Marmalade Pictures Limited
Registered name: MARMALADE PICTURES LIMITED
Part of Canal+ Sa groupMarmalade Pictures Limited made £1.3m revenue and £10k profit in the year to 31 Oct 2025. read from filing text
Marmalade Pictures Limited’s revenue fell 95% to £1.3m in the year to 31 Oct 2025, with £10k profit and 1 employee. The company is classified under “motion picture production activities” and is based in London; we hold 5 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. From the filing: “The company was under the control of Studiocanal Films Limited throughout the current period. Studiocanal Films Limited owns 100% of the shares in the company.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 5 Dec 2021 | 5 Dec 2022 | 29 Oct 2023 | 31 Oct 2024 | 31 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £4.8m | £6.1m | £58.8m | £25.4m | £1.3m |
| Cost of sales | £4.8m | £6.2m | £72.1m | £32m | £1.9m |
| Gross profit | £18k | −£103k | −£13.4m | −£6.7m | −£595k |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | — | −£57.9k |
| Profit before tax | £0 | −£124k | −£13.4m | −£1.3m | £10k |
| Profit after tax | £0 | £1.6k | £23.1k | £11.9k | £10k |
| Profit (best available) | £0 | £1.6k | £23.1k | £11.9k | £10k |
| Staff costs | £0 | £60.1k | £5.6m | £1.3m | £24k |
| Employees (average) | — | 2 | 118 | 22 | 1 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0.1% | 0.8% |
| Gross margin | 0.4% | −1.7% | −22.8% | −26.2% | −45.6% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £3m | £498k | £1.2m | £1.3m |
| Profit per employee | — | £811 | £196 | £541 | £10k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲25.9% | — | — | ▼94.9% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | — | ▼16% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | — | — | ▼95.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £11.6k | £1.6m | £10.9m | £3.2m | £9.1m |
| Net assets | £100 | £1.7k | £24.8k | £36.7k | £46.7k |
| Current assets | £1.2m | £4.1m | £31.3m | £32.4m | £11.6m |
| Debtors | £1.2m | £0 | £22.5k | £0 | £2.5m |
| Deferred income | — | £21k | £1.9m | £1.5m | £75k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- −45.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.3m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 188.1%
- 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
- ▲27%
- Now £46.7k
- Cash at bank
- ▲185%
- Now £9.1m
- Headcount
- ▼95%
- Now 1
- Deferred income
- ▼95%
- Now £75k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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
- Canal+ Sa (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Studiocanal Films Ltd75–100%
- Marmalade Pictures Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (24)
- Spider Productions LimitedRev. £19.3m · Profit £25.3k
- Pressure Point Productions LimitedRev. £17.8m · Profit £23.8k
- Lennox Productions LimitedRev. £13.5m · Profit £0
- Huntington Productions LimitedRev. £12.1m · Profit £32.2k
- Project Time Productions LimitedRev. £947k · Profit £1.1k
- Nachos and Wontons Productions LimitedRev. £410k · Profit £10k
- Guernsey Productions LimitedRev. £327k · Profit £0
- Starcrossed Films LimitedRev. £202k · Profit £0
- Retribution Movie LimitedRev. £144k · Profit £0
- Commuter Productions LimitedRev. £121k · Profit £0
- Baghead Movie LimitedRev. £103k · Profit £0
- Undine Productions LimitedRev. £52.6k · Profit £0
- Meadowlands Productions LimitedRev. £22.4k · Profit £10k
- Deep Water Productions LtdRev. £16.5k · Profit £0
- Back Pack Production LimitedRev. £15.9k · Profit £0
- Midnight Library Productions LimitedRev. £10.1k · Profit £0
- Crescent Productions LimitedRev. — · Profit £10k
- Fly on the Wall Films LtdFigures not disclosed
- Gunpowder Productions LimitedRev. — · Profit £0
- Ice Wall Productions LimitedRev. — · Profit £10k
- Ink Production UK LtdFigures not disclosed
- Marmalade Escape Productions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Space Fungus Productions LimitedRev. — · Profit £5.9k
- Sweet Prince Films LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Similar profitable businesses
- Fireball Films LimitedLondon · Motion picture production activities
- Revenue
- £1.3m
- Profit
- £15k
- Staff
- 0
- Explorer Productions LimitedLondon · Motion picture production activities
- Revenue
- £1.3m
- Profit
- £16.1k
- Staff
- 0
- Mouw Productions LimitedLondon · Motion picture production activities
- Revenue
- £1.2m
- Profit
- £10.4k
- Staff
- 0
- Foodles Production (UK) LimitedLondon · Motion picture production activities
- Revenue
- £1.5m
- Profit
- £11.3k
- Staff
- 0
- Supreme Works Productions II UK LimitedLondon · Motion picture production activities
- Revenue
- £1.5m
- Profit
- £7.8k
- Staff
- 0
- Five Beans Productions LimitedLondon · Motion picture production activities
- Revenue
- £1.5m
- Profit
- £15k
- Staff
- 0
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Oct 2025 (profit £10k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Contains public sector information from Companies House licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data from Companies House, © Crown copyright. View the licence.