Paramount 21 Limited
Registered name: PARAMOUNT 21 LIMITED
Paramount 21 Limited made £17.1m revenue and a £337k loss in the year to 31 Oct 2025. read from filing text
Paramount 21 Limited’s revenue grew 3% to £17.1m in the year to 31 Oct 2025, with a loss of £337k and 91 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other food products” and is based in Newton Abbot; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Newton Abbot, South West
- Age
- 38 yrs · since 1988
- 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: “The controlling parties are Mr P and Mrs A Hannaford.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Oct 2023 | 31 Oct 2024 | 31 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.2m | £16.6m | £17.1m |
| Cost of sales | £10.8m | £13.3m | £14.1m |
| Gross profit | £2.4m | £3.4m | £3m |
| Operating profit | £71.9k | £584k | −£126k |
| Profit before tax | −£137k | £359k | −£392k |
| Profit after tax | −£114k | £277k | −£337k |
| Profit (best available) | −£114k | £277k | −£337k |
| Staff costs | £3.2m | £4.1m | £4.5m |
| Employees (average) | 82 | 88 | 91 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −0.9% | 1.7% | −2% |
| Gross margin | 18.1% | 20.2% | 17.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £161k | £189k | £188k |
| Profit per employee | −£1.4k | £3.1k | −£3.7k |
| Cash conversion | −627.8% | −148.4% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲26.1% | ▲2.7% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼221.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲7.3% | ▲3.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2.7k | £22.5k | £7.6k |
| Net assets | £2.3m | £2.5m | £2.1m |
| Fixed assets | £3.2m | £3.6m | £3.4m |
| Current assets | £3.9m | £3.9m | £4.3m |
| Debtors | £1.8m | £1.9m | £2.3m |
| Deferred income | £266k | £371k | £286k |
| Cash from operations | −£451k | −£867k | −£649k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 17.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £188k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£3.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 19.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.6%
- 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
- ▼14%
- Now £2.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼66%
- Now £7.6k
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 91
- Deferred income
- ▼23%
- Now £286k
- Fixed assets
- ▼7%
- Now £3.4m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Subsidiaries (2)
- Choose Plants LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Cornish Seafood Company 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 Oct 2025 (profit −£337k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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