Network N Limited
Registered name: NETWORK N LIMITED
Part of Publisher Collective Limited groupNetwork N Limited made £28m revenue and £828k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2024.
Network N Limited’s revenue fell 16% to £28m in the year to 31 Mar 2024, with £828k profit and 48 employees. The company is classified under “other publishing activities” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £27.4m | £33.1m | £28m |
| Cost of sales | £15.9m | £24.3m | £21m |
| Gross profit | £11.4m | £8.8m | £7m |
| Operating profit | £4.5m | £939k | £1m |
| Profit before tax | £4.5m | £939k | £1m |
| Profit after tax | £3.7m | £1m | £828k |
| Profit (best available) | £3.7m | £1m | £828k |
| Staff costs | £4.9m | £2.8m | £2.4m |
| Employees (average) | 112 | 48 | 48 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 13.3% | 3.1% | 3% |
| Gross margin | 41.8% | 26.7% | 25% |
| Revenue per employee | £245k | £691k | £583k |
| Profit per employee | £32.6k | £21.2k | £17.2k |
| Cash conversion | 61.9% | 122.8% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲21% | ▼15.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼72.2% | ▼18.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼57.1% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £3.1m | £3.4m | £2.2m |
| Net assets | £2.5m | £2.7m | £2.6m |
| Fixed assets | £75.2k | £100k | £81.6k |
| Current assets | £9.1m | £9.1m | £7.1m |
| Debtors | £4.3m | £4.3m | £3.6m |
| Deferred income | £138k | £443k | £488k |
| Cash from operations | £2.8m | £1.2m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £583k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £17.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13%
- 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
- ▼3%
- Now £2.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▼36%
- Now £2.2m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 48
- Deferred income
- ▲10%
- Now £488k
- Fixed assets
- ▼19%
- Now £81.6k
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
- Publisher Collective Limited (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Publisher Collective Holdings Limited75–100%
- Network N Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2024 (profit £828k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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