Ichiba UK Limited
Registered name: ICHIBA UK LIMITED
Part of Aoyama Investment Brain Limited groupIchiba UK Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Dec 2024 show net assets of -£1m and 65 employees.
Ichiba UK Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 showed net assets of −£1m and 65 employees. The company is classified under “licensed restaurants” and is based in Wembley; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wembley, 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.
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Ichiba UK Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 65
- Net assets
- −£1m
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £4m | £5.4m | — | — |
| Cost of sales | £1.9m | £2.6m | — | — |
| Gross profit | £2.1m | £2.8m | — | — |
| Operating profit | −£645k | −£756k | — | — |
| Profit before tax | −£691k | −£821k | — | — |
| Profit after tax | £473k | −£560k | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | £473k | −£560k | — | — |
| Staff costs | £947k | £1.2m | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 43 | 56 | 73 | 65 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 11.8% | −10.4% | — | — |
| Gross margin | 52.4% | 52.4% | — | — |
| Revenue per employee | £93k | £95.7k | — | — |
| Profit per employee | £11k | −£10k | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲34% | — | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▼218.3% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲30.2% | ▲30.4% | ▼11% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £406k | £324k | £60.3k | £102k |
| Net assets | £2.1m | £1.6m | £100 | −£1m |
| Fixed assets | £3.8m | £3.2m | £2.6m | £2.2m |
| Current assets | £2.1m | £2.3m | £1.4m | £1.1m |
| Debtors | £0 | £6.2k | £136k | £77.7k |
| Deferred income | £355k | £292k | £172k | £1.8m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
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
- ▼1012693%
- Now −£1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲70%
- Now £102k
- Headcount
- ▼11%
- Now 65
- Deferred income
- ▲973%
- Now £1.8m
- Fixed assets
- ▼16%
- Now £2.2m
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
- Aoyama Investment Brain Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Japan Centre Retail Ltd50–75%
- Ichiba UK Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Atariya Foods Retail (UK) LimitedFigures 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 Dec 2024, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 12 Oct 2026
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