Vine Meats Ltd
Registered name: VINE MEATS LTD
Vine Meats Ltd made £184m revenue and £3.8m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Vine Meats Ltd’s revenue grew 46% to £184m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £3.8m profit and 19 employees. The company is classified under “processing and preserving of meat” and is based in Sevenoaks; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Sevenoaks, South East
- Age
- 7 yrs · since 2019
- 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 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £126m | £184m |
| Cost of sales | £114m | £170m |
| Gross profit | £8.3m | £9.7m |
| Operating profit | £4.9m | £5m |
| Profit before tax | £5m | £5m |
| Profit after tax | £3.8m | £3.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.8m | £3.8m |
| Staff costs | £2.4m | £2.8m |
| Employees (average) | 15 | 19 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 3% | 2.1% |
| Gross margin | 6.6% | 5.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £8.4m | £9.7m |
| Profit per employee | £252k | £200k |
| Cash conversion | 128% | −112.5% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲46.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲0.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲26.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £648k | £1.2m |
| Net assets | £14.5m | £14m |
| Fixed assets | £101k | £144k |
| Current assets | £27.6m | £49.1m |
| Debtors | £18m | £28.7m |
| Deferred income | — | £1.3m |
| Cash from operations | £6.3m | −£5.7m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 5.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £9.7m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £200k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −112.5%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 15.6%
- 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 £14m
- Cash at bank
- ▲87%
- Now £1.2m
- Headcount
- ▲27%
- Now 19
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £1.3m
- Fixed assets
- ▲43%
- Now £144k
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 £3.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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