UK Thermos Limited
Registered name: UK THERMOS LIMITED
Part of King Warm Investments Limited groupUK Thermos Limited made £14.3m revenue and £997k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
UK Thermos Limited’s revenue grew 12% to £14.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £997k profit and 17 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of household goods (other than musical instruments)” and is based in Leeds; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber
- 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.
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 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 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) | £14.9m | £16.2m | £12.8m | £14.3m |
| Cost of sales | £10.5m | £11.9m | £10.1m | £11m |
| Gross profit | £4.4m | £4.2m | £2.7m | £3.3m |
| Operating profit | £2.8m | £2.4m | £862k | £1.4m |
| Profit before tax | £2.8m | £2.3m | £833k | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | £2.3m | £1.8m | £625k | £997k |
| Profit (best available) | £2.3m | £1.8m | £625k | £997k |
| Staff costs | £1.4m | £1.3m | £1.1m | £1.3m |
| Employees (average) | 24 | 20 | 16 | 17 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 15.1% | 11% | 4.9% | 7% |
| Gross margin | 29.5% | 26.3% | 20.8% | 23.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £621k | £809k | £798k | £841k |
| Profit per employee | £93.8k | £89.1k | £39.1k | £58.7k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲8.5% | ▼21.1% | ▲12% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼20.8% | ▼64.9% | ▲59.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼16.7% | ▼20% | ▲6.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £316k | £152k | £195k | £774k |
| Net assets | £5.8m | £5.6m | £6.2m | £7.2m |
| Fixed assets | £85k | £208k | £205k | £164k |
| Current assets | £9.7m | £12.1m | £10.9m | £11.9m |
| Debtors | £4.8m | £6.8m | £4.2m | £3.9m |
| Deferred income | £1.6m | £1.7m | £1.1m | £1.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 23.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £841k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £58.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 9.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 27.3%
- 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 £7.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲297%
- Now £774k
- Headcount
- ▲6%
- Now 17
- Deferred income
- ▲21%
- Now £1.3m
- Fixed assets
- ▼20%
- Now £164k
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
- King Warm Investments Limited (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent50–75%
- UK Thermos Holdings Limited75–100%
- UK Thermos Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- N.i. Thermos 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 2025 (profit £997k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 22 Oct 2026
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