Caterpillar Books Ltd
Registered name: CATERPILLAR BOOKS LTD
Part of Bertelsmann UK Limited groupCaterpillar Books Ltd does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Dec 2025 show net assets of £100.
Caterpillar Books Ltd did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 showed net assets of £100 and 0 employees. The company is classified under “book publishing” and is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London
- Age
- 23 yrs · since 2003
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Caterpillar Books Ltd’s accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 0
- Net assets
- £100
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £5.6m | — | — | — |
| Cost of sales | £2.8m | — | — | — |
| Gross profit | £2.7m | — | — | — |
| Operating profit | £1.9m | — | — | — |
| Profit before tax | £11.4m | — | — | — |
| Profit after tax | £11m | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | £11m | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 197.2% | — | — | — |
| Gross margin | 49% | — | — | — |
| Revenue per employee | £294k | — | — | — |
| Profit per employee | £580k | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Headcount growth | — | ▼100% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Net assets | £100 | £100 | £100 | £100 |
| Current assets | £100 | £100 | £100 | £100 |
| Debtors | £100 | £100 | £100 | £100 |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
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
- 0%
- Now £100
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- —
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Bertelsmann UK Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Penguin Random House Limited75–100%
- Caterpillar Books Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (18)
- Penguin Books LimitedRev. £280m · Profit £50.8m
- The Random House Group LimitedRev. £275m · Profit £19.4m
- Dorling Kindersley LimitedRev. £116m · Profit −£8.7m
- Little Tiger Press LimitedRev. £31.5m · Profit £1.9m
- Hay House UK LimitedRev. £15.6m · Profit £2m
- PRH International Services LimitedRev. £4.3m · Profit £155k
- Flaname 0 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Flaname 1 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Flaname 2 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Flaname 3 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Flaname 4 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Flaname 5 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Flaname 6 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Flaname 7 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Flaname 8 LimitedRev. — · Profit −£63.4k
- Hugo's Language Books LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Stripes Publishing LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Yeti Bidco LimitedRev. — · Profit −£1.5m
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 12 Oct 2026
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