Badgequo Limited
Registered name: BADGEQUO LIMITED
Part of Warpaint London PLC groupBadgequo Limited made £27m revenue and £1.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Badgequo Limited’s revenue fell 18% to £27m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.1m profit and 67 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of perfume and cosmetics” and is based in Iver; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Iver, South East
- Age
- 41 yrs · since 1984
- 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 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £25m | £29.3m | £33m | £27m |
| Cost of sales | £16.2m | £17.9m | −£19.7m | −£15.9m |
| Gross profit | £8.9m | £11.4m | £13.3m | £11m |
| Operating profit | £3.7m | £4.8m | £7.2m | £1.5m |
| Profit before tax | £3.6m | £4.7m | £7.2m | £1.5m |
| Profit after tax | £2.9m | £3.6m | £5.5m | £1.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.9m | £3.6m | £5.5m | £1.1m |
| Staff costs | £2.6m | £3.2m | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 53 | 57 | 62 | 67 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 11.6% | 12.4% | 16.5% | 4% |
| Gross margin | 35.4% | 39% | 40.2% | 40.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £472k | £515k | £532k | £402k |
| Profit per employee | £54.7k | £63.9k | £88k | £16.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲17.2% | ▲12.5% | ▼18.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲25.6% | ▲49.9% | ▼80.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲7.5% | ▲8.8% | ▲8.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.5m | £2.5m | — | — |
| Net assets | £10m | £11.7m | — | — |
| Fixed assets | £370k | £292k | — | — |
| Current assets | £16.5m | £19.5m | — | — |
| Debtors | £3.6m | £3.1m | — | — |
| Deferred income | £313k | £113k | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 40.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £402k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £16.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲8%
- Now 67
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Warpaint London PLCultimate parent75–100%
- Retra Holdings Limited75–100%
- Badgequo 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 accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £1.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 14 Oct 2026
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