Cot Trading Limited
Registered name: COT TRADING LIMITED
Part of Canterbury Oast Trust groupCot Trading Limited made £141k revenue and a £9.8k loss in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Cot Trading Limited’s revenue fell 5% to £141k in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with a loss of £9.8k and 0 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating” and is based in Ashford Kent; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Ashford Kent, South East
- Age
- 32 yrs · since 1994
- 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 | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | £149k | £141k |
| Cost of sales | — | — | £63.6k | £60.6k |
| Gross profit | — | — | £84.9k | £80k |
| Operating profit | — | — | £13.3k | −£9.1k |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £12.5k | −£9.8k |
| Profit after tax | — | — | £12.5k | −£9.8k |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | £12.5k | −£9.8k |
| Employees (average) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | 8.4% | −7% |
| Gross margin | — | — | 57.2% | 56.9% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | — | ▼5.3% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▼178.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £12.4k | £5.8k | £386 | £107 |
| Net assets | −£30.2k | −£44.1k | −£31.6k | −£41.4k |
| Fixed assets | £1.6k | £923 | £0 | — |
| Current assets | £27.3k | £21.4k | £14.1k | £6.3k |
| Debtors | £0 | £3.7k | £100 | £2k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 56.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- 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
- —
- Now −£41.4k
- Cash at bank
- ▼72%
- Now £107
- Headcount
- —
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Canterbury Oast Trust (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Cot 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 31 Mar 2025 (profit −£9.8k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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