True North Brew Co Ltd
Registered name: TRUE NORTH BREW CO LTD
True North Brew Co Ltd made £13.1m revenue and a £46.8k loss in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
True North Brew Co Ltd’s revenue was £13.1m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with a loss of £46.8k and 282 employees. The company is classified under “distilling, rectifying and blending of spirits” and is based in Sheffield; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber
- 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. From the filing: “The controlling party is K S Yeardley.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £14.7m | £13.1m |
| Cost of sales | — | £11m | £9.4m |
| Gross profit | — | £3.7m | £3.7m |
| Operating profit | — | −£590k | −£27.6k |
| Profit before tax | — | −£610k | −£46.8k |
| Profit after tax | — | −£610k | −£46.8k |
| Profit (best available) | — | −£610k | −£46.8k |
| Staff costs | — | £7m | £5.9m |
| Employees (average) | 1 | 291 | 282 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | −4.1% | −0.4% |
| Gross margin | — | 25.2% | 28.3% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £50.6k | £46.4k |
| Profit per employee | — | −£2.1k | −£166 |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2 | £255k | £161k |
| Net assets | £2 | −£610k | −£657k |
| Fixed assets | £0 | £437k | — |
| Current assets | £2 | £733k | £673k |
| Debtors | £0 | £33.5k | £32.5k |
| Deferred income | £0 | £90.1k | £97k |
| Cash from operations | — | −£708k | −£185k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 28.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £46.4k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£166
- 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
- 0.7%
- 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
- —
- Now −£657k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £161k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 282
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £97k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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 30 Sep 2025 (profit −£46.8k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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