Cousins Furniture Stores Limited
Registered name: COUSINS FURNITURE STORES LIMITED
Cousins Furniture Stores Limited made £14m revenue and £61k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025. read from filing text
Cousins Furniture Stores Limited’s revenue fell 3% to £14m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £61k profit and 95 employees. The company is classified under “retail of furniture, lighting, and similar (not musical instruments or scores) in specialised store” and is based in Oldbury; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Oldbury, West Midlands
- Age
- 43 yrs · since 1983
- Type
- Private Limited Company
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) | £17.9m | £16.5m | £14.5m | £14m |
| Cost of sales | £10m | £8.6m | £7.5m | £7.4m |
| Gross profit | £7.8m | £7.9m | £7m | £6.6m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £1.2m | £667k | −£134k |
| Profit before tax | £1.4m | £1.3m | £863k | £27.1k |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £965k | £633k | £61k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £965k | £633k | £61k |
| Staff costs | £3.1m | £3.2m | £2.9m | £2.8m |
| Employees (average) | 116 | 113 | 113 | 95 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5.9% | 5.9% | 4.4% | 0.4% |
| Gross margin | 43.9% | 48.1% | 48.2% | 46.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £154k | £146k | £128k | £147k |
| Profit per employee | £9.1k | £8.5k | £5.6k | £642 |
| Cash conversion | −51.3% | −92.7% | −139.9% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼7.8% | ▼12% | ▼3.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼9% | ▼34.4% | ▼90.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼2.6% | 0% | ▼15.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £4m | £4.4m | £4.6m | £4m |
| Net assets | £13.1m | £14m | £14.6m | £14.7m |
| Fixed assets | £7.8m | £7.6m | £7.7m | £8m |
| Current assets | £9.8m | £10.1m | £10.1m | £9.6m |
| Debtors | £258k | £243k | £263k | £216k |
| Deferred income | £248k | £368k | £267k | £311k |
| Cash from operations | −£691k | −£1.1m | −£934k | −£354k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 46.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £147k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £642
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 57.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.6%
- 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 £14.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼12%
- Now £4m
- Headcount
- ▼16%
- Now 95
- Deferred income
- ▲17%
- Now £311k
- Fixed assets
- ▲5%
- Now £8m
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 £61k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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