Hamblys Limited
Registered name: HAMBLYS LIMITED
Part of Barrett Partnership Limited groupHamblys Limited made £30.5m revenue and a £16k loss in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Hamblys Limited’s revenue was £30.5m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with a loss of £16k and 66 employees. The company is classified under “repair of machinery” and is based in Launceston; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Launceston, South West
- Age
- 17 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 Barrett Partnership Limited, a company registered in England and Wales.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £32.5m | £30.6m | £30.5m |
| Cost of sales | £30.4m | £28.5m | £28.4m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £2.1m | £2.1m |
| Operating profit | £489k | £173k | £99.4k |
| Profit before tax | £448k | £24.9k | −£29k |
| Profit after tax | £353k | £15.2k | −£16k |
| Profit (best available) | £353k | £15.2k | −£16k |
| Staff costs | £2.8m | £2.9m | £2.8m |
| Employees (average) | 64 | 66 | 66 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.1% | 0.1% | −0.1% |
| Gross margin | 6.7% | 6.9% | 6.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £508k | £464k | £463k |
| Profit per employee | £5.5k | £230 | −£242 |
| Cash conversion | 300% | −1096% | −1780% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼5.9% | ▼0.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼95.7% | ▼205.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.1% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.1k | £1.1k | £3.6k |
| Net assets | £3.4m | £3.4m | £3.4m |
| Fixed assets | £1.2m | £1.3m | £1.4m |
| Current assets | £10.1m | £9.5m | £8.1m |
| Debtors | £2.6m | £2.5m | £2.1m |
| Deferred income | £753k | £1.1m | £900k |
| Cash from operations | £1.5m | −£1.9m | −£1.8m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 6.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £463k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£242
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −1780%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 4.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 6.9%
- 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
- ▼0%
- Now £3.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲238%
- Now £3.6k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 66
- Deferred income
- ▼21%
- Now £900k
- Fixed assets
- ▲4%
- Now £1.4m
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
- Barrett Partnership Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Hamblys 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 30 Sep 2025 (profit −£16k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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