Pukka Pads 2000 Limited
Registered name: PUKKA PADS 2000 LIMITED
Part of Pukka Pads UK Limited groupPukka Pads 2000 Limited made £19m revenue and £316k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025.
Pukka Pads 2000 Limited’s revenue fell 11% to £19m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £316k profit and 63 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of paper stationery” and is based in Poole; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Poole, South West
- Age
- 27 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: “Pukka Pads UK Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £21.3m | £19m |
| Cost of sales | £17.4m | £15m |
| Gross profit | £3.9m | £4m |
| Profit before tax | £198k | £437k |
| Profit after tax | £143k | £316k |
| Profit (best available) | £143k | £316k |
| Staff costs | £2.9m | £2.6m |
| Employees (average) | 76 | 63 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 0.7% | 1.7% |
| Gross margin | 18.4% | 20.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £281k | £302k |
| Profit per employee | £1.9k | £5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼10.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲121.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼17.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £93.5k | £26k |
| Net assets | £3.6m | £3.6m |
| Fixed assets | £1.4m | £1.5m |
| Current assets | £10.6m | £8.1m |
| Debtors | £3.7m | £3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £302k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 15.8%
- 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 £3.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▼72%
- Now £26k
- Headcount
- ▼17%
- Now 63
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲6%
- Now £1.5m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Pukka Pads UK Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Pukka Pads 2000 Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (6)
- Party Centric LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pukka Pads LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pukka Pads Property LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pukka Pads Stationery LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pukka Power LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Yorkshire Print and Packaging Solutions 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 30 Sep 2025 (profit £316k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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