Kukri Sports Ltd.
Registered name: KUKRI SPORTS LTD.
Part of Kukri Holdings Limited groupKukri Sports Ltd. made £1.5m revenue and a £6.9m loss in the year to 31 Jan 2025. read from filing text
Kukri Sports Ltd.’s revenue grew 5% to £1.5m in the year to 31 Jan 2025, with a loss of £6.9m and 24 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of sports goods” and is based in Cheadle; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cheadle, North West
- Age
- 27 yrs · since 1999
- 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: “The Company is a subsidiary undertaking of Kukri Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales, which is the smallest and largest group in which the Company is a member. Kukri Holdings”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jan 2023 | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £1.3m | £1.4m | £1.5m |
| Operating profit | £65.1k | £86.7k | £59.7k |
| Profit before tax | £66.1k | £9.5k | −£6.9m |
| Profit after tax | £72.9k | £1.9k | −£6.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £72.9k | £1.9k | −£6.9m |
| Staff costs | £1m | £1.1m | £1.1m |
| Employees (average) | 24 | 26 | 24 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 5.7% | 0.1% | −461.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £53.7k | £54.6k | £62.3k |
| Profit per employee | £3k | £74 | −£288k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲10.1% | ▲5.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼97.4% | ▼360143% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8.3% | ▼7.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £117k | £0 | £42.3k |
| Net assets | £10.3m | £10.3m | £3.4m |
| Fixed assets | £11.9m | £11.9m | £5.2m |
| Current assets | £521k | £664k | £1.2m |
| Debtors | £403k | £664k | £1.2m |
| Deferred income | £116k | £81k | £45.1k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −461.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £62.3k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£288k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 348.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 77.6%
- 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
- ▼67%
- Now £3.4m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £42.3k
- Headcount
- ▼8%
- Now 24
- Deferred income
- ▼44%
- Now £45.1k
- Fixed assets
- ▼56%
- Now £5.2m
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
- Kukri Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Kukri Sports Ltd.this company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (4)
- Frank Harrison LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kukri Events LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kukri GB LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Squirrel Sports 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 Jan 2025 (profit −£6.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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