Retirement Line Limited
Registered name: RETIREMENT LINE LIMITED
Retirement Line Limited made £9.4m revenue and a £98.4k loss in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Retirement Line Limited’s revenue grew 2% to £9.4m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with a loss of £98.4k and 63 employees. The company is classified under “other activities auxiliary to insurance and pension funding” and is based in Peterborough; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Peterborough, East of England
- 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 company is controlled by David Norman Slater, who is the ultimate controlling party by virtue of holding a majority of the ordinary voting shares of the company.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £6.2m | £9.2m | £9.4m |
| Cost of sales | — | £4.1m | £5.6m | £5.5m |
| Gross profit | — | £2m | £3.6m | £3.9m |
| Operating profit | — | £1.2m | £2.6m | −£215k |
| Profit before tax | — | £1.2m | £2.1m | −£125k |
| Profit after tax | — | £1m | £1.5m | −£98.4k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £1m | £1.5m | −£98.4k |
| Staff costs | — | £2.6m | £4.2m | £6.6m |
| Employees (average) | 49 | 50 | 60 | 63 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | 16.8% | 16.2% | −1.1% |
| Gross margin | — | 33% | 39% | 41.8% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £124k | £154k | £149k |
| Profit per employee | — | £20.7k | £25k | −£1.6k |
| Cash conversion | — | −134.8% | −120.4% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲49.7% | ▲1.7% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲44.9% | ▼106.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2% | ▲20% | ▲5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3.4m | £4.6m | £5.4m | £5.1m |
| Net assets | £3.6m | £4.8m | £5.5m | £5.4m |
| Fixed assets | £292k | £253k | £244k | £200k |
| Current assets | £4.1m | £5.5m | £6.8m | £6.2m |
| Debtors | £699k | £824k | £1.4m | £1.2m |
| Deferred income | £340k | £404k | £977k | £563k |
| Cash from operations | — | −£1.7m | −£3.1m | £632k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −1.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 41.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £149k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£1.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.4%
- 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
- ▼2%
- Now £5.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▼6%
- Now £5.1m
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 63
- Deferred income
- ▼42%
- Now £563k
- Fixed assets
- ▼18%
- Now £200k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- Slater Property Holdings 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 Mar 2025 (profit −£98.4k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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