Best Experience Limited
Registered name: BEST EXPERIENCE LIMITED
Best Experience Limited made £15.5m revenue and £206k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Best Experience Limited’s revenue grew 2% to £15.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £206k profit and 312 employees. The company is classified under “unlicensed restaurants and cafes” and is based in Brierley Hill; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Brierley Hill, West Midlands
- 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 is a close company under the provisions of the taxing acts and is under the control of Mr P A Pearson.”
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 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.8m | £15.9m | £15.3m | £15.5m |
| Cost of sales | £5.2m | £5.5m | £5.1m | £5m |
| Gross profit | £9.5m | £10.3m | £10.2m | £10.5m |
| Operating profit | £364k | £278k | £137k | £226k |
| Profit before tax | £364k | £278k | £199k | £291k |
| Profit after tax | £243k | £215k | £140k | £206k |
| Profit (best available) | £243k | £215k | £140k | £206k |
| Staff costs | £3.9m | £4.4m | £4.4m | £4.5m |
| Employees (average) | 348 | 419 | 400 | 312 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.7% | 1.4% | 0.9% | 1.3% |
| Gross margin | 64.6% | 65.2% | 66.9% | 67.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £42.4k | £37.9k | £38.2k | £49.8k |
| Profit per employee | £699 | £513 | £350 | £662 |
| Cash conversion | 296.2% | 252.8% | 340.9% | 322.1% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲7.5% | ▼3.7% | ▲1.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼11.7% | ▼34.8% | ▲47.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲20.4% | ▼4.5% | ▼22% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.7m | £2.2m | £2.4m | £2.8m |
| Net assets | £1.9m | £2m | £2m | £2.1m |
| Fixed assets | £1.7m | £1.3m | £1.1m | £920k |
| Current assets | £2m | £2.4m | £2.6m | £3m |
| Debtors | £80.1k | £48.5k | £62.4k | £39.9k |
| Deferred income | £410k | £271k | £376k | £400k |
| Cash from operations | £1.1m | £701k | £467k | £727k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 67.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £49.8k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £662
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 322.1%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 5.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.3%
- 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 £2.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲18%
- Now £2.8m
- Headcount
- ▼22%
- Now 312
- Deferred income
- ▲6%
- Now £400k
- Fixed assets
- ▼14%
- Now £920k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £206k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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