Sarah Plumb Ltd
Registered name: SARAH PLUMB LTD
Sarah Plumb Ltd made £22.2m revenue and a £518k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Sarah Plumb Ltd’s revenue was £22.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £518k and 232 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of soft furnishings” and is based in Preston.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Preston, North West
- Age
- 2 yrs · since 2024
- 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: “There is no one controlling individual controlling party.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |
| Revenue (turnover) | £22.2m |
| Cost of sales | £15.9m |
| Gross profit | £6.3m |
| Operating profit | −£398k |
| Profit before tax | −£422k |
| Profit after tax | −£518k |
| Profit (best available) | −£518k |
| Staff costs | £8.7m |
| Employees (average) | 232 |
| Ratios | |
| Profit margin | −2.3% |
| Gross margin | 28.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £95.6k |
| Profit per employee | −£2.2k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |
| Cash at bank | £84.1k |
| Net assets | £107k |
| Fixed assets | £416k |
| Current assets | £2.7m |
| Debtors | £327k |
| Deferred income | £1.1m |
| Cash from operations | £348k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −2.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 28.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £95.6k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£2.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- 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
- —
- Now £107k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £84.1k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 232
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £1.1m
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £416k
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 Dec 2025 (profit −£518k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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