Tonkin Products Limited
Registered name: TONKIN PRODUCTS LIMITED
Tonkin Products Limited made £26m revenue and £890k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Tonkin Products Limited’s revenue grew 10% to £26m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £890k profit and 30 employees. The company is classified under “other food services” and is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 23 yrs · since 2003
- 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 G Whitlam by virtue of his majority shareholding.”
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) | £20.5m | £26.8m | £23.7m | £26m |
| Cost of sales | £16.9m | £24.4m | £19.7m | £21.5m |
| Gross profit | £3.6m | £2.4m | £4m | £4.5m |
| Operating profit | £1.6m | £396k | £1.2m | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | £1.6m | £317k | £1.1m | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.4m | £351k | £855k | £890k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.4m | £351k | £855k | £890k |
| Staff costs | £1.1m | £1.2m | £1.6m | £1.8m |
| Employees (average) | 25 | 30 | 29 | 30 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 6.7% | 1.3% | 3.6% | 3.4% |
| Gross margin | 17.4% | 8.9% | 16.7% | 17.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £819k | £893k | £818k | £866k |
| Profit per employee | £55k | £11.7k | £29.5k | £29.7k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲30.8% | ▼11.5% | ▲9.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼74.5% | ▲143.7% | ▲4.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲20% | ▼3.3% | ▲3.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £604k | £507k | £2.3m | £2.3m |
| Net assets | £3.4m | £3.4m | £3.9m | £4.4m |
| Fixed assets | £76.1k | £74.4k | £60.9k | £47.3k |
| Current assets | £6.9m | £6.1m | £6.6m | £7.4m |
| Debtors | £1.2m | £928k | £993k | £1.2m |
| Deferred income | £256k | £0 | £24k | £23.9k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 17.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £866k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £29.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 4.6%
- 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
- ▲14%
- Now £4.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲3%
- Now £2.3m
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 30
- Deferred income
- ▼0%
- Now £23.9k
- Fixed assets
- ▼22%
- Now £47.3k
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £890k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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