Plugin Boutique Limited
Registered name: PLUGIN BOUTIQUE LIMITED
Plugin Boutique Limited made £24.8m revenue and £306k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Plugin Boutique Limited’s revenue fell 9% to £24.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £306k profit and 23 employees. The company is classified under “other software publishing” and is based in Lewes; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Lewes, South East
- 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. From the filing: “The immediate parent company is Beatport LLC, a company registered in the United States of America, whose results are consolidated into Lifestyle Holdings, Inc.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £23.1m | £27.2m | £24.8m |
| Cost of sales | £17.3m | £19.6m | £17.8m |
| Gross profit | £5.7m | £7.6m | £6.9m |
| Operating profit | £3.3m | £4.3m | £283k |
| Profit before tax | £3.3m | £4.3m | £262k |
| Profit after tax | £2.7m | £3.3m | £306k |
| Profit (best available) | £2.7m | £3.3m | £306k |
| Staff costs | £1.1m | £1.2m | £1m |
| Employees (average) | 18 | 20 | 23 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 11.5% | 12.2% | 1.2% |
| Gross margin | 24.8% | 28% | 28% |
| Revenue per employee | £1.3m | £1.4m | £1.1m |
| Profit per employee | £147k | £166k | £13.3k |
| Cash conversion | −33.1% | −5.4% | −40.7% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲17.8% | ▼8.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲25% | ▼90.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲11.1% | ▲15% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £4.9m | £3.7m | £2.1m |
| Net assets | £9.8m | £13.1m | £13.4m |
| Fixed assets | £877k | £1.1m | £1.2m |
| Current assets | £15.6m | £18.1m | £19m |
| Debtors | £164k | £327k | £201k |
| Deferred income | £5m | £0 | £1.1m |
| Cash from operations | −£1.1m | −£233k | −£115k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 28%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.1m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £13.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −40.7%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now £13.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▼43%
- Now £2.1m
- Headcount
- ▲15%
- Now 23
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £1.1m
- Fixed assets
- ▲16%
- Now £1.2m
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit £306k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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