Fleet Retail Packaging Ltd.
Registered name: FLEET RETAIL PACKAGING LTD.
Part of Lowry Holdco Ltd groupFleet Retail Packaging Ltd. made £13.2m revenue and £199k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Fleet Retail Packaging Ltd.’s revenue was £13.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £199k profit and 21 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other paper and paperboard containers” and is based in Rochester; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Rochester, South East
- Age
- 22 yrs · since 2004
- 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.
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&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £9.9m | £11m | £13.2m | £13.2m |
| Cost of sales | £7.7m | £8.5m | £10.3m | £10.4m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £2.5m | £2.9m | £2.8m |
| Operating profit | £438k | £508k | £680k | £403k |
| Profit before tax | £320k | £347k | £446k | £258k |
| Profit after tax | £248k | £255k | £324k | £199k |
| Profit (best available) | £248k | £255k | £324k | £199k |
| Staff costs | — | £634k | £755k | £959k |
| Employees (average) | 13 | 15 | 17 | 21 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2.5% | 2.3% | 2.5% | 1.5% |
| Gross margin | 22.5% | 22.9% | 21.8% | 21.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £763k | £730k | £777k | £631k |
| Profit per employee | £19.1k | £17k | £19k | £9.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲10.4% | ▲20.6% | ▲0.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲3% | ▲26.8% | ▼38.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲15.4% | ▲13.3% | ▲23.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £236k | £284k | £65.5k | £373k |
| Net assets | £1.3m | £1.4m | £1.5m | £1.7m |
| Fixed assets | £612k | £510k | £415k | £610k |
| Current assets | £5.5m | £7.3m | £6.5m | £6.1m |
| Debtors | £2.1m | £3.3m | £3.2m | £2.5m |
| Deferred income | £55.5k | £160k | £131k | £70.5k |
| 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
- 1.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 21.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £631k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £9.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 4.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 19.1%
- 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
- ▲13%
- Now £1.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲470%
- Now £373k
- Headcount
- ▲24%
- Now 21
- Deferred income
- ▼46%
- Now £70.5k
- Fixed assets
- ▲47%
- Now £610k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Lowry Holdco Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Fleet Retail Group Limited75–100%
- Fleet Retail Packaging Ltd.this company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Fleet Luxury Packaging LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £199k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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