Pottermore Limited
Registered name: POTTERMORE LIMITED
Pottermore Limited made £54.3m revenue and £12.9m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Pottermore Limited’s revenue grew 11% to £54.3m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £12.9m profit and 38 employees. The company is classified under “other information technology service activities” and is based in 3 Dorset Rise; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- 3 Dorset Rise, London
- Age
- 17 yrs · since 2009
- Type
- Private Limited 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 | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £37.8m | £48.2m | £48.8m | £54.3m |
| Cost of sales | £27.6m | £35.3m | £32.6m | £34m |
| Gross profit | £10.2m | £12.8m | £16.2m | £20.3m |
| Operating profit | £6.4m | £9.2m | £12m | £16.1m |
| Profit before tax | £5.7m | £9.4m | £11.4m | £17.2m |
| Profit after tax | £4.6m | £7.6m | £8.6m | £12.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £4.6m | £7.6m | £8.6m | £12.9m |
| Staff costs | £1.5m | £1.6m | £1.9m | £2m |
| Employees (average) | 24 | 28 | 32 | 38 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 12.2% | 15.8% | 17.6% | 23.7% |
| Gross margin | 26.9% | 26.7% | 33.2% | 37.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £1.6m | £1.7m | £1.5m | £1.4m |
| Profit per employee | £192k | £271k | £268k | £339k |
| Cash conversion | −162.2% | 208.2% | 86.5% | 59.6% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲27.5% | ▲1.3% | ▲11.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲65.1% | ▲13.2% | ▲49.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲16.7% | ▲14.3% | ▲18.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £12.7m | £24.6m | £22.8m | £28.9m |
| Net assets | — | £6m | £3.7m | £4.9m |
| Fixed assets | £61k | £30k | — | — |
| Current assets | £26m | £33.3m | £32.2m | £49.2m |
| Debtors | £4m | £4.2m | £7.6m | £18.4m |
| Deferred income | £6m | £7.2m | £7.2m | £8.2m |
| Cash from operations | −£10.3m | £19.2m | £10.4m | £9.6m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 23.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 37.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.4m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £339k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 59.6%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 15.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 33.9%
- 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
- ▲35%
- Now £4.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▲27%
- Now £28.9m
- Headcount
- ▲19%
- Now 38
- Deferred income
- ▲13%
- Now £8.2m
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £12.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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