Caribbean Trading Limited
Registered name: CARIBBEAN TRADING LIMITED
Part of Caribbean Trading Group Limited groupCaribbean Trading Limited made £24.1m revenue and £1.4m profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025.
Caribbean Trading Limited’s revenue grew 12% to £24.1m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £1.4m profit and 10 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of meat and meat products” and is based in Eastleigh; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Eastleigh, 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 | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £22.3m | £21.5m | £24.1m |
| Cost of sales | £19.7m | £19.3m | £21.6m |
| Gross profit | £2.5m | £2.2m | £2.4m |
| Operating profit | £1.9m | £1.2m | £1.7m |
| Profit before tax | £1.9m | £1.5m | £1.8m |
| Profit after tax | £1.5m | £1.1m | £1.4m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.5m | £1.1m | £1.4m |
| Staff costs | £445k | £484k | £1m |
| Employees (average) | 11 | 10 | 10 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 6.8% | 5.1% | 5.6% |
| Gross margin | 11.4% | 10% | 10.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £2m | £2.1m | £2.4m |
| Profit per employee | £138k | £110k | £136k |
| Cash conversion | −77.5% | −10.6% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼3.6% | ▲12.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼27.2% | ▲23.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼9.1% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £4m | £2.4m | £1.5m |
| Net assets | £6.2m | £7m | £8.3m |
| Fixed assets | £650k | £693k | £716k |
| Current assets | £7.8m | £8.4m | £10.2m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £2.9m | £2.8m |
| Cash from operations | −£1.5m | −£129k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 10.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £2.4m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £136k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11.6%
- 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
- ▲18%
- Now £8.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼36%
- Now £1.5m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 10
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲3%
- Now £716k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Caribbean Trading Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Caribbean Trading 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 30 Apr 2025 (profit £1.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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