15Below Limited
Registered name: 15BELOW LIMITED
Part of Project Venus Limited group15Below Limited made £16.2m revenue and £3.3m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2023. read from filing text
15Below Limited’s revenue grew 6% to £16.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2023, with £3.3m profit and 78 employees. The company is classified under “information technology consultancy activities” and is based in Brighton; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Brighton, South East
- Age
- 26 yrs · since 2000
- 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 parent company is 15below Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales and whose registered office is Lyndean House, 43-46 Queens Road, Brighton”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £15.2m | £16.2m |
| Cost of sales | £6.1m | £6.9m |
| Gross profit | £9.1m | £9.3m |
| Operating profit | £4.9m | £4.2m |
| Profit before tax | £4.9m | £4.3m |
| Profit after tax | £4m | £3.3m |
| Profit (best available) | £4m | £3.3m |
| Staff costs | £4.4m | £5.3m |
| Employees (average) | 68 | 78 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 26.7% | 20.3% |
| Gross margin | 60% | 57.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £223k | £207k |
| Profit per employee | £59.5k | £42k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲6.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼19.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲14.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £3.6m | £5.7m |
| Net assets | £3.6m | £6.7m |
| Fixed assets | £90.2k | £98.9k |
| Current assets | £7m | £10.9m |
| Debtors | £2m | £2.5m |
| Deferred income | £1.4m | £1.9m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 20.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 57.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £207k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £42k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 11.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 15.7%
- 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
- ▲85%
- Now £6.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲61%
- Now £5.7m
- Headcount
- ▲15%
- Now 78
- Deferred income
- ▲35%
- Now £1.9m
- Fixed assets
- ▲10%
- Now £98.9k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Project Venus Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- 15Below Holdings Limited75–100%
- 15Below Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Airbot Technology 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 Dec 2023 (profit £3.3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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