D R Kitchen Appliances Limited
Registered name: D R KITCHEN APPLIANCES LIMITED
D R Kitchen Appliances Limited made £8.3m revenue and £388k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
D R Kitchen Appliances Limited’s revenue fell 22% to £8.3m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £388k profit and 16 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of household goods (other than musical instruments)” and is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 47 yrs · since 1979
- 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's immediate and ultimate parent company is Bogod Group Limited, a company incorporated in”
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 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 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) | £12.5m | £14.5m | £10.6m | £8.3m |
| Cost of sales | £7.3m | £8.4m | £6.4m | £5m |
| Gross profit | £5.2m | £6.1m | £4.2m | £3.3m |
| Operating profit | £2.1m | £2.2m | £1m | £517k |
| Profit before tax | £2.1m | £2.2m | £998k | £517k |
| Profit after tax | £1.7m | £1.8m | £748k | £388k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.7m | £1.8m | £748k | £388k |
| Staff costs | £1m | £1.2m | £1.1m | £958k |
| Employees (average) | 18 | 19 | 18 | 16 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 13.5% | 12.2% | 7% | 4.7% |
| Gross margin | 41.8% | 42% | 39.8% | 40.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £693k | £765k | £591k | £521k |
| Profit per employee | £93.7k | £93.1k | £41.6k | £24.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲16.6% | ▼26.8% | ▼21.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲4.9% | ▼57.7% | ▼48.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5.6% | ▼5.3% | ▼11.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3.4k | £3.7k | £2.9k | £4.4k |
| Net assets | £2.9m | £3.6m | £4.4m | £4.1m |
| Fixed assets | £141k | £243k | £199k | £167k |
| Current assets | £4.9m | £5.2m | £5.6m | £4.9m |
| Debtors | £2.4m | £1.8m | £1.7m | £1.2m |
| Deferred income | £354k | £418k | £276k | £223k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 40.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £521k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £24.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2%
- 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
- 13.8%
- 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 £4.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲54%
- Now £4.4k
- Headcount
- ▼11%
- Now 16
- Deferred income
- ▼19%
- Now £223k
- Fixed assets
- ▼16%
- Now £167k
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 31 Mar 2025 (profit £388k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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