Tentbox Limited
Registered name: TENTBOX LIMITED
Part of Flumen Holdings Ltd groupTentbox Limited made £28.1m revenue and £2.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Tentbox Limited’s revenue grew 76% to £28.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2.1m profit and 60 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale of sports goods, fishing gear, camping goods, boats and bicycles” and is based in Southampton; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Southampton, South East
- Age
- 10 yrs · since 2016
- 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 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | £16m | £28.1m |
| Cost of sales | — | — | £9.5m | £16.7m |
| Gross profit | — | — | £6.5m | £11.4m |
| Operating profit | — | — | £2.4m | £3.1m |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £2.3m | £2.8m |
| Profit after tax | — | — | £1.7m | £2.1m |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | £1.7m | £2.1m |
| Staff costs | — | — | £2m | £3.4m |
| Employees (average) | 13 | 18 | 34 | 60 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | 10.9% | 7.4% |
| Gross margin | — | — | 40.8% | 40.7% |
| Revenue per employee | — | — | £470k | £468k |
| Profit per employee | — | — | £51.3k | £34.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | — | ▲75.5% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▲18.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲38.5% | ▲88.9% | ▲76.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £359k | £1.2m | £1m | £1.9m |
| Net assets | £673k | £2.5m | £4.2m | £3.8m |
| Fixed assets | £113k | £189k | £540k | £1.1m |
| Current assets | £1.7m | £4.2m | £8.2m | £13.7m |
| Debtors | £30.5k | £89k | £162k | £98.3k |
| Deferred income | — | — | £1.1m | £244k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 40.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £468k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £34.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- 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
- ▼10%
- Now £3.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▲79%
- Now £1.9m
- Headcount
- ▲76%
- Now 60
- Deferred income
- ▼78%
- Now £244k
- Fixed assets
- ▲106%
- Now £1.1m
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
- Flumen Holdings Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Tentbox Holdings Limited75–100%
- Tentbox 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 FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £2.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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