Barrafina Limited
Registered name: BARRAFINA LIMITED
Part of Harts Group Ltd groupBarrafina Limited made £13m revenue and £371k profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025. read from filing text
Barrafina Limited’s revenue fell 3% to £13m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £371k profit and 172 employees. The company is classified under “licensed restaurants” and is based in Oakham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Oakham, East Midlands
- Age
- 20 yrs · since 2006
- 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 Jul 2022 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £10.6m | £14.6m | £13.4m | £13m |
| Cost of sales | £2.9m | £5.5m | £3.8m | £3.3m |
| Gross profit | £7.8m | £9.1m | £9.6m | £9.7m |
| Operating profit | £828k | £347k | £302k | £493k |
| Profit before tax | £694k | £217k | £225k | £406k |
| Profit after tax | £444k | £138k | £145k | £371k |
| Profit (best available) | £444k | £138k | £145k | £371k |
| Staff costs | £3.9m | £4.9m | £4.9m | £5m |
| Employees (average) | 154 | 176 | 186 | 172 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 4.2% | 0.9% | 1.1% | 2.9% |
| Gross margin | 73.1% | 62.5% | 71.5% | 74.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £69.1k | £83k | £71.9k | £75.4k |
| Profit per employee | £2.9k | £783 | £781 | £2.2k |
| Cash conversion | 401.9% | −134.6% | −258.6% | −91.4% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲37.4% | ▼8.5% | ▼3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼69% | ▲5.4% | ▲155.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲14.3% | ▲5.7% | ▼7.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.3m | £1.3m | £1.2m | £923k |
| Net assets | £1.4m | £1.3m | £1.3m | £1.4m |
| Fixed assets | £7.2m | £6.6m | £6m | £5.4m |
| Current assets | £3m | £3.5m | £3m | £2.9m |
| Debtors | £177k | £284k | £273k | £241k |
| Deferred income | £1.1m | £936k | £798k | £2m |
| Cash from operations | £3.3m | −£467k | −£781k | −£450k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 74.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £75.4k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −91.4%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 41.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 15.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.9%
- 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
- ▲6%
- Now £1.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▼25%
- Now £923k
- Headcount
- ▼8%
- Now 172
- Deferred income
- ▲148%
- Now £2m
- Fixed assets
- ▼11%
- Now £5.4m
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
- Harts Group Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Barrafina Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Barrafina International LtdFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (3)
- Barrafina Outside Catering LtdFigures not disclosed
- Fino Restaurant LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Quo Vadis Soho 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 Jul 2025 (profit £371k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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