Zarafa Holdco Limited
Registered name: ZARAFA HOLDCO LIMITED
Zarafa Holdco Limited made £3.4m revenue and £318k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Zarafa Holdco Limited’s revenue was £3.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £318k profit and 97 employees. The company is classified under “activities of other holding companies” and is based in Pickering.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Pickering, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 2 yrs · since 2024
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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 |
|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |
| Revenue (turnover) | £3.4m |
| Cost of sales | £1.9m |
| Gross profit | £1.5m |
| Operating profit | £485k |
| Profit before tax | £431k |
| Profit after tax | £318k |
| Profit (best available) | £318k |
| Employees (average) | 97 |
| Ratios | |
| Profit margin | 9.5% |
| Gross margin | 44.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £34.6k |
| Profit per employee | £3.3k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |
| Cash at bank | £3.9k |
| Net assets | £975k |
| Fixed assets | £2.6m |
| Deferred income | £6k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 44.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £34.6k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 76.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.2%
- 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 £975k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £3.9k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 97
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £6k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £2.6m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Subsidiaries (2)
- Zarafa Group LimitedRev. £218k · Profit £80.5k
- Zarafa Hungate LimitedFigures not disclosed
Minority corporate shareholders
- Robert Douglas Armitage, Janice Avril Armitage And John Feaster As Trustees Of The R D Armitage Discretionary Settlement 2025 (registered outside the UK register) 25–50%
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit £318k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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