Lansdell Soft Drinks Limited
Registered name: LANSDELL SOFT DRINKS LIMITED
Part of Chapple & Jenkins Holdings Limited groupLansdell Soft Drinks Limited made £10m revenue and £738k profit in the year to 31 Jan 2025.
Lansdell Soft Drinks Limited’s revenue grew 15% to £10m in the year to 31 Jan 2025, with £738k profit and 23 employees. The company is classified under “other food services” and is based in Bristol; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bristol, South West
- 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 | 28 Feb 2023 | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £8.7m | £8.8m | £10m |
| Cost of sales | £7.1m | £6.9m | £7.5m |
| Gross profit | £1.6m | £1.9m | £2.5m |
| Operating profit | £433k | £516k | £988k |
| Profit before tax | £427k | £510k | £984k |
| Profit after tax | £348k | £353k | £738k |
| Profit (best available) | £348k | £353k | £738k |
| Employees (average) | 26 | 26 | 23 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4% | 4% | 7.4% |
| Gross margin | 18.4% | 21.8% | 25.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £336k | £337k | £436k |
| Profit per employee | £13.4k | £13.6k | £32.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲0.4% | ▲14.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲1.6% | ▲109.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▼11.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £520k | £832k | £864k |
| Net assets | £926k | £1.3m | £2m |
| Fixed assets | £167k | £131k | £180k |
| Current assets | £1.4m | £2.2m | £2.7m |
| Debtors | £602k | £829k | £1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £436k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £32.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 10.4%
- 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
- ▲58%
- Now £2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲4%
- Now £864k
- Headcount
- ▼12%
- Now 23
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲38%
- Now £180k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Chapple & Jenkins Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Chapple & Jenkins Ltd75–100%
- Lansdell Soft Drinks 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 £738k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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