Singleton Trading Limited
Registered name: SINGLETON TRADING LIMITED
Singleton Trading Limited made £37.4m revenue and £177k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Singleton Trading Limited’s revenue grew 10% to £37.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £177k profit and 67 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in Canary Wharf; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Liquidation
- Location
- Canary Wharf, 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 immediate parent company is Lazner Holdings Limited and the ultimate parent company is Almar Holdings Limited. The company is also the largest and smallest group into which the company is consolid”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | £46m | £33.2m | £34.1m | £37.4m |
| Cost of sales | £35m | £29.9m | £26.8m | £28.9m |
| Gross profit | £11.1m | £3.4m | £7.3m | £8.5m |
| Operating profit | £4.2m | −£3.3m | £46.9k | £1m |
| Profit before tax | £4m | −£3.8m | −£569k | £243k |
| Profit after tax | £3.3m | −£3.1m | −£438k | £177k |
| Profit (best available) | £3.3m | −£3.1m | −£438k | £177k |
| Staff costs | £1.6m | £1.6m | £1.9m | £2.3m |
| Employees (average) | 73 | 74 | 64 | 67 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 7.2% | −9.2% | −1.3% | 0.5% |
| Gross margin | 24% | 10.1% | 21.5% | 22.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £630k | £449k | £533k | £558k |
| Profit per employee | £45.5k | −£41.5k | −£6.8k | £2.6k |
| Cash conversion | 8.4% | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼27.7% | ▲2.5% | ▲9.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼192.5% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.4% | ▼13.5% | ▲4.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £158k | £0 | £0 | £272k |
| Net assets | £13.7m | £9.6m | £9.1m | £8.8m |
| Fixed assets | £336k | £372k | £274k | £229k |
| Current assets | £33m | £26.5m | £22m | £23.7m |
| Debtors | £5.4m | £3.5m | £4.9m | £5.2m |
| Deferred income | £2m | £501k | £607k | £560k |
| Cash from operations | £351k | £230k | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £558k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.8%
- 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 £8.8m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £272k
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 67
- Deferred income
- ▼8%
- Now £560k
- Fixed assets
- ▼16%
- Now £229k
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 2024 (profit £177k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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