Contract Supplies (White Goods) Ltd
Registered name: CONTRACT SUPPLIES (WHITE GOODS) LTD
Contract Supplies (White Goods) Ltd made £13.9m revenue and a £422k loss in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Contract Supplies (White Goods) Ltd’s revenue fell 14% to £13.9m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with a loss of £422k and 68 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of radio, television goods & electrical household appliances (other than records, tapes, cd's & video tapes and the equipment used for playing them)” and is based in Birmingham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Birmingham, West Midlands
- Age
- 25 yrs · since 2001
- 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 ultimate controlling party is T J Gorton by virtue of owning all of the issued share capital.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 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) | £17.6m | £19.7m | £16.1m | £13.9m |
| Cost of sales | £15.2m | £17m | £14.5m | £12.5m |
| Gross profit | £2.5m | £2.7m | £1.6m | £1.4m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £1.1m | −£174k | −£506k |
| Profit before tax | £1.1m | £1m | −£218k | −£554k |
| Profit after tax | £876k | £817k | −£177k | −£422k |
| Profit (best available) | £876k | £817k | −£177k | −£422k |
| Staff costs | £2.3m | £2.6m | £2.6m | £2.7m |
| Employees (average) | 69 | 73 | 73 | 68 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5% | 4.2% | −1.1% | −3% |
| Gross margin | 14.1% | 13.9% | 10.2% | 10% |
| Revenue per employee | £256k | £270k | £221k | £205k |
| Profit per employee | £12.7k | £11.2k | −£2.4k | −£6.2k |
| Cash conversion | −79.2% | −75.7% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲11.7% | ▼18.3% | ▼13.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼6.7% | ▼121.6% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5.8% | 0% | ▼6.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £266k | £59.5k | £195k | £89.6k |
| Net assets | £5.1m | £5.3m | £5.1m | £4.4m |
| Fixed assets | £500k | £848k | £769k | £930k |
| Current assets | £8.4m | £8.6m | £7.1m | £6.4m |
| Debtors | £4.9m | £4.3m | £2.5m | £2.8m |
| Deferred income | £43.5k | £38k | £55.8k | £61k |
| Cash from operations | −£881k | −£810k | −£1.8m | −£718k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 10%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £205k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£6.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 6.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 19.9%
- 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
- ▼14%
- Now £4.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▼54%
- Now £89.6k
- Headcount
- ▼7%
- Now 68
- Deferred income
- ▲9%
- Now £61k
- Fixed assets
- ▲21%
- Now £930k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit −£422k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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