Winter & Co. UK Limited
Registered name: WINTER & CO. UK LIMITED
Winter & Co. UK Limited made £14m revenue and £375k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Winter & Co. UK Limited’s revenue fell 3% to £14m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £375k profit and 36 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of textiles” and is based in Cambridgeshire; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, East of England
- Age
- 55 yrs · since 1971
- 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 is a wholly owned subsidiary of Winter Holdings AG, a company which is incorporated in Switzerland. In the opinion of the Directors there is no one overall controlling party.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.3m | £14m |
| Cost of sales | £10.6m | £10.5m |
| Gross profit | £3.7m | £3.4m |
| Operating profit | £680k | £495k |
| Profit before tax | £709k | £519k |
| Profit after tax | £524k | £375k |
| Profit (best available) | £524k | £375k |
| Staff costs | £1.7m | £1.7m |
| Employees (average) | 37 | 36 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 3.6% | 2.7% |
| Gross margin | 25.9% | 24.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £387k | £388k |
| Profit per employee | £14.2k | £10.4k |
| Cash conversion | −222.2% | 31.7% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼2.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼28.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼2.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £2m | £1.1m |
| Net assets | £9.1m | £9.2m |
| Fixed assets | £1.6m | £1.8m |
| Current assets | £8.9m | £8.9m |
| Debtors | £2.1m | £2.2m |
| Deferred income | £198k | £126k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.5m | £157k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 24.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £388k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 31.7%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 12.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 15.6%
- 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
- ▲1%
- Now £9.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼42%
- Now £1.1m
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 36
- Deferred income
- ▼36%
- Now £126k
- Fixed assets
- ▲12%
- Now £1.8m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Subsidiaries (2)
- Watson Grange LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Winter & Co. (Scotland) 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 Dec 2025 (profit £375k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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