Mowgli Street Food Limited
Registered name: MOWGLI STREET FOOD LIMITED
Part of Purpose Topco Limited groupMowgli Street Food Limited made £40.5m revenue and £512k profit in the year to 31 Jul 2024.
Mowgli Street Food Limited’s revenue grew 31% to £40.5m in the year to 31 Jul 2024, with £512k profit and 833 employees. The company is classified under “licensed restaurants” and is based in Liverpool; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Liverpool, North West
- Age
- 13 yrs · since 2013
- 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 Jul 2022 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £26.9m | £30.9m | £40.5m |
| Cost of sales | £7m | £8.4m | £10.1m |
| Gross profit | £19.9m | £22.4m | £30.4m |
| Operating profit | £2.1m | −£86k | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | £1.9m | −£476k | £512k |
| Profit after tax | £2m | −£476k | £512k |
| Profit (best available) | £2m | −£476k | £512k |
| Staff costs | £10.5m | £12.8m | £16.3m |
| Employees (average) | 633 | 704 | 833 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 7.4% | −1.5% | 1.3% |
| Gross margin | 74.1% | 72.7% | 75% |
| Revenue per employee | £42.5k | £43.9k | £48.6k |
| Profit per employee | £3.1k | −£677 | £615 |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲14.9% | ▲31.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼124% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲11.2% | ▲18.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £448k | £2.2m | £2.2m |
| Net assets | £257k | −£219k | £293k |
| Fixed assets | £9.2m | £11m | £16.5m |
| Current assets | £2.1m | £3.6m | £4.5m |
| Debtors | £11.3k | £44.5k | £48.3k |
| Deferred income | £2.1m | £2.7m | £3.2m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 75%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £48.6k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £615
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 40.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 7.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- 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
- —
- Now £293k
- Cash at bank
- ▼1%
- Now £2.2m
- Headcount
- ▲18%
- Now 833
- Deferred income
- ▲17%
- Now £3.2m
- Fixed assets
- ▲49%
- Now £16.5m
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
- Purpose Topco Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Purpose Midco Limited75–100%
- Purpose Bidco Limited75–100%
- Mowgli Street Food Group Limited75–100%
- Mowgli Street Food 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 Jul 2024 (profit £512k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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