Wye Valley Brewery Limited
Registered name: WYE VALLEY BREWERY LIMITED
Part of Wye Valley Brewery Holdings Limited groupWye Valley Brewery Limited made £19.5m revenue and £1.8m profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Wye Valley Brewery Limited’s revenue grew 7% to £19.5m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £1.8m profit and 76 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of beer” and is based in Herefordshire; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Herefordshire, West Midlands
- 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 ultimate parent company is Wye Valley Brewery Holdings Limited.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2022 | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.4m | £16.5m | £18.2m | £19.5m |
| Cost of sales | £9.6m | £11.3m | £12.6m | £13.1m |
| Gross profit | £4.8m | £5.2m | £5.6m | £6.4m |
| Operating profit | £2.4m | £2.1m | £2.1m | £2.6m |
| Profit before tax | £2.4m | £2.1m | £2.2m | £2.6m |
| Profit after tax | £1.9m | £1.5m | £1.9m | £1.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.9m | £1.5m | £1.9m | £1.8m |
| Staff costs | £2.1m | £2.6m | £3m | £3.2m |
| Employees (average) | 63 | 70 | 74 | 76 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 13.6% | 8.9% | 10.7% | 9.4% |
| Gross margin | 33.3% | 31.4% | 30.7% | 32.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £228k | £236k | £246k | £256k |
| Profit per employee | £30.9k | £21k | £26.3k | £24.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲15% | ▲10.2% | ▲6.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼24.4% | ▲32.4% | ▼6.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲11.1% | ▲5.7% | ▲2.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3.6m | £3m | £3.7m | £4.5m |
| Net assets | £4.5m | £4.5m | £6.1m | £7.6m |
| Fixed assets | £2.1m | £4.3m | £4.2m | £3.9m |
| Current assets | £6.2m | £5.4m | £5.9m | £7m |
| Debtors | £2.3m | £2m | £1.8m | £2.2m |
| Deferred income | £113k | £93.7k | £74k | £54.4k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 32.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £256k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £24.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 20%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11.3%
- 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
- ▲24%
- Now £7.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲24%
- Now £4.5m
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 76
- Deferred income
- ▼27%
- Now £54.4k
- Fixed assets
- ▼7%
- Now £3.9m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Wye Valley Brewery Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Wye Valley Brewery Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Erasmus Inns LimitedRev. — · Profit £211k
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 £1.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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