Lo's Pharmacy Limited
Registered name: LO'S PHARMACY LIMITED
Lo's Pharmacy Limited made £7.2m revenue and £167k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Lo's Pharmacy Limited’s revenue fell 1% to £7.2m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £167k profit and 70 employees. The company is classified under “dispensing chemist in specialised stores” and is based in Rotherham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 28 yrs · since 1998
- 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 | 31 Mar 2022 | 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) | £7m | £7.2m | £7.3m | £7.2m |
| Cost of sales | £4.7m | £4.9m | £5m | £5m |
| Gross profit | £2.3m | £2.2m | £2.3m | £2.2m |
| Operating profit | £782k | £279k | £285k | £176k |
| Profit before tax | £782k | £277k | £283k | £170k |
| Profit after tax | £596k | £197k | £229k | £167k |
| Profit (best available) | £596k | £197k | £229k | £167k |
| Staff costs | £1.3m | £1.4m | £1.4m | £1.7m |
| Employees (average) | 73 | 69 | 74 | 70 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 8.5% | 2.8% | 3.1% | 2.3% |
| Gross margin | 33% | 31.3% | 31.4% | 31.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £95.6k | £104k | £98.6k | £103k |
| Profit per employee | £8.2k | £2.9k | £3.1k | £2.4k |
| Cash conversion | 52.7% | −51.7% | 50% | 106.8% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3% | ▲1.6% | ▼1.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼66.9% | ▲16% | ▼27.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼5.5% | ▲7.2% | ▼5.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £224k | £178k | £15.6k | £13.9k |
| Net assets | £7.7m | £7.9m | £8.5m | £8.6m |
| Fixed assets | £1.8m | £1.6m | £1.9m | £2.3m |
| Current assets | £7.1m | £7.1m | £7.4m | £7.7m |
| Debtors | £499k | £647k | £539k | £548k |
| Deferred income | £41.5k | £28.7k | £32.9k | £24.8k |
| Cash from operations | £412k | −£144k | £142k | £188k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £103k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 106.8%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 31.5%
- 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
- 7.6%
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now £8.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▼11%
- Now £13.9k
- Headcount
- ▼5%
- Now 70
- Deferred income
- ▼25%
- Now £24.8k
- Fixed assets
- ▲19%
- Now £2.3m
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 31 Mar 2025 (profit £167k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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