Frugi Limited
Registered name: FRUGI LIMITED
Part of Refined Brands Limited groupFrugi Limited made £12m revenue and £900k profit in the year to 26 Jan 2025.
Frugi Limited’s revenue grew 27% to £12m in the year to 26 Jan 2025, with £900k profit and 79 employees. The company is classified under “other retail sale not in stores, stalls or markets” and is based in ST. Columb; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- ST. Columb, South West
- 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 | 29 Jan 2023 | 28 Jan 2024 | 26 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £1.2m | £9.4m | £12m |
| Cost of sales | £707k | £4m | £6.2m |
| Gross profit | £451k | £5.4m | £5.8m |
| Operating profit | −£410k | £1.4m | £1.3m |
| Profit before tax | −£410k | £1.3m | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | −£421k | £986k | £900k |
| Profit (best available) | −£421k | £986k | £900k |
| Staff costs | £572k | £2.2m | £2.2m |
| Employees (average) | 16 | 71 | 79 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −36.4% | 10.5% | 7.5% |
| Gross margin | 38.9% | 57.8% | 48.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £72.3k | £132k | £152k |
| Profit per employee | −£26.3k | £13.9k | £11.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲712.4% | ▲27.4% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼8.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲343.8% | ▲11.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £824k | £1.2m | £205k |
| Net assets | −£432k | £554k | £1.5m |
| Fixed assets | £316k | £292k | £407k |
| Current assets | £3m | £4.7m | £6.8m |
| Debtors | £99.1k | £319k | £535k |
| Deferred income | £47.4k | £143k | £314k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 48.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £152k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 4.5%
- 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
- ▲163%
- Now £1.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼83%
- Now £205k
- Headcount
- ▲11%
- Now 79
- Deferred income
- ▲120%
- Now £314k
- Fixed assets
- ▲39%
- Now £407k
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
- Refined Brands Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Whitworth CS Holdings Ltd75–100%
- Frugi Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Celtic Sheepskin & Co Ltd.Rev. £14.1m · Profit £1.2m
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 26 Jan 2025 (profit £900k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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