Furniture Choice Limited
Registered name: FURNITURE CHOICE LIMITED
Furniture Choice Limited made £14.5m revenue and a £1.5m loss in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Furniture Choice Limited’s revenue fell 30% to £14.5m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with a loss of £1.5m and 55 employees. The company is classified under “retail of furniture, lighting, and similar (not musical instruments or scores) in specialised store” and is based in Heckmondwike; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Heckmondwike, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 21 yrs · since 2005
- Type
- Private Limited Company
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) | £38.8m | £28.3m | £20.8m | £14.5m |
| Cost of sales | £33.7m | £23.4m | £17.4m | £12.5m |
| Gross profit | £5.1m | £4.9m | £3.4m | £2m |
| Operating profit | £385k | £203k | −£1.3m | −£1.6m |
| Profit before tax | £379k | £187k | −£1.3m | −£1.5m |
| Profit after tax | £304k | £142k | −£1.2m | −£1.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £304k | £142k | −£1.2m | −£1.5m |
| Staff costs | £2.6m | £2.4m | £2.3m | £1.8m |
| Employees (average) | 111 | 90 | 78 | 55 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 0.8% | 0.5% | −6% | −10.6% |
| Gross margin | 13.2% | 17.3% | 16.4% | 13.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £350k | £314k | £266k | £263k |
| Profit per employee | £2.7k | £1.6k | −£16k | −£27.9k |
| Cash conversion | 1749% | −1203% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼27.2% | ▼26.5% | ▼30.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼53.5% | ▼979.6% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼18.9% | ▼13.3% | ▼29.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3.1m | £4.7m | £4.2m | £2.1m |
| Net assets | £7.6m | £7.7m | £6.4m | £4.3m |
| Fixed assets | £216k | £185k | £199k | £461k |
| Current assets | £13.3m | £10.4m | £8.2m | £5.5m |
| Debtors | £377k | £254k | £297k | £176k |
| Deferred income | £294k | £204k | £212k | £280k |
| Cash from operations | £6.7m | −£2.4m | £117k | £1.7m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −10.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £263k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£27.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.2%
- 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
- ▼32%
- Now £4.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼50%
- Now £2.1m
- Headcount
- ▼29%
- Now 55
- Deferred income
- ▲32%
- Now £280k
- Fixed assets
- ▲132%
- Now £461k
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)
- Furniture and Choice 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 Mar 2025 (profit −£1.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 14 Oct 2026
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