Ladybird Inns Limited
Registered name: LADYBIRD INNS LIMITED
Part of Ladybird Group Limited groupLadybird Inns Limited made £765k revenue and a £431k loss in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Ladybird Inns Limited’s revenue grew 7% to £765k in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with a loss of £431k and 50 employees. The company is classified under “public houses and bars” and is based in Redditch; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Redditch, West Midlands
- Age
- 28 yrs · since 1998
- 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: “Ladybird Group Limited (incorporated in England and Wales) is regarded by the directors as being the company's ultimate parent company, owning 100% of the company's share capital.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £712k | £765k |
| Cost of sales | £451k | £461k |
| Gross profit | £262k | £304k |
| Operating profit | £157k | −£386k |
| Profit before tax | £106k | −£430k |
| Profit after tax | £73k | −£431k |
| Profit (best available) | £73k | −£431k |
| Staff costs | £191k | £198k |
| Employees (average) | 59 | 50 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 10.3% | −56.4% |
| Gross margin | 36.7% | 39.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £12.1k | £15.3k |
| Profit per employee | £1.2k | −£8.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲7.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼691% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼15.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £257k | £141k |
| Net assets | £3.5m | £3.1m |
| Fixed assets | £6.3m | £6.2m |
| Current assets | £367k | £330k |
| Debtors | £96.6k | £177k |
| Deferred income | £13.7k | £13.1k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −56.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 39.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £15.3k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£8.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 810.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 23.1%
- 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
- ▼12%
- Now £3.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼45%
- Now £141k
- Headcount
- ▼15%
- Now 50
- Deferred income
- ▼5%
- Now £13.1k
- Fixed assets
- ▼1%
- Now £6.2m
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
- Ladybird Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Ladybird Inns Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Ladybird Cranes LimitedRev. £3.9m · Profit £505k
- P & H Lift Trucks LimitedRev. £1m · Profit £215k
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 −£431k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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