Vapouriz Limited
Registered name: VAPOURIZ LIMITED
Part of Japan Tobacco Inc. groupVapouriz Limited made £35.8m revenue and £4.5m profit in the year to 30 Nov 2024. read from filing text
Vapouriz Limited’s revenue fell 4% to £35.8m in the year to 30 Nov 2024, with £4.5m profit and 125 employees. The company is classified under “other retail sale in non-specialised stores” and is based in Darwen; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Darwen, North West
- Age
- 14 yrs · since 2012
- 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 ultimate controlling party as at the balance sheet date was Mr P Boyle by virtue of his majority shareholding in the ultimate parent company, Vintrex Limited (formerly Flavour Warehouse Holdings L”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Nov 2022 | 30 Nov 2023 | 30 Nov 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £23.6m | £37.2m | £35.8m |
| Cost of sales | £16.7m | £27.5m | £25m |
| Gross profit | £6.8m | £9.7m | £10.8m |
| Operating profit | £2.3m | £5.4m | £6m |
| Profit before tax | £4.2m | £5.4m | £6m |
| Profit after tax | £3.7m | £4.1m | £4.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.7m | £4.1m | £4.5m |
| Staff costs | £3.4m | £3.4m | £3.9m |
| Employees (average) | 109 | 113 | 125 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 15.8% | 11.2% | 12.5% |
| Gross margin | 28.9% | 26% | 30.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £216k | £329k | £287k |
| Profit per employee | £34.2k | £36.7k | £35.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲57.8% | ▼3.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲11.4% | ▲7.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.7% | ▲10.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £7m | £2.6m | £2.2m |
| Net assets | £2.7m | £2.8m | £7.3m |
| Fixed assets | £867k | £914k | £1.3m |
| Current assets | £12.1m | £9.2m | £8.2m |
| Debtors | £1.2m | £2.5m | £2.3m |
| Deferred income | £131k | £150k | £157k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 12.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 30.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £287k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £35.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 6.4%
- 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
- ▲160%
- Now £7.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼15%
- Now £2.2m
- Headcount
- ▲11%
- Now 125
- Deferred income
- ▲5%
- Now £157k
- Fixed assets
- ▲41%
- Now £1.3m
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
- Japan Tobacco Inc. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent50–75%
- Flavour Warehouse Limited75–100%
- Vapouriz Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (3)
- Vapestars LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Vapestore Retail LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Vapouriz Labs LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (7)
- Evapo LtdRev. £21.7m · Profit £947k
- Easytek LtdFigures not disclosed
- Premier Retail Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Premier Vaping LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Total Vapour LtdFigures not disclosed
- Vampire Vape Eliquids LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Vampire Vape LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Nov 2024 (profit £4.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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