Trust Retail Ltd
Registered name: TRUST RETAIL LTD
Part of Trust Payments Holdings Ltd groupTrust Retail Ltd made £2.6m revenue and £628k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Trust Retail Ltd’s revenue grew 13% to £2.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £628k profit and 0 employees. The company is classified under “information technology consultancy activities” and is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 15 yrs · since 2011
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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: “Trust Payments Ltd”
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 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £3.7m | £2.8m | £2.3m | £2.6m |
| Cost of sales | £267k | £129k | £163k | £302k |
| Gross profit | £3.5m | £2.6m | £2.1m | £2.3m |
| Operating profit | £701k | £132k | £795k | £633k |
| Profit before tax | £698k | £119k | £791k | £628k |
| Profit after tax | £687k | £140k | £787k | £628k |
| Profit (best available) | £687k | £140k | £787k | £628k |
| Staff costs | £2.3m | £2m | £1.1m | £1.4m |
| Employees (average) | 38 | 37 | 0 | 0 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 18.5% | 5.1% | 34.1% | 24.2% |
| Gross margin | 92.8% | 95.3% | 92.9% | 88.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £97.9k | £74.7k | — | — |
| Profit per employee | £18.1k | £3.8k | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼25.7% | ▼16.6% | ▲12.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼79.6% | ▲461.8% | ▼20.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼2.6% | ▼100% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £106k | £17.1k | £18k | £15.7k |
| Net assets | £3m | £3.1m | £3.9m | £4.5m |
| Fixed assets | £242k | £124k | £1.2m | £3.2m |
| Current assets | £3.5m | £3.4m | £3.1m | £2.4m |
| Debtors | £453k | £440k | £113k | £317k |
| Deferred income | £448k | £177k | £103k | £473k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 24.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 88.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 122.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 18.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.2%
- 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
- ▲16%
- Now £4.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼13%
- Now £15.7k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- ▲361%
- Now £473k
- Fixed assets
- ▲164%
- Now £3.2m
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
- Trust Payments Holdings Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Trust Payments Ltd75–100%
- Trust Retail Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Sure Can Pay LimitedRev. — · Profit −£15.3k
Sister companies (3)
- Trustuk Payments LtdRev. £116m · Profit £3.9m
- Trust Payments (UK) LtdRev. £12.8m · Profit −£5.6m
- Core Cloud Group LtdRev. £11k · Profit −£49.3k
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 2025 (profit £628k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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