Unitas Wholesale Limited
Registered name: UNITAS WHOLESALE LIMITED
Unitas Wholesale Limited made £12m revenue and £108k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Unitas Wholesale Limited’s revenue grew 6% to £12m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £108k profit and 65 employees. The company is classified under “agents involved in the sale of food, beverages and tobacco” and is based in Doncaster; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 8 yrs · since 2018
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.5m | £11.5m | £11.3m | £12m |
| Cost of sales | £9.7m | £8.9m | £8.7m | £9.5m |
| Gross profit | £1.8m | £2.6m | £2.5m | £2.5m |
| Operating profit | £381k | £394k | −£231k | −£225k |
| Profit before tax | £162k | £418k | £191k | £194k |
| Profit after tax | £231k | £391k | £180k | £108k |
| Profit (best available) | £231k | £391k | £180k | £108k |
| Staff costs | £3.3m | £3.6m | £4m | £3.9m |
| Employees (average) | 52 | 50 | 52 | 65 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2% | 3.4% | 1.6% | 0.9% |
| Gross margin | 15.5% | 22.6% | 22.5% | 20.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £222k | £231k | £217k | £184k |
| Profit per employee | £4.4k | £7.8k | £3.5k | £1.7k |
| Cash conversion | 458.2% | 442.5% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲0.2% | ▼2.4% | ▲6.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲69.3% | ▼54% | ▼39.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼3.9% | ▲4% | ▲25% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £13.2m | £11.1m | £14m | £6.8m |
| Net assets | £6.3m | £6.5m | £6.5m | £6.4m |
| Fixed assets | £1.3m | £1.3m | £1.4m | £1.6m |
| Current assets | £28.7m | £36.3m | £30.9m | £20.4m |
| Debtors | £12.2m | £22.5m | £13.8m | £10.4m |
| Deferred income | £5m | £4.9m | £4.7m | £4m |
| Cash from operations | £1.7m | £1.7m | −£2.9m | £6.9m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £184k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 13.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 33.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 86.7%
- 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
- ▼3%
- Now £6.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▼52%
- Now £6.8m
- Headcount
- ▲25%
- Now 65
- Deferred income
- ▼13%
- Now £4m
- Fixed assets
- ▲14%
- Now £1.6m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £108k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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