Hart & Sons (Dorset) Limited
Registered name: HART & SONS (DORSET) LIMITED
Part of Hartsofstur Holdings Limited groupHart & Sons (Dorset) Limited made £18.5m revenue and a £169k loss in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Hart & Sons (Dorset) Limited’s revenue fell 4% to £18.5m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with a loss of £169k and 74 employees. The company is classified under “other retail sale in non-specialised stores” and is based in Poole; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Poole, South West
- Age
- 52 yrs · since 1974
- 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 ultimate parent Company is Hartsofstur Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom. The parent undertaking of the smallest and largest Group, which includes the Company and for ”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £22.3m | £20.5m | £19.2m | £18.5m |
| Cost of sales | £15.3m | £14.4m | £13.7m | −£13m |
| Gross profit | £7.1m | £6.2m | £5.6m | £5.5m |
| Operating profit | £2m | £729k | £196k | −£211k |
| Profit before tax | £2m | £739k | £212k | −£200k |
| Profit after tax | £1.6m | £590k | £157k | −£169k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.6m | £590k | £157k | −£169k |
| Staff costs | £1.8m | £2m | £2m | — |
| Employees (average) | 70 | 69 | 75 | 74 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 7.3% | 2.9% | 0.8% | −0.9% |
| Gross margin | 31.6% | 30% | 29% | 29.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £319k | £297k | £256k | £250k |
| Profit per employee | £23.3k | £8.6k | £2.1k | −£2.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼8.2% | ▼6.3% | ▼3.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼63.8% | ▼73.4% | ▼207.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼1.4% | ▲8.7% | ▼1.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.2m | £477k | £518k | — |
| Net assets | £4.8m | £4.4m | £3.9m | — |
| Fixed assets | £317k | £405k | £402k | — |
| Current assets | £6.9m | £5.8m | £5.4m | — |
| Debtors | £29.3k | £107k | £190k | — |
| Deferred income | £48.7k | £45.9k | £187k | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 29.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £250k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£2.3k
- 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
- ▼1%
- Now 74
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Hartsofstur Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Hart & Sons (Dorset) Limitedthis 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 accounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit −£169k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 16 Oct 2026
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