Bermans Limited
Registered name: BERMANS LIMITED
Part of Mapd Ventures Ltd groupBermans Limited made £7.8m revenue and £1.1m profit in the year to 31 May 2024. read from filing text
Bermans Limited’s revenue grew 7% to £7.8m in the year to 31 May 2024, with £1.1m profit and 66 employees. The company is classified under “solicitors” and is based in Liverpool; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Liverpool, North West
- 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 immediate parent company”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2022 | 31 May 2023 | 31 May 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £8.4m | £7.3m | £7.8m |
| Cost of sales | £2.8m | £3.5m | £3.8m |
| Gross profit | £5.6m | £3.8m | £3.9m |
| Operating profit | £3.6m | £1.5m | £966k |
| Profit before tax | £3.6m | £1.6m | £1.1m |
| Profit after tax | £2.8m | £1.2m | £1.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.8m | £1.2m | £1.1m |
| Staff costs | £3.2m | £3.9m | £4.3m |
| Employees (average) | 68 | 69 | 66 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 33.6% | 17% | 14% |
| Gross margin | 66.7% | 52.1% | 50.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £124k | £106k | £118k |
| Profit per employee | £41.6k | £18k | £16.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼13.5% | ▲6.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼56.2% | ▼12% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.5% | ▼4.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £3m | £911k | £1.3m |
| Net assets | £5.1m | £4m | £5m |
| Fixed assets | £572k | £304k | £107k |
| Current assets | £6.5m | £4.8m | £6.1m |
| Debtors | £1.9m | £1.8m | £1.7m |
| Deferred income | £317k | £297k | £432k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 14%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 50.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £118k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £16.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 21.2%
- 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
- ▲28%
- Now £5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲45%
- Now £1.3m
- Headcount
- ▼4%
- Now 66
- Deferred income
- ▲45%
- Now £432k
- Fixed assets
- ▼65%
- 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
- Mapd Ventures Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Project Themis Limited75–100%
- Bermans Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 May 2024 (profit £1.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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