Escape Hunt Group Limited
Registered name: ESCAPE HUNT GROUP LIMITED
Part of XP Factory PLC groupEscape Hunt Group Limited made £15.2m revenue and £715k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2024.
Escape Hunt Group Limited’s revenue was £15.2m in the year to 31 Mar 2024, with £715k profit and 302 employees. The company is classified under “other service activities” and is based in London; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 9 yrs · since 2017
- 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: “XP Factory plc”
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 Mar 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £8.5m | £15.2m |
| Cost of sales | £3.9m | £6.8m |
| Gross profit | £4.5m | £8.4m |
| Operating profit | −£1.4m | £726k |
| Profit before tax | −£1.4m | £715k |
| Profit after tax | −£1.4m | £715k |
| Profit (best available) | −£1.4m | £715k |
| Employees (average) | 241 | 302 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −16.6% | 4.7% |
| Gross margin | 53.6% | 55% |
| Revenue per employee | £35.2k | £50.3k |
| Profit per employee | −£5.8k | £2.4k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £641k | £492k |
| Net assets | −£10.3m | £2.4m |
| Fixed assets | £4.1m | £4.8m |
| Current assets | £9.3m | £9.6m |
| Debtors | £18.2k | £258k |
| Deferred income | £2.3m | £2.7m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 55%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £50.3k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 31.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 18%
- 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 £2.4m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £492k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 302
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £2.7m
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £4.8m
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
- XP Factory PLCultimate parent75–100%
- Escape Hunt Group Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (5)
- Escape Hunt Franchises LtdFigures not disclosed
- Escape Hunt Innovations LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Escape Hunt IP LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Escape Hunt LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Escape Hunt USA Franchises LtdFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2024 (profit £715k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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