Pearman Briggs Leisure Limited
Registered name: PEARMAN BRIGGS LEISURE LIMITED
Part of Martyn Homer Leisure Limited groupPearman Briggs Leisure Limited made £16.1m revenue and £160k profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025. read from filing text
Pearman Briggs Leisure Limited’s revenue fell 24% to £16.1m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £160k profit and 28 employees. The company is classified under “other retail sale of new goods in specialised stores (not commercial art galleries and opticians)” and is based in Gloucester; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Gloucester, South West
- Age
- 43 yrs · since 1983
- 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 Jul 2022 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 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) | £18m | £18.7m | £21.1m | £16.1m |
| Cost of sales | £15.3m | £16.5m | £19m | £14.6m |
| Gross profit | £2.6m | £2.2m | £2.1m | £1.5m |
| Operating profit | £1.4m | £880k | £656k | £183k |
| Profit before tax | £1.4m | £1m | £713k | £214k |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £789k | £581k | £160k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £789k | £581k | £160k |
| Staff costs | £764k | £801k | £884k | £803k |
| Employees (average) | 26 | 25 | 26 | 28 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 6.4% | 4.2% | 2.8% | 1% |
| Gross margin | 14.6% | 11.8% | 10.1% | 9.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £690k | £750k | £812k | £577k |
| Profit per employee | £44.2k | £31.5k | £22.4k | £5.7k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲4.4% | ▲12.6% | ▼23.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼31.4% | ▼26.3% | ▼72.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼3.9% | ▲4% | ▲7.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.4m | £1.5m | £1.9m | £1.9m |
| Net assets | £2.6m | £3.2m | £3.5m | £3.5m |
| Fixed assets | £380k | £403k | £373k | £325k |
| Current assets | £3.9m | £5.6m | £6.9m | £7.1m |
| Debtors | £31k | £35.1k | £244k | £10.8k |
| Deferred income | £8.6k | £12.9k | £12.9k | £22.5k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 9.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £577k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.7k
- 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
- 0.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- 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 £3.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲4%
- Now £1.9m
- Headcount
- ▲8%
- Now 28
- Deferred income
- ▲75%
- Now £22.5k
- Fixed assets
- ▼13%
- Now £325k
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
- Martyn Homer Leisure Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Pearman Briggs Leisure Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Cotswold Edge Leisure Vehicles 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 Jul 2025 (profit £160k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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