Strachan Furniture Makers Limited
Registered name: STRACHAN FURNITURE MAKERS LIMITED
Part of Strachan Holdings Limited groupStrachan Furniture Makers Limited made £6.2m revenue and a £64.1k loss in the year to 30 Jun 2023. read from filing text
Strachan Furniture Makers Limited’s revenue fell 20% to £6.2m in the year to 30 Jun 2023, with a loss of £64.1k and 70 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other furniture” and is based in Leeds; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 33 yrs · since 1993
- 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: “The immediate parent company is Strachan Holdings Limited, which is the smallest and largest entity into which these accounts are consolidated. Copies of the consolidated accounts of Strachan Holdings”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7.7m | £6.2m |
| Cost of sales | £3.7m | £3.4m |
| Gross profit | £4m | £2.8m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | −£142k |
| Profit before tax | £1.1m | −£85.4k |
| Profit after tax | £913k | −£64.1k |
| Profit (best available) | £913k | −£64.1k |
| Staff costs | £2.7m | £2.5m |
| Employees (average) | 78 | 70 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 11.9% | −1% |
| Gross margin | 51.7% | 44.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £98.4k | £88k |
| Profit per employee | £11.7k | −£916 |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼19.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼107% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼10.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £2.9m | £2.4m |
| Net assets | £1.9m | £1.9m |
| Fixed assets | £478k | £390k |
| Current assets | £3.8m | £3.5m |
| Debtors | £121k | £39.4k |
| Deferred income | £288k | £196k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 44.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £88k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£916
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 6.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- 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
- ▼3%
- Now £1.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▼16%
- Now £2.4m
- Headcount
- ▼10%
- Now 70
- Deferred income
- ▼32%
- Now £196k
- Fixed assets
- ▼18%
- Now £390k
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
- Strachan Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Strachan Furniture Makers Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Convert-a-Room 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 30 Jun 2023 (profit −£64.1k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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