Valuelights Limited
Registered name: VALUELIGHTS LIMITED
Part of Burning Sky Limited groupValuelights Limited made £14.3m revenue and a £874k loss in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Valuelights Limited’s revenue fell 10% to £14.3m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with a loss of £874k and 73 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale via mail order houses or via internet” and is based in Manchester; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Manchester, 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. From the filing: “The immediate parent company ValueLights Holdings 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 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.7m | £15.8m | £14.3m |
| Cost of sales | £8.6m | £7.8m | — |
| Gross profit | £6.1m | £8m | — |
| Operating profit | −£2.9m | −£1.8m | −£870k |
| Profit before tax | −£3.5m | −£1.9m | −£874k |
| Profit after tax | −£3.5m | −£1.9m | −£874k |
| Profit (best available) | −£3.5m | −£1.9m | −£874k |
| Staff costs | £3.1m | £3.3m | £3.3m |
| Employees (average) | 78 | 77 | 73 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −23.6% | −12% | −6.1% |
| Gross margin | 41.6% | 50.8% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £189k | £206k | £196k |
| Profit per employee | −£44.6k | −£24.7k | −£12k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲7.5% | ▼9.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼1.3% | ▼5.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £358k | £159k | £116k |
| Net assets | −£3.1m | −£5m | −£6.1m |
| Fixed assets | £3.5m | £3m | £2.8m |
| Current assets | £6m | £7.1m | £9.5m |
| Debtors | £185k | £344k | £588k |
| Deferred income | £1.9m | £1.7m | £2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −6.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £196k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£12k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 19.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 13.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 4.1%
- 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 −£6.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼27%
- Now £116k
- Headcount
- ▼5%
- Now 73
- Deferred income
- ▲13%
- Now £2m
- Fixed assets
- ▼10%
- Now £2.8m
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
- Burning Sky Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Valuelights Holdings Limited75–100%
- Valuelights Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (8)
- Iconic Lights LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lse Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Minisun Lighting LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Minisun LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Lighting Factory Shop LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Value Logistics Solutions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Valuelights Europe LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Valuelights Group 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 30 Jun 2025 (profit −£874k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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