Gem Imports Limited
Registered name: GEM IMPORTS LIMITED
Gem Imports Limited made £60.2m revenue and £4.4m profit in the year to 31 Jan 2025. read from filing text
Gem Imports Limited’s revenue grew 14% to £60.2m in the year to 31 Jan 2025, with £4.4m profit and 67 employees. The company is classified under “non-specialised wholesale trade” and is based in Barnsley; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 16 yrs · since 2010
- 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 Jan 2023 | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £57.9m | £52.8m | £60.2m |
| Cost of sales | £45.9m | £41m | £48.4m |
| Gross profit | £12m | £11.8m | £11.8m |
| Operating profit | £6.4m | £6.4m | £5.9m |
| Profit before tax | £6.3m | £6.4m | £5.8m |
| Profit after tax | £5.1m | £4.8m | £4.4m |
| Profit (best available) | £5.1m | £4.8m | £4.4m |
| Staff costs | £2.1m | £2.4m | £2.3m |
| Employees (average) | 48 | 57 | 67 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 8.8% | 9.1% | 7.3% |
| Gross margin | 20.7% | 22.3% | 19.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £1.2m | £925k | £899k |
| Profit per employee | £107k | £84.4k | £65.4k |
| Cash conversion | — | −105.7% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼8.9% | ▲14.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼6.1% | ▼8.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲18.8% | ▲17.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £240k | £2.6m | £2.9m |
| Net assets | £13.6m | £17.2m | £19.5m |
| Fixed assets | £261k | £1.6m | £1.6m |
| Current assets | £19.4m | £22.7m | £27.2m |
| Debtors | £10.8m | £9.6m | £13.2m |
| Deferred income | £308k | £510k | £578k |
| Cash from operations | — | −£6.7m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 19.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £899k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £65.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 21.8%
- 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
- ▲14%
- Now £19.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲10%
- Now £2.9m
- Headcount
- ▲18%
- Now 67
- Deferred income
- ▲13%
- Now £578k
- Fixed assets
- ▲1%
- Now £1.6m
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 Jan 2025 (profit £4.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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