Kettles Limited
Registered name: KETTLES LIMITED
Part of Kettles Holdings Limited groupKettles Limited made £3.8m revenue and £809k profit in the year to 31 Jan 2025.
Kettles Limited’s revenue grew 10% to £3.8m in the year to 31 Jan 2025, with £809k profit and 15 employees. The company is classified under “floor and wall covering” and is based in Watford; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Watford, East of England
- Age
- 37 yrs · since 1989
- 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 Jan 2023 | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £3.4m | £3.8m |
| Cost of sales | — | £2m | £2.1m |
| Gross profit | — | £1.4m | £1.6m |
| Operating profit | — | £995k | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | — | £1m | £1.1m |
| Profit after tax | — | £751k | £809k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £751k | £809k |
| Employees (average) | 17 | 17 | 15 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | 22% | 21.5% |
| Gross margin | — | 40.9% | 43.8% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £201k | £250k |
| Profit per employee | — | £44.2k | £53.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲10% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲7.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▼11.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £555k | £889k | £1.2m |
| Net assets | £592k | £789k | £1m |
| Fixed assets | £158k | £227k | £275k |
| Current assets | £770k | £1.1m | £1.4m |
| Debtors | £205k | £178k | £214k |
| Deferred income | — | £27.2k | £3k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 21.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 43.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £250k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £53.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 7.3%
- 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
- 5.7%
- 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
- ▲30%
- Now £1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲31%
- Now £1.2m
- Headcount
- ▼12%
- Now 15
- Deferred income
- ▼89%
- Now £3k
- Fixed assets
- ▲21%
- Now £275k
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
- Kettles Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Kettles 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 FullAccounts for the year to 31 Jan 2025 (profit £809k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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