Planon Ltd
Registered name: PLANON LTD
Part of Schneider Electric Se groupPlanon Ltd made £14.2m revenue and £1.5m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Planon Ltd’s revenue grew 11% to £14.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.5m profit and 49 employees. The company is classified under “business and domestic software development” and is based in Brighton; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Brighton, South East
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.7m | £12.8m | £14.2m |
| Cost of sales | £5.8m | £6m | £5.3m |
| Gross profit | £5.9m | £6.7m | £8.8m |
| Operating profit | £2.7m | £2.2m | £1.9m |
| Profit before tax | £2.7m | £2.3m | £2m |
| Profit after tax | £2.1m | £1.7m | £1.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.1m | £1.7m | £1.5m |
| Staff costs | £2.7m | £3.8m | £4.6m |
| Employees (average) | 39 | 41 | 49 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 17.8% | 13.4% | 10.3% |
| Gross margin | 50.4% | 52.7% | 62.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £300k | £312k | £289k |
| Profit per employee | £53.5k | £41.7k | £29.9k |
| Cash conversion | −83.2% | −146.6% | −157.5% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲9.2% | ▲10.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼18.1% | ▼14.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5.1% | ▲19.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £3.6m | £3.5m | £4.1m |
| Net assets | £2.6m | £1.9m | £1.6m |
| Fixed assets | £168k | £138k | £107k |
| Current assets | £7.3m | £7.7m | £8m |
| Debtors | £3.4m | £2m | £1.2m |
| Deferred income | £2.2m | £3.9m | £4.5m |
| Cash from operations | −£2.3m | −£3.2m | −£2.9m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 10.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 62.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £289k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £29.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −157.5%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 31.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 8.8%
- 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
- ▼16%
- Now £1.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲19%
- Now £4.1m
- Headcount
- ▲20%
- Now 49
- Deferred income
- ▲14%
- Now £4.5m
- Fixed assets
- ▼22%
- Now £107k
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
- Schneider Electric Se (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Planon Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Retail Zipline UK LtdFigures 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 Dec 2025 (profit £1.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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