The Mailing Room Limited
Registered name: THE MAILING ROOM LIMITED
Part of The Mailing Room Holdings Limited groupThe Mailing Room Limited made £13.8m revenue and £578k profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025. read from filing text
The Mailing Room Limited’s revenue fell 10% to £13.8m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £578k profit and 48 employees. The company is classified under “financial leasing” and is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 27 yrs · since 1999
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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 wholly owned subsidiary of The Mailing Room Holdings Limited. The registered office of The Mailing Room Holdings Limited is Bevan Kidwell LLP, 113-117 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3B”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2022 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £12.3m | £15.6m | £15.4m | £13.8m |
| Cost of sales | £5.3m | £8.1m | £7m | £7m |
| Gross profit | £7.1m | £7.5m | £8.4m | £6.8m |
| Operating profit | £2.6m | £3m | £3.1m | £779k |
| Profit before tax | £2.6m | £3m | £3m | £779k |
| Profit after tax | £2.1m | £2.3m | £2.3m | £578k |
| Profit (best available) | £2.1m | £2.3m | £2.3m | £578k |
| Staff costs | £5.1m | £6m | £7m | £7.1m |
| Employees (average) | 59 | 58 | 58 | 48 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 16.8% | 15% | 14.7% | 4.2% |
| Gross margin | 57.3% | 48.1% | 54.6% | 49% |
| Revenue per employee | £209k | £270k | £265k | £287k |
| Profit per employee | £35.1k | £40.4k | £39k | £12k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲27% | ▼1.8% | ▼10.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲13.1% | ▼3.4% | ▼74.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼1.7% | 0% | ▼17.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.8m | £1.6m | £896k | £1.4m |
| Net assets | £3.2m | £4.5m | £5.3m | £4.4m |
| Fixed assets | £300k | £237k | £485k | £349k |
| Current assets | £6.7m | £8.3m | £8.9m | £8.5m |
| Debtors | £798k | £666k | £785k | £441k |
| Deferred income | £2.1m | £2m | £2.2m | £2.7m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 49%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £287k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £12k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 19.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 3.2%
- 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
- ▼17%
- Now £4.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲61%
- Now £1.4m
- Headcount
- ▼17%
- Now 48
- Deferred income
- ▲21%
- Now £2.7m
- Fixed assets
- ▼28%
- Now £349k
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
- The Mailing Room Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- The Mailing Room Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- F.P. Executive Agency LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (10)
- Digital Post Solutions LtdFigures not disclosed
- FP Mailing (North West) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Franking Direct LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Gem U.K. Mailing Solutions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Mailing Systems LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Mailserve LtdFigures not disclosed
- Monsters Ink LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Novaburn Systems LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Mailing Room Finance LimitedFigures not disclosed
- TMR Executive Agency LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Jul 2025 (profit £578k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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