Kennings Building Supplies Limited
Registered name: KENNINGS BUILDING SUPPLIES LIMITED
Kennings Building Supplies Limited made £10.5m revenue and £336k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Kennings Building Supplies Limited’s revenue fell 11% to £10.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £336k profit and 71 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joinery” and is based in Goole; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Goole, Yorkshire and The Humber
- 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&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 | £10.9m | £11.7m | £10.5m |
| Cost of sales | £7.6m | £5.2m | £6.1m | £5.4m |
| Gross profit | £7.3m | £5.7m | £5.6m | £5m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £205k | £310k | £665k |
| Profit before tax | £1.3m | £301k | £375k | £709k |
| Profit after tax | £1m | £361k | £273k | £336k |
| Profit (best available) | £1m | £361k | £273k | £336k |
| Staff costs | £2.8m | £2.8m | £3m | £2.5m |
| Employees (average) | 89 | 83 | 84 | 71 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 6.9% | 3.3% | 2.3% | 3.2% |
| Gross margin | 49.2% | 52.5% | 47.5% | 48.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £167k | £132k | £139k | £147k |
| Profit per employee | £11.6k | £4.4k | £3.3k | £4.7k |
| Cash conversion | −104.8% | −133% | −236.4% | −203.5% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼26.6% | ▲7.1% | ▼10.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼65% | ▼24.3% | ▲23.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼6.7% | ▲1.2% | ▼15.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2.4m | £1.1m | £891k | £1.7m |
| Net assets | £5.9m | £5.4m | £5.1m | £5.2m |
| Fixed assets | £822k | £966k | £1.2m | £1.1m |
| Current assets | £6.3m | £5.4m | £5.3m | £5.2m |
| Debtors | £148k | £159k | £177k | £167k |
| Deferred income | £28.3k | £22.8k | £51k | £42.9k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.3m | −£273k | −£733k | −£1.4m |
| 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
- 3.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 48.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £147k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −203.5%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 10.8%
- 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
- 1.6%
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now £5.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲87%
- Now £1.7m
- Headcount
- ▼15%
- Now 71
- Deferred income
- ▼16%
- Now £42.9k
- Fixed assets
- ▼9%
- Now £1.1m
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 £336k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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