Zaan Group Limited
Registered name: ZAAN GROUP LIMITED
Zaan Group Limited made £23.9m revenue and a £205k loss in the year to 30 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Zaan Group Limited’s revenue grew 6% to £23.9m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with a loss of £205k and 547 employees. The company is classified under “activities of other holding companies” and is based in Gillingham; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Gillingham, South East
- Age
- 22 yrs · since 2004
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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: “Mr B Mumtaz is the ultimate controlling party by virtue of his shareholding.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £21.7m | £22.5m | £23.9m |
| Cost of sales | £7.9m | £8.1m | £8.2m |
| Gross profit | £13.9m | £14.5m | £15.7m |
| Operating profit | £330k | £85.3k | −£18.1k |
| Profit before tax | £266k | £4.6k | −£120k |
| Profit after tax | £117k | −£186k | −£205k |
| Profit (best available) | £117k | −£186k | −£205k |
| Staff costs | £7.7m | £8.9m | £10.2m |
| Employees (average) | 518 | 574 | 547 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.5% | −0.8% | −0.9% |
| Gross margin | 63.8% | 64.2% | 65.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £41.9k | £39.2k | £43.7k |
| Profit per employee | £226 | −£324 | −£374 |
| Cash conversion | −95.4% | −1454% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3.7% | ▲6.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼258.7% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲10.8% | ▼4.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.5m | £1m | £379k |
| Net assets | £4.1m | £3.8m | £3.5m |
| Fixed assets | £3.3m | £4.4m | £4.3m |
| Current assets | £4.9m | £4.2m | £6.7m |
| Debtors | £589k | £215k | £685k |
| Deferred income | £18k | £21k | £18k |
| Cash from operations | −£315k | −£1.2m | £2.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 65.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £43.7k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£374
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 18%
- 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
- 2.9%
- 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
- ▼9%
- Now £3.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼64%
- Now £379k
- Headcount
- ▼5%
- Now 547
- Deferred income
- ▼14%
- Now £18k
- Fixed assets
- ▼1%
- Now £4.3m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- KM Partnership LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Apr 2025 (profit −£205k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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