Argrain Limited
Registered name: ARGRAIN LIMITED
Argrain Limited made £55.3m revenue and £564k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025. read from filing text
Argrain Limited’s revenue fell 21% to £55.3m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £564k profit and 35 employees. The company is classified under “post-harvest crop activities” and is based in York; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- York, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 51 yrs · since 1975
- 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 parent company of Argrain Ltd is Argrain Holdings Ltd and its registered office is Mill Farm, Raskelf, Easingwold, York YO61 3LB.”
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&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £81.7m | £96.3m | £69.7m | £55.3m |
| Cost of sales | £76.5m | £89.8m | £65m | £51m |
| Gross profit | £5.2m | £6.5m | £4.7m | £4.3m |
| Operating profit | £2.3m | £2.9m | £1.1m | £691k |
| Profit before tax | £2.2m | £2.9m | £1.3m | £769k |
| Profit after tax | £1.8m | £2.3m | £961k | £564k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.8m | £2.3m | £961k | £564k |
| Staff costs | £1m | £1.5m | £1.2m | £1.3m |
| Employees (average) | 29 | 31 | 34 | 35 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2.2% | 2.4% | 1.4% | 1% |
| Gross margin | 6.4% | 6.8% | 6.8% | 7.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £2.8m | £3.1m | £2.1m | £1.6m |
| Profit per employee | £62.6k | £73.6k | £28.3k | £16.1k |
| Cash conversion | −6.2% | −123.9% | −229% | −100.2% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲17.9% | ▼27.6% | ▼20.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲25.8% | ▼57.9% | ▼41.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲6.9% | ▲9.7% | ▲2.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £7.3k | £10.5k | £1m | £624k |
| Net assets | £4.2m | £5.1m | £5.6m | £5.6m |
| Fixed assets | £1.1m | £1.2m | £1.3m | £1.2m |
| Current assets | £15.7m | £14.7m | £11.2m | £10.3m |
| Debtors | £11.6m | £9.7m | £6.9m | £6.5m |
| Deferred income | £477k | £348k | £300k | £332k |
| Cash from operations | −£141k | −£3.6m | −£2.6m | −£692k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 7.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.6m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £16.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −100.2%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11.7%
- 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
- ▲0%
- Now £5.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▼39%
- Now £624k
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 35
- Deferred income
- ▲11%
- Now £332k
- Fixed assets
- ▼3%
- Now £1.2m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £564k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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