Gold Key Media Limited
Registered name: GOLD KEY MEDIA LIMITED
Part of HBVB groupGold Key Media Limited made £8.2m revenue and £305k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Gold Key Media Limited’s revenue grew 6% to £8.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £305k profit and 27 employees. The company is classified under “media representation services” and is based in Peterborough; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Peterborough
- Age
- 9 yrs · since 2017
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7.5m | £7.8m | £8.2m |
| Cost of sales | −£2.2m | −£2.3m | −£2.6m |
| Gross profit | £5.3m | £5.5m | £5.7m |
| Operating profit | £418k | £379k | £387k |
| Profit before tax | £415k | £366k | £410k |
| Profit after tax | £310k | £271k | £305k |
| Profit (best available) | £310k | £271k | £305k |
| Employees (average) | 22 | 25 | 27 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.2% | 3.5% | 3.7% |
| Gross margin | 70.9% | 70.5% | 68.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £339k | £311k | £304k |
| Profit per employee | £14.1k | £10.8k | £11.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲4.1% | ▲5.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼12.6% | ▲12.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲13.6% | ▲8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 68.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £304k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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 —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲8%
- Now 27
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- HBVBultimate parent75–100%
- Bauer Consumer Media Limited75–100%
- Frontline Limited75–100%
- Gold Key Media Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (3)
- Routes to Retail LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seymour Distribution LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seymour International LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £305k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 18 Oct 2026
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