Spon Global Ltd
Registered name: SPON GLOBAL LTD
Part of Spon Global Group Holdings Limited groupSpon Global Ltd made £14m revenue and a £667k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Spon Global Ltd’s revenue was £14m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £667k and 47 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale via mail order houses or via internet” and is based in Liverpool; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Liverpool, North West
- 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: “At 31 December 2025, the Company was owned by Platinum Bidco Limited, registered in England and Wales, Discovery Point, Evans Road, Liverpool, England, L24 9PB. The ultimate controlling party at that ”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 May 2022 | 31 May 2023 | 31 May 2024 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £11m | £18.8m | £11.8m | £14m |
| Cost of sales | — | £1.9m | £4.4m | £3.5m | £4.4m |
| Gross profit | — | £9.1m | £14.4m | £8.3m | £9.7m |
| Operating profit | — | £2.8m | £2.4m | £260k | −£910k |
| Profit before tax | — | £2.8m | £2.5m | £257k | −£932k |
| Profit after tax | — | £2.1m | £2m | £235k | −£667k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £2.1m | £2m | £235k | −£667k |
| Staff costs | — | £488k | £604k | £730k | £1.6m |
| Employees (average) | 14 | 19 | 30 | 45 | 47 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | — | 18.9% | 10.4% | 2% | −4.8% |
| Gross margin | — | 82.7% | 76.6% | 70.1% | 68.9% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £580k | £627k | £263k | £299k |
| Profit per employee | — | £109k | £65.2k | £5.2k | −£14.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲70.7% | — | — |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼5.7% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲35.7% | ▲57.9% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £2.3m | £4.6m | £1.7m | £2.8m | £980k |
| Net assets | £4.3m | £7.1m | £8.3m | £8.5m | £7.9m |
| Fixed assets | £24k | £38.6k | £133k | £337k | £320k |
| Current assets | £4.7m | £8.3m | £10.6m | £13.2m | £11.1m |
| Debtors | £752k | £0 | £382 | £166 | £3.6k |
| Deferred income | — | £0 | £99.7k | £102k | £900k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −4.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 68.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £299k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£14.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 6.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0%
- 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 £7.9m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £980k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 47
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £900k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £320k
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
- Spon Global Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Platinum Bidco Limited75–100%
- Spon Global 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 −£667k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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