Ace 4 Kebabs Limited
Registered name: ACE 4 KEBABS LIMITED
Part of Ace 4 Holdings Limited groupAce 4 Kebabs Limited made £12.8m revenue and £351k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Ace 4 Kebabs Limited’s revenue grew 18% to £12.8m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £351k profit and 8 employees. The company is classified under “production of meat and poultry meat products” and is based in Wokingham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wokingham, South East
- Age
- 29 yrs · since 1997
- 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 Dec 2021 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.6m | £15.1m | £10.8m | £12.8m |
| Cost of sales | £7.9m | £10.4m | £9m | £10.4m |
| Gross profit | £3.8m | £4.7m | £1.8m | £2.4m |
| Operating profit | £1.5m | £1.6m | £1.9m | £441k |
| Profit before tax | £1.5m | £4.8m | £2m | £489k |
| Profit after tax | £1.5m | £4.2m | £1.5m | £351k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.5m | £4.2m | £1.5m | £351k |
| Staff costs | £997k | £1.2m | £666k | £497k |
| Employees (average) | 25 | 25 | 11 | 8 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 12.8% | 27.6% | 13.7% | 2.7% |
| Gross margin | 32.4% | 31.3% | 16.6% | 18.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £466k | £606k | £985k | £1.6m |
| Profit per employee | £59.6k | £167k | £135k | £43.9k |
| Cash conversion | −74% | −6.2% | −157.1% | 104.9% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | — | ▲18.3% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▼76.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | — | ▼27.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1m | £1.3m | £2.3m | £1.9m |
| Net assets | £5.6m | £9.4m | £10.6m | £10.7m |
| Fixed assets | £2.5m | £261k | £1.9m | £1.9m |
| Current assets | £5.9m | £12m | £10.4m | £10.4m |
| Debtors | £1.5m | £2.2m | £3.8m | £3.4m |
| Deferred income | £79.5k | £611k | £22.4k | £16.6k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.1m | −£98.1k | −£3.1m | £463k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 18.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.6m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £43.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 104.9%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 14.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 26.7%
- 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
- ▲1%
- Now £10.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼17%
- Now £1.9m
- Headcount
- ▼27%
- Now 8
- Deferred income
- ▼26%
- Now £16.6k
- Fixed assets
- ▼2%
- Now £1.9m
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
- Ace 4 Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Ace 4 Kebabs Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Ace 4 Property 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 Mar 2025 (profit £351k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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