B - Sporting Limited
Registered name: B - SPORTING LIMITED
Part of Sportsshoes.com Group Limited groupB - Sporting Limited made £93.6m revenue and £4.1m profit in the year to 28 Feb 2025. read from filing text
B - Sporting Limited’s revenue grew 4% to £93.6m in the year to 28 Feb 2025, with £4.1m profit and 211 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale of footwear in specialised stores” and is based in Shipley; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Shipley, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 44 yrs · since 1982
- 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: “Sportsshoes.com Group Limited is the immediate and ultimate parent company of B-Sporting Limited as at 2”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 28 Feb 2022 | 28 Feb 2023 | 29 Feb 2024 | 28 Feb 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) | £83.8m | £81.2m | £90.2m | £93.6m |
| Cost of sales | £65.8m | £66.8m | £72.6m | £75.6m |
| Gross profit | £18m | £14.4m | £17.7m | £18m |
| Operating profit | £8.9m | £3.4m | £4.8m | £5.3m |
| Profit before tax | £8.9m | £3.4m | £4.8m | £5.3m |
| Profit after tax | £7.2m | £2.8m | £3.7m | £4.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £7.2m | £2.8m | £3.7m | £4.1m |
| Staff costs | £5.8m | £7.4m | £8.3m | £8.6m |
| Employees (average) | 220 | 220 | 215 | 211 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 8.6% | 3.5% | 4.1% | 4.3% |
| Gross margin | 21.5% | 17.7% | 19.6% | 19.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £381k | £369k | £420k | £444k |
| Profit per employee | £32.8k | £12.9k | £17.2k | £19.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼3.1% | ▲11.1% | ▲3.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼60.6% | ▲30.4% | ▲10% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▼2.3% | ▼1.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £803k | £48.7k | £2.3m | £4m |
| Net assets | £26.3m | £27.1m | £30.8m | £34.6m |
| Fixed assets | £625k | £1.5m | £1.8m | £1.5m |
| Current assets | £38.6m | £42.7m | £49.2m | £52.6m |
| Debtors | £1.5m | £1.7m | £1.4m | £1.7m |
| Deferred income | £3.9m | £4.7m | £5.7m | £3.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 19.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £444k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £19.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.8%
- 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
- ▲12%
- Now £34.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲79%
- Now £4m
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 211
- Deferred income
- ▼38%
- Now £3.5m
- Fixed assets
- ▼16%
- Now £1.5m
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
- Sportsshoes.com Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- B - Sporting 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 FullAccounts for the year to 28 Feb 2025 (profit £4.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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