Cold Move Limited
Registered name: COLD MOVE LIMITED
Cold Move Limited made £5.4m revenue and £342k profit in the year to 1 Nov 2025.
Cold Move Limited’s revenue grew 12% to £5.4m in the year to 1 Nov 2025, with £342k profit and 57 employees. The company is classified under “processing and preserving of meat” and is based in Oswestry; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Oswestry, West Midlands
- Age
- 30 yrs · since 1996
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 28 Oct 2023 | 26 Oct 2024 | 1 Nov 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £4.9m | £4.9m | £5.4m |
| Cost of sales | £39k | £28.6k | £46.5k |
| Gross profit | £4.8m | £4.8m | £5.4m |
| Operating profit | £595k | £673k | £565k |
| Profit before tax | £561k | £495k | £383k |
| Profit after tax | £441k | £354k | £342k |
| Profit (best available) | £441k | £354k | £342k |
| Staff costs | £1.6m | £1.8m | £2.2m |
| Employees (average) | 51 | 53 | 57 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 9% | 7.2% | 6.3% |
| Gross margin | 99.2% | 99.4% | 99.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £95.7k | £92k | £95.4k |
| Profit per employee | £8.7k | £6.7k | £6k |
| Cash conversion | −356.9% | −153.6% | −169.8% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼0.1% | ▲11.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼19.9% | ▼3.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.9% | ▲7.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £624k | £677k | £1.3m |
| Net assets | £8.8m | £9.2m | £9.3m |
| Fixed assets | £10.5m | £11.2m | £11.1m |
| Current assets | £1.7m | £2m | £3m |
| Debtors | £513k | £575k | £818k |
| Deferred income | £287k | £312k | £219k |
| Cash from operations | −£2.1m | −£1m | −£959k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 99.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £95.4k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −169.8%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 203.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 15%
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now £9.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲93%
- Now £1.3m
- Headcount
- ▲8%
- Now 57
- Deferred income
- ▼30%
- Now £219k
- Fixed assets
- ▼1%
- Now £11.1m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 1 Nov 2025 (profit £342k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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