Cpi Books Ltd
Registered name: CPI BOOKS LTD
Part of Cpi UK Management Company Ltd groupCpi Books Ltd made £81.3m revenue and a £564k loss in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Cpi Books Ltd’s revenue fell 5% to £81.3m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with a loss of £564k and 493 employees. The company is classified under “printing” and is based in Croydon; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Croydon, London
- Age
- 38 yrs · since 1987
- 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 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £78.8m | £91.3m | £85.8m | £81.3m |
| Cost of sales | £52.2m | £62.1m | £61.5m | £57.3m |
| Gross profit | £26.6m | £29.2m | £24.3m | £24m |
| Operating profit | £9m | £9.8m | £1.7m | £2.1m |
| Profit before tax | £8.4m | £8.7m | £395k | £618k |
| Profit after tax | — | £5.7m | £1.1m | −£564k |
| Profit (best available) | £8.4m | £5.7m | £1.1m | −£564k |
| Staff costs | £18.8m | £19.9m | £21.9m | £21.9m |
| Employees (average) | 490 | 509 | 541 | 493 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 10.7% | 6.2% | 1.3% | −0.7% |
| Gross margin | 33.8% | 32% | 28.3% | 29.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £161k | £179k | £159k | £165k |
| Profit per employee | £17.2k | £11.2k | £2.1k | −£1.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲15.9% | ▼6% | ▼5.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼32.6% | ▼80.1% | ▼149.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.9% | ▲6.3% | ▼8.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £17.2m | £9.2m | £3.4m | £6.6m |
| Net assets | £52.9m | £59.5m | £59.3m | — |
| Fixed assets | £21m | £31.9m | £41.8m | — |
| Debtors | £16.7m | £12.9m | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 29.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £165k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£1.1k
- 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
- ▲94%
- Now £6.6m
- Headcount
- ▼9%
- Now 493
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Cpi UK Management Company Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Cpi Books Ltdthis 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 31 Mar 2025 (profit −£564k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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