Kenton Black Limited
Registered name: KENTON BLACK LIMITED
Part of Sphere Solutions Limited groupKenton Black Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Aug 2025 show net assets of £78.8k and 23 employees.
Kenton Black Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 Aug 2025 showed net assets of £78.8k and 23 employees. The company is classified under “other activities of employment placement agencies” and is based in Cardiff; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cardiff, Wales
- 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. From the filing: “The company is a subsidiary of Kenton Black Group Limited, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom,”
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Kenton Black Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Aug 2025 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 23
- Net assets
- £78.8k
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Aug 2022 | 31 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £22.2m | £21.8m | £22.2m | — |
| Cost of sales | £17.8m | £17.6m | £18.1m | — |
| Gross profit | £4.4m | £4.2m | £4.1m | — |
| Operating profit | £538k | £192k | £255k | — |
| Profit before tax | £447k | £16.3k | £43.2k | — |
| Profit after tax | £358k | £7.6k | £49.8k | — |
| Profit (best available) | £358k | £7.6k | £49.8k | — |
| Staff costs | £3.1m | £3.1m | £1.1m | — |
| Employees (average) | 57 | 60 | 22 | 23 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.6% | 0% | 0.2% | — |
| Gross margin | 20% | 19.2% | 18.5% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £390k | £364k | £1m | — |
| Profit per employee | £6.3k | £126 | £2.3k | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼1.7% | ▲1.4% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▼97.9% | ▲556.5% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5.3% | ▼63.3% | ▲4.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £126k | £444k | £202k | £313k |
| Net assets | £401k | £203k | £74k | £78.8k |
| Fixed assets | £73.6k | £76.3k | £41.2k | £18.8k |
| Current assets | £4.7m | £4.1m | £3.3m | £4.3m |
| Debtors | £4.4m | £3.5m | £2.6m | £3.6m |
| Deferred income | £328k | £541k | £251k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
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 £78.8k
- Cash at bank
- ▲55%
- Now £313k
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 23
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼54%
- Now £18.8k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Sphere Solutions Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Sphere Solutions Eot Trustee Limited75–100%
- Sphere Projects Ltd75–100%
- Sphere Solutions Limited75–100%
- Kenton Black Group Limited75–100%
- Kenton Black Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (5)
- Kenton Black Finance LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kenton Black International LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kenton Black Northern LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kenton Black SC LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kenton Black Science & Engineering 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 Aug 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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