Consumer Brands Limited
Registered name: CONSUMER BRANDS LIMITED
Part of NLC Group of Companies Limited groupConsumer Brands Limited made £30.1m revenue and £378k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Consumer Brands Limited’s revenue grew 1% to £30.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £378k profit and 35 employees. The company is classified under “other service activities” and is based in Poole; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Poole, South West
- Age
- 3 yrs · since 2023
- 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. From the filing: “The Company's immediate parent is Helix Brands Ltd, which holds 70% of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company. The ultimate parent undertaking and controlling party is NLC Group of Companies”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £29.6m | £30.1m |
| Cost of sales | £19.7m | £20.6m |
| Gross profit | £9.9m | £9.5m |
| Operating profit | £2.1m | £708k |
| Profit before tax | £1.9m | £517k |
| Profit after tax | £1.4m | £378k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.4m | £378k |
| Staff costs | £1.4m | £1.8m |
| Employees (average) | 29 | 35 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 4.7% | 1.3% |
| Gross margin | 33.6% | 31.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £1m | £859k |
| Profit per employee | £47.7k | £10.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲1.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼72.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲20.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £34.4k | £407k |
| Net assets | £1.5m | £1.1m |
| Fixed assets | £152k | £630k |
| Current assets | £15.7m | £19.3m |
| Debtors | £8.1m | £8.3m |
| Deferred income | £2.1m | £3.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £859k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 10.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 27.5%
- 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
- ▼31%
- Now £1.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲1082%
- Now £407k
- Headcount
- ▲21%
- Now 35
- Deferred income
- ▲52%
- Now £3.2m
- Fixed assets
- ▲314%
- Now £630k
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
- NLC Group of Companies Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Poole Lighting Limited75–100%
- Interiors 1900 Ltd.50–75%
- Consumer Brands Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £378k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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