Tanners Wines Limited
Registered name: TANNERS WINES LIMITED
Part of Tanners Wines (Holdings) Limited groupTanners Wines Limited made £23.7m revenue and £347k profit in the year to 31 May 2025.
Tanners Wines Limited’s revenue fell 5% to £23.7m in the year to 31 May 2025, with £347k profit and 113 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of wine, beer, spirits and other alcoholic beverages”; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- West Midlands
- Age
- 54 yrs · since 1972
- 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 May 2022 | 31 May 2023 | 31 May 2024 | 31 May 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £25.7m | £24.1m | £24.9m | £23.7m |
| Cost of sales | £18.2m | £17m | £17.4m | £16.4m |
| Gross profit | £7.5m | £7.1m | £7.5m | £7.3m |
| Operating profit | £1.4m | £465k | £832k | £494k |
| Profit before tax | £1.4m | £427k | £807k | £466k |
| Profit after tax | £1.2m | £351k | £573k | £347k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.2m | £351k | £573k | £347k |
| Staff costs | £2.8m | £3m | £3.3m | £3.4m |
| Employees (average) | 106 | 110 | 113 | 113 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 4.5% | 1.5% | 2.3% | 1.5% |
| Gross margin | 29% | 29.6% | 30.2% | 30.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £242k | £219k | £221k | £210k |
| Profit per employee | £10.9k | £3.2k | £5.1k | £3.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼6.1% | ▲3.4% | ▼4.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼69.7% | ▲63.3% | ▼39.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.8% | ▲2.7% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.2m | £318k | £159k | £88.4k |
| Net assets | £4.5m | £4.8m | £5.3m | £5.7m |
| Fixed assets | £343k | £453k | £678k | £791k |
| Current assets | £10.6m | £9.3m | £10.1m | £10.2m |
| Debtors | £2.1m | £2m | £2.3m | £2.2m |
| Deferred income | £649k | £611k | £692k | £651k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 30.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £210k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.2%
- 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
- ▲7%
- Now £5.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼44%
- Now £88.4k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 113
- Deferred income
- ▼6%
- Now £651k
- Fixed assets
- ▲17%
- Now £791k
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
- Tanners Wines (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Tanners (Shrewsbury) Limited75–100%
- Tanners Wines Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (4)
- Mardol Wines LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pulling & Co.limitedFigures not disclosed
- Tanners Cymru LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Terry Platt Wine Merchants 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 May 2025 (profit £347k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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