F&F Stores Ltd
Registered name: F&F STORES LTD
Part of R&a Retail Hub Co Ltd groupF&F Stores Ltd made £120m revenue and £5.9m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
F&F Stores Ltd’s revenue was £120m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £5.9m profit and 107 employees. The company is classified under “other retail sale not in stores, stalls or markets” and is based in Milton Keynes; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Milton Keynes, 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 | 31 Jul 2022 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £92.2m | £95.7m | £160m | £120m |
| Cost of sales | £70.3m | £74.4m | £137m | £104m |
| Gross profit | £21.9m | £21.3m | £22.5m | £16m |
| Operating profit | £8.7m | £5.4m | £12.7m | £8.7m |
| Profit before tax | £8.4m | £5.3m | £11.4m | £7.9m |
| Profit after tax | £6.8m | £4.2m | £8.5m | £5.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £6.8m | £4.2m | £8.5m | £5.9m |
| Staff costs | £2.3m | £2.8m | £5.2m | £4.1m |
| Employees (average) | 80 | 108 | 91 | 107 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 7.4% | 4.4% | 5.3% | 4.9% |
| Gross margin | 23.7% | 22.2% | 14.1% | 13.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £1.2m | £886k | £1.8m | £1.1m |
| Profit per employee | £85.3k | £38.7k | £93.6k | £54.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3.8% | — | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▼38.8% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲35% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £562k | £1.3m | £3.5m | £7.3m |
| Net assets | £12.2m | £15.4m | £15m | £20.2m |
| Fixed assets | £467k | £572k | £339k | £1.4m |
| Current assets | £23.9m | £24.8m | £36.6m | £47.4m |
| Debtors | £146k | £469k | £3.2m | £2m |
| Deferred income | £64.6k | £131k | £569k | £880k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.1m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £54.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.2%
- 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
- 1.7%
- 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 £20.2m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £7.3m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 107
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £880k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £1.4m
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
- R&a Retail Hub Co Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- F&F Stores Holdings Limited75–100%
- F&F Stores Ltdthis 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 Dec 2025 (profit £5.9m), 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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