Color Brands UK LimitedDissolved
Registered name: COLOR BRANDS UK LIMITED
Color Brands UK Limited made £18.4m revenue and £666k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2023. read from filing text
Color Brands UK Limited’s revenue fell 23% to £18.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2023, with £666k profit and 5 employees. We hold 2 years of its filed accounts. It is no longer on the Companies House register.
- Status
- Dissolved
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £24m | £18.4m |
| Cost of sales | £21.9m | £14.4m |
| Gross profit | £2m | £3.9m |
| Operating profit | −£1.2m | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | −£1.3m | £883k |
| Profit after tax | −£1m | £666k |
| Profit (best available) | −£1m | £666k |
| Staff costs | £355k | £182k |
| Employees (average) | 7 | 5 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −4.3% | 3.6% |
| Gross margin | 8.4% | 21.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £3.4m | £3.7m |
| Profit per employee | −£148k | £133k |
| Cash conversion | — | 0.5% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼23.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼28.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £149k | £191k |
| Net assets | −£455k | £211k |
| Current assets | £6.1m | £2.2m |
| Debtors | £1m | £911k |
| Deferred income | £0 | £147k |
| Cash from operations | £326k | £5.8k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 21.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £3.7m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £133k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 0.5%
- 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
- 0.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 5%
- 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 £211k
- Cash at bank
- ▲29%
- Now £191k
- Headcount
- ▼29%
- Now 5
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £147k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2023 (profit £666k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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