Reuters News & Media Limited
Registered name: REUTERS NEWS & MEDIA LIMITED
Part of Thomson Reuters Finance S.A. groupReuters News & Media Limited made £236m revenue and £9.4m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Reuters News & Media Limited’s revenue was £236m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £9.4m profit and 1,045 employees. The company is classified under “news agency activities” and is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- 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. From the filing: “TTC Holdings Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £241m | £241m | £237m | £236m |
| Operating profit | £27.8m | £27.5m | £8.1m | £1.8m |
| Profit before tax | £27.5m | £27.3m | £7.5m | £746k |
| Profit after tax | £26.5m | £25.3m | £1.9m | £9.4m |
| Profit (best available) | £26.5m | £25.3m | £1.9m | £9.4m |
| Staff costs | £88.9m | £94m | £100m | £108m |
| Employees (average) | 912 | 994 | 1,009 | 1,045 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 11% | 10.5% | 0.8% | 4% |
| Revenue per employee | £264k | £242k | £234k | £226k |
| Profit per employee | £29k | £25.4k | £1.9k | £9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲0.1% | ▼1.8% | ▼0.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼4.6% | ▼92.5% | ▲402.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲9% | ▲1.5% | ▲3.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2.8m | £3.5m | £3m | £2m |
| Net assets | £187m | £213m | £190m | £201m |
| Fixed assets | £157m | £150m | £201m | £194m |
| Current assets | £102m | £141m | £95.3m | £72.6m |
| Debtors | £98.5m | £137m | £92m | £69.9m |
| Deferred income | £34.9m | £31.5m | £31.4m | £27.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £226k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 82.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 11.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 29.6%
- 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
- ▲6%
- Now £201m
- Cash at bank
- ▼33%
- Now £2m
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 1,045
- Deferred income
- ▼14%
- Now £27.1m
- Fixed assets
- ▼3%
- Now £194m
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
- Thomson Reuters Finance S.A. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Thomson Reuters Investment Holdings Limited75–100%
- TR (2008) Limited75–100%
- Thomson Reuters Group Limited75–100%
- Reuters News & Media Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Reuters 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 Dec 2025 (profit £9.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 22 Oct 2026
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