Velocity Outlet Ltd
Registered name: VELOCITY OUTLET LTD
Velocity Outlet Ltd made £27.4m revenue and £428k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Velocity Outlet Ltd’s revenue grew 22% to £27.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £428k profit and 20 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale via mail order houses or via internet” and is based in Cambridge; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cambridge, East of England
- Age
- 13 yrs · since 2012
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £19.1m | £22.4m | £27.4m |
| Cost of sales | −£15m | −£17.8m | −£21.9m |
| Gross profit | £4.1m | £4.6m | £5.5m |
| Operating profit | £219k | £443k | £717k |
| Profit before tax | £127k | £284k | £585k |
| Profit after tax | £95.8k | £211k | £428k |
| Profit (best available) | £95.8k | £211k | £428k |
| Employees (average) | 21 | 25 | 20 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.5% | 0.9% | 1.6% |
| Gross margin | 21.4% | 20.4% | 20.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £910k | £896k | £1.4m |
| Profit per employee | £4.6k | £8.4k | £21.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲17.3% | ▲22.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲120% | ▲103.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲19.1% | ▼20% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.4m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £21.4k
- 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
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼20%
- Now 20
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- Izilla LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £428k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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