Monty Trading Limited
Registered name: MONTY TRADING LIMITED
Part of Hontan Holdings Limited groupMonty Trading Limited made £26.7m revenue and a £571k loss in the year to 31 Jul 2025.
Monty Trading Limited’s revenue grew 4% to £26.7m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with a loss of £571k and 82 employees. The company is classified under “retail of furniture, lighting, and similar (not musical instruments or scores) in specialised store” and is based in Chippenham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Chippenham, South West
- 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 | 31 Jul 2022 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £15.9m | £21.2m | £25.6m | £26.7m |
| Cost of sales | £10.7m | £16.1m | £18.1m | −£18.4m |
| Gross profit | £5.2m | £5.1m | £7.5m | £8.2m |
| Operating profit | £2.4m | −£1.1m | £530k | −£375k |
| Profit before tax | £2.4m | −£1.2m | £445k | −£613k |
| Profit after tax | £1.8m | −£1m | £612k | −£571k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.8m | −£1m | £612k | −£571k |
| Staff costs | £1.3m | £1.9m | £2.6m | — |
| Employees (average) | 34 | 58 | 74 | 82 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 11.2% | −4.9% | 2.4% | −2.1% |
| Gross margin | 32.8% | 23.9% | 29.4% | 30.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £469k | £366k | £346k | £325k |
| Profit per employee | £52.3k | −£17.8k | £8.3k | −£7k |
| Cash conversion | 183.4% | — | 130.1% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲33.2% | ▲20.6% | ▲4.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼157.9% | — | ▼193.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲70.6% | ▲27.6% | ▲10.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £458k | £340k | £160k | — |
| Net assets | £3.5m | £2.4m | £2.7m | — |
| Fixed assets | £3.5m | £3.3m | £2.7m | — |
| Current assets | £6.3m | £5.9m | £8.4m | — |
| Debtors | £1m | £1.2m | £1.1m | — |
| Deferred income | £328k | £434k | £548k | — |
| Cash from operations | £4.4m | −£963k | £689k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −2.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 30.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £325k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£7k
- 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
- ▲11%
- Now 82
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Hontan Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Monty Trading 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 accounts for the year to 31 Jul 2025 (profit −£571k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 14 Oct 2026
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