Home Hardware Southwest Limited
Registered name: HOME HARDWARE SOUTHWEST LIMITED
Home Hardware Southwest Limited made £28.5m revenue and a £366k loss in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Home Hardware Southwest Limited’s revenue fell 5% to £28.5m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with a loss of £366k and 132 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of china and glassware and cleaning materials” and is based in Barnstaple; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Barnstaple, South West
- Age
- 64 yrs · since 1962
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £31.8m | £30m | £28.5m |
| Cost of sales | −£25.1m | −£23.6m | −£22.2m |
| Gross profit | £6.7m | £6.4m | £6.3m |
| Operating profit | £179k | £98.6k | −£316k |
| Profit before tax | £45k | −£1.3k | −£386k |
| Profit after tax | £25.6k | −£10.6k | −£366k |
| Profit (best available) | £25.6k | −£10.6k | −£366k |
| Employees (average) | — | 142 | 132 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.1% | 0% | −1.3% |
| Gross margin | 21.2% | 21.2% | 22% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £211k | £216k |
| Profit per employee | — | −£75 | −£2.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼5.7% | ▼5.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼141.3% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | — | ▼7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −1.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £216k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£2.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼7%
- Now 132
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Subsidiaries (3)
- Home Hardware LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Mallett & Son, LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Speed 6568 LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit −£366k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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