Kitchen Architecture Limited
Registered name: KITCHEN ARCHITECTURE LIMITED
Kitchen Architecture Limited made £11.8m revenue and £386k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Kitchen Architecture Limited’s revenue fell 26% to £11.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £386k profit and 44 employees. The company is classified under “retail of furniture, lighting, and similar (not musical instruments or scores) in specialised store” and is based in Oxford; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Oxford, South East
- Age
- 24 yrs · since 2002
- Type
- Private Limited Company
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&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.5m | £15.2m | £16m | £11.8m |
| Cost of sales | £8.5m | £9m | £9.5m | £7.1m |
| Gross profit | £5m | £6.2m | £6.5m | £4.6m |
| Operating profit | £1m | £2.2m | £1.4m | £426k |
| Profit before tax | £1m | £2.2m | £1.5m | £524k |
| Profit after tax | £1m | £2.2m | £1.5m | £386k |
| Profit (best available) | £1m | £2.2m | £1.5m | £386k |
| Staff costs | £2.7m | £3.2m | £3.7m | £2.8m |
| Employees (average) | 42 | 42 | 45 | 44 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 7.5% | 14.5% | 9.6% | 3.3% |
| Gross margin | 37.1% | 41% | 40.5% | 39.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £322k | £361k | £355k | £268k |
| Profit per employee | £24.3k | £52.6k | £34.1k | £8.8k |
| Cash conversion | 154.1% | 30.3% | −55.4% | 58.7% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲12.1% | ▲5.3% | ▼26.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲116.1% | ▼30.6% | ▼74.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲7.1% | ▼2.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £6.4m | £6.9m | £6m | £5.2m |
| Net assets | £5.9m | £7.4m | £8.4m | £8.7m |
| Fixed assets | £2.5m | £2.9m | £2.9m | £3.2m |
| Current assets | £11.4m | £11.6m | £10.8m | £10.1m |
| Debtors | £43.5k | £29.9k | £62.1k | £36.8k |
| Deferred income | £111k | £83.8k | £43.9k | £93.5k |
| Cash from operations | £1.6m | £658k | −£758k | £250k |
| 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
- 3.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 39.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £268k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £8.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 58.7%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 27.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.3%
- 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
- ▲3%
- Now £8.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼14%
- Now £5.2m
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 44
- Deferred income
- ▲113%
- Now £93.5k
- Fixed assets
- ▲9%
- Now £3.2m
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 Dec 2025 (profit £386k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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