Buyingteam Limited
Registered name: BUYINGTEAM LIMITED
Part of Bain Byzantine Holdings Llc groupBuyingteam Limited made £30.5m revenue and £2.5m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Buyingteam Limited’s revenue grew 46% to £30.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2.5m profit and 164 employees. The company is classified under “management consultancy activities other than financial management” and is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 19 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. From the filing: “The immediate parent company is Bain Byzantine Holdings, LLC, a company incorporated in Delaware, United States of America.”
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&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) | £24.1m | £17m | £20.9m | £30.5m |
| Cost of sales | £14.8m | £11.9m | £11.4m | £15.4m |
| Gross profit | £9.3m | £5.1m | £9.5m | £15.1m |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | £3.4m |
| Profit before tax | £2.5m | −£2.1m | £2.5m | £3.4m |
| Profit after tax | £2.4m | −£2.2m | £2.6m | £2.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.4m | −£2.2m | £2.6m | £2.5m |
| Staff costs | £14.8m | £15.5m | £14.4m | £20.1m |
| Employees (average) | 174 | 159 | 141 | 164 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 10% | −13% | 12.6% | 8.1% |
| Gross margin | 38.6% | 30.1% | 45.5% | 49.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £139k | £107k | £148k | £186k |
| Profit per employee | £13.9k | −£13.9k | £18.6k | £15k |
| Cash conversion | — | — | — | −156.6% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼29.4% | ▲22.7% | ▲46% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼191.6% | — | ▼6.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼8.6% | ▼11.3% | ▲16.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £4.4m | £4.2m | £5.6m | £9.7m |
| Net assets | £2.7m | £535k | £3.2m | £5.6m |
| Fixed assets | £855k | £1m | £761k | £827k |
| Current assets | £10.5m | £7.3m | £11.8m | £16.2m |
| Debtors | £1.9m | £1.1m | £999k | £3.3m |
| Deferred income | £1.7m | £1.9m | £3.3m | £4.5m |
| Cash from operations | — | £201k | −£1.5m | −£5.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 8.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 49.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £186k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £15k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −156.6%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 14.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 10.8%
- 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
- ▲78%
- Now £5.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲73%
- Now £9.7m
- Headcount
- ▲16%
- Now 164
- Deferred income
- ▲37%
- Now £4.5m
- Fixed assets
- ▲9%
- Now £827k
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
- Bain Byzantine Holdings Llc (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Buyingteam Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
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 £2.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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