Capital Pizza Limited
Registered name: CAPITAL PIZZA LIMITED
Part of Palico Limited groupCapital Pizza Limited made £7.9m revenue and a £344k loss in the year to 28 Dec 2025.
Capital Pizza Limited’s revenue fell 6% to £7.9m in the year to 28 Dec 2025, with a loss of £344k and 162 employees. The company is classified under “take-away food shops and mobile food stands” and is based in Banbury; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Banbury, South East
- Age
- 11 yrs · since 2015
- 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 | 29 Dec 2023 | 28 Dec 2024 | 29 Dec 2024 | 28 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £8.1m | £8.3m | £8.3m | £7.9m |
| Cost of sales | −£6.2m | −£6.2m | −£6.2m | −£5.9m |
| Gross profit | £1.9m | £2.1m | £2.1m | £2m |
| Operating profit | −£630k | −£401k | −£401k | −£261k |
| Profit before tax | −£630k | £189k | £189k | −£245k |
| Profit after tax | −£660k | £99.7k | £99.7k | −£344k |
| Profit (best available) | −£660k | £99.7k | £99.7k | −£344k |
| Employees (average) | 175 | 167 | 167 | 162 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | −8.1% | 1.2% | 1.2% | −4.4% |
| Gross margin | 23.4% | 25.8% | 25.8% | 25.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £46.5k | £49.9k | £49.9k | £48.6k |
| Profit per employee | −£3.8k | £597 | £597 | −£2.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲2.4% | — | ▼5.5% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▼445% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4.6% | — | ▼3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Net assets | — | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −4.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £48.6k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£2.1k
- 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
- ▼3%
- Now 162
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Palico Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Hertford Heath Limited75–100%
- Capital Pizza Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- P S R Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (5)
- Bramford LimitedFigures not disclosed
- D.P.K. Foods Ltd.Figures not disclosed
- DP Peterborough LimitedFigures not disclosed
- HH Bow LimitedFigures not disclosed
- HH Wapping 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 28 Dec 2025 (profit −£344k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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