Samy Limited
Registered name: SAMY LIMITED
Part of Samy Group Ltd groupSamy Limited made £38.9m revenue and £946k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Samy Limited’s revenue fell 1% to £38.9m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £946k profit and 171 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating” and is based in Birmingham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Birmingham, West Midlands
- Age
- 15 yrs · since 2011
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £26m | £35.4m | £39.5m | £38.9m |
| Cost of sales | £22.1m | £29.5m | £31.7m | £31.6m |
| Gross profit | £3.9m | £5.9m | £7.7m | £7.3m |
| Operating profit | £626k | £1.5m | £1.8m | £1.3m |
| Profit before tax | £568k | £1.4m | £1.7m | £1.3m |
| Profit after tax | £455k | £1.1m | £1.3m | £946k |
| Profit (best available) | £455k | £1.1m | £1.3m | £946k |
| Staff costs | £882k | £1.6m | £2.7m | — |
| Employees (average) | 86 | 99 | 162 | 171 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.8% | 3.2% | 3.3% | 2.4% |
| Gross margin | 15% | 16.7% | 19.6% | 18.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £302k | £358k | £244k | £227k |
| Profit per employee | £5.3k | £11.6k | £7.9k | £5.5k |
| Cash conversion | 76.8% | −248.5% | 50% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲36.5% | ▲11.4% | ▼1.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲152.7% | ▲11.8% | ▼26.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲15.1% | ▲63.6% | ▲5.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £505k | £2.9m | £2.2m | £594k |
| Net assets | — | £2.4m | £3.7m | £4.7m |
| Fixed assets | £1.5m | £2.5m | £2.3m | £2.7m |
| Current assets | £2.7m | £4.8m | £6.3m | £8.9m |
| Debtors | £125k | £72k | £227k | £196k |
| Cash from operations | £480k | −£3.7m | £899k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 18.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £227k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 6.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.5%
- 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
- ▲25%
- Now £4.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼73%
- Now £594k
- Headcount
- ▲6%
- Now 171
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲15%
- Now £2.7m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Samy Group Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Samy Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (6)
- Samy Investments LtdRev. £52.3m · Profit £1.3m
- MPK Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Samy (County) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Samy Services LtdFigures not disclosed
- Stayte Energy LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offFigures not disclosed
- W.j.hiscock & Son,limitedRev. — · Profit −£241k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FilletedAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £946k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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