Store Box Self Storage Limited
Registered name: STORE BOX SELF STORAGE LIMITED
Part of Store Box Topco Limited groupStore Box Self Storage Limited made £3.6m revenue and £237k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2023. read from filing text
Store Box Self Storage Limited’s revenue grew 18% to £3.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2023, with £237k profit and 14 employees. The company is classified under “operation of warehousing and storage facilities for land transport activities” and is based in Bolton; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bolton, North West
- Age
- 17 yrs · since 2009
- 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 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £3.1m | £3.6m |
| Cost of sales | £1m | £1.1m |
| Gross profit | £2m | £2.5m |
| Operating profit | £463k | £467k |
| Profit before tax | £390k | £324k |
| Profit after tax | £326k | £237k |
| Profit (best available) | £326k | £237k |
| Employees (average) | 7 | 14 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 10.5% | 6.5% |
| Gross margin | 66.3% | 69.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £442k | £260k |
| Profit per employee | £46.5k | £16.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲17.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼27.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲100% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £4.4m | £2m |
| Net assets | — | — |
| Fixed assets | £3.9m | £5.1m |
| Debtors | — | £188k |
| Deferred income | — | £164k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 69.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £260k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £16.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 139.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 5.2%
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- ▼55%
- Now £2m
- Headcount
- ▲100%
- Now 14
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £164k
- Fixed assets
- ▲29%
- Now £5.1m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Store Box Topco Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Store Box Midco Limited75–100%
- Store Box Self Storage Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (6)
- Cambridge Storage LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Midland Container Storage LimitedFigures not disclosed
- My Lockup (Holdings) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Outer Space Storage Centres (Farnworth) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Store Box Propco LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Storebox Self Storage (Trafford) Ltd.Figures not disclosed
Sister companies (2)
- Bwi Storage LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lovespace 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 Dec 2023 (profit £237k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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