Red Havas Limited
Registered name: RED HAVAS LIMITED
Part of Havas N.V. groupRed Havas Limited made £5.9m revenue and £216k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Red Havas Limited’s revenue fell 18% to £5.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £216k profit and 25 employees. The company is classified under “advertising agencies” and is based in Maidstone; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Maidstone, South East
- Age
- 7 yrs · since 2019
- 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
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
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) | £7.2m | £7.1m | £5.9m |
| Cost of sales | −£2.4m | −£2.8m | −£1.8m |
| Gross profit | £4.8m | £4.3m | £4m |
| Operating profit | £578k | £244k | £286k |
| Profit before tax | £577k | £238k | £291k |
| Profit after tax | £435k | £172k | £216k |
| Profit (best available) | £435k | £172k | £216k |
| Employees (average) | 28 | 29 | 25 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 6.1% | 2.4% | 3.7% |
| Gross margin | 66.7% | 61% | 68.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £256k | £246k | £234k |
| Profit per employee | £15.5k | £5.9k | £8.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼0.8% | ▼17.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼60.5% | ▲25.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.6% | ▼13.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 68.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £234k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £8.6k
- 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
- ▼14%
- Now 25
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Havas N.V. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Havas UK Limited75–100%
- Red Havas Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (31)
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- Enter the Wilderness LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ewdb LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Gate One LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Havas Consumer Health LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Havas Ehs Discovery LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Havas Financial Communications LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Havas Forward Media UK LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Havas Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Havas Market LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Havas Market UK LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Havas People LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Havas Programmatic Hub LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Havas Shared Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Havas So Group LtdFigures not disclosed
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- One Green Bean London LimitedFigures not disclosed
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From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £216k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 12 Oct 2026
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