Chapple & Jenkins Ltd
Registered name: CHAPPLE & JENKINS LTD
Part of Chapple & Jenkins Holdings Limited groupChapple & Jenkins Ltd made £30.7m revenue and £766k profit in the year to 31 Jan 2025.
Chapple & Jenkins Ltd’s revenue fell 9% to £30.7m in the year to 31 Jan 2025, with £766k profit and 93 employees. The company is classified under “non-specialised wholesale trade” and is based in Kingswood; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Kingswood, South West
- Age
- 18 yrs · since 2008
- 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 Jan 2023 | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £23.8m | £33.7m | £30.7m |
| Cost of sales | £17.9m | £25.7m | £23.7m |
| Gross profit | £5.9m | £8m | £6.9m |
| Operating profit | £1.8m | £2.2m | £1.3m |
| Profit before tax | £1.8m | £2.1m | £1m |
| Profit after tax | £1.4m | £1.2m | £766k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.4m | £1.2m | £766k |
| Staff costs | £2.3m | £3.2m | £3m |
| Employees (average) | 84 | 113 | 93 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 5.7% | 3.7% | 2.5% |
| Gross margin | 24.7% | 23.8% | 22.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £283k | £298k | £330k |
| Profit per employee | £16.2k | £11k | £8.2k |
| Cash conversion | 67.2% | 103.9% | 113.1% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲41.8% | ▼9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼8.8% | ▼38.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲34.5% | ▼17.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1m | £1.5m | £1.4m |
| Net assets | £5.5m | £6.5m | £7m |
| Fixed assets | £4.7m | £5.7m | £6m |
| Current assets | £6.1m | £6.6m | £7.1m |
| Debtors | £3.3m | £2.8m | £3m |
| Deferred income | £497k | £646k | £805k |
| Cash from operations | £1.2m | £2.3m | £1.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £330k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £8.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 113.1%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 19.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.8%
- 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
- ▲7%
- Now £7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼7%
- Now £1.4m
- Headcount
- ▼18%
- Now 93
- Deferred income
- ▲25%
- Now £805k
- Fixed assets
- ▲4%
- Now £6m
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
- Chapple & Jenkins Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Chapple & Jenkins Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Lansdell Soft Drinks LimitedRev. £10m · Profit £738k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Jan 2025 (profit £766k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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