Dolce Limited
Registered name: DOLCE LIMITED
Part of Demeter Midco Limited groupDolce Limited made £58.5m revenue and £3.8m profit in the year to 25 Jul 2025. read from filing text
Dolce Limited’s revenue was £58.5m in the year to 25 Jul 2025, with £3.8m profit and 2,228 employees. The company is classified under “other service activities” and is based in Woking; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Woking, South East
- Age
- 36 yrs · since 1990
- 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 Aug 2022 | 25 Aug 2023 | 30 Aug 2024 | 25 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £34.9m | £45.9m | £53.5m | £58.5m |
| Cost of sales | £27.9m | £36.3m | £39.8m | £44.4m |
| Gross profit | £7m | £9.6m | £13.7m | £14.1m |
| Operating profit | — | — | £3.7m | £4.9m |
| Profit before tax | −£932k | £881k | £3.9m | £5.1m |
| Profit after tax | −£730k | £615k | £2.8m | £3.8m |
| Profit (best available) | −£730k | £615k | £2.8m | £3.8m |
| Staff costs | £20.1m | £24.4m | £27.2m | £30.1m |
| Employees (average) | 1,765 | 2,069 | 2,113 | 2,228 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | −2.1% | 1.3% | 5.3% | 6.6% |
| Gross margin | 20.2% | 20.9% | 25.6% | 24% |
| Revenue per employee | £19.8k | £22.2k | £25.3k | £26.3k |
| Profit per employee | −£414 | £297 | £1.3k | £1.7k |
| Cash conversion | — | — | −165.5% | −175.6% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲31.5% | ▲16.5% | — |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲359.2% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲17.2% | ▲2.1% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £709k | £3m | £6m | £13.7m |
| Net assets | £3.5m | £4.7m | £7.3m | £7.8m |
| Fixed assets | £111k | £69k | £86k | £84.5k |
| Current assets | £6.1m | £7.6m | £9.7m | £20m |
| Debtors | £2.2m | £2.9m | £2.3m | £4.4m |
| Deferred income | — | — | £1.1m | £3.7m |
| Cash from operations | — | — | −£6.1m | −£8.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 24%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £26.3k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −175.6%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 6.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 7.5%
- 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 £7.8m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £13.7m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 2,228
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £3.7m
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £84.5k
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
- Demeter Midco Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Impact Food Group Limited75–100%
- D3S Enterprise Ltd75–100%
- Dolce 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 25 Jul 2025 (profit £3.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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