D&M Audiovisual Ltd
Registered name: D&M AUDIOVISUAL LTD
Part of D & M Europe B.V. groupD&M Audiovisual Ltd made £19m revenue and £203k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2023.
D&M Audiovisual Ltd’s revenue was £19m in the year to 31 Dec 2023, with £203k profit and 12 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of radio, television goods & electrical household appliances (other than records, tapes, cd's & video tapes and the equipment used for playing them)” and is based in Worthing; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Worthing, South East
- Age
- 62 yrs · since 1964
- 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 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £30.5m | £31.5m | £19m |
| Cost of sales | £27.1m | £27.9m | £16.9m |
| Gross profit | £3.4m | £3.6m | £2m |
| Operating profit | £807k | £830k | £160k |
| Profit before tax | £810k | £846k | £158k |
| Profit after tax | £689k | £564k | £203k |
| Profit (best available) | £689k | £564k | £203k |
| Staff costs | £1.8m | £1.5m | £1m |
| Employees (average) | 15 | 12 | 12 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 2.3% | 1.8% | 1.1% |
| Gross margin | 11.2% | 11.4% | 10.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £2m | £2.6m | £1.6m |
| Profit per employee | £45.9k | £47k | £16.9k |
| Cash conversion | −669.7% | 173.2% | 1636% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3.1% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▼18% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼20% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.1m | £1.4m | £2.4m |
| Net assets | £2m | £2.6m | £2.8m |
| Current assets | £10.6m | £10m | £8.8m |
| Debtors | £3.6m | £4.8m | £5.1m |
| Deferred income | £264k | £205k | £291k |
| Cash from operations | −£5.4m | £1.4m | £2.6m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 10.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.6m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £16.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 1636%
- 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
- 1.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 27.1%
- 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 £2.8m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £2.4m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 12
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £291k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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
- D & M Europe B.V. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- D&M Audiovisual Ltdthis 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 2023 (profit £203k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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