924k | £198k | −£1.1m |
| Profit before tax | £905k | £160k | −£1.1m |
| Profit after tax | £818k | £176k | −£1m |
| Profit (best available) | £818k | £176k | −£1m |
| Staff costs | — | — | £3.2m |
| Employees (average) | 56 | 58 | 60 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 7.6% | 1.6% | −10.1% |
| Gross margin | 31.2% | 26% | 23.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £192k | £189k | £171k |
| Profit per employee | £14.6k | £3k | −£17.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲1.8% | ▼6.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼78.5% | ▼691.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.6% | ▲3.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £262k | £478k | £375k |
| Net assets | £5.6m | £6.1m | £5.1m |
| Fixed assets | £1.9m | £1.9m | £1.7m |
| Current assets | £7.2m | £5.9m | £5.4m |
| Debtors | £2.2m | £2.1m | £1.7m |
| Deferred income | £471k | £403k | £516k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −10.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 23.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £171k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£17.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 17%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17%
- 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
- ▼16%
- Now £5.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼21%
- Now £375k
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 60
- Deferred income
- ▲28%
- Now £516k
- Fixed assets
- ▼6%
- Now £1.7m
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
- Arville Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Arville Textiles Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (4)
- Arville Belting LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Arville Coating LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Arville Fabrication LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Heathermist LtdFigures 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 30 Apr 2025 (profit −£1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 17 Oct 2026
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