Hometime Group Limited
Registered name: HOMETIME GROUP LIMITED
Part of Donnybrook (Holdings) Limited groupHometime Group Limited made £21.3m revenue and a £196k loss in the year to 27 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Hometime Group Limited’s revenue grew 3% to £21.3m in the year to 27 Apr 2025, with a loss of £196k and 88 employees. The company is classified under “retail of furniture, lighting, and similar (not musical instruments or scores) in specialised store” and is based in Belfast; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Age
- 13 yrs · since 2013
- 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”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 28 Apr 2024 | 27 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £20.7m | £21.3m |
| Cost of sales | £10.2m | £11.1m |
| Gross profit | £10.5m | £10.2m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | −£98k |
| Profit before tax | £1.3m | −£99k |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | −£196k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | −£196k |
| Staff costs | £4m | £4.7m |
| Employees (average) | 80 | 88 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 5.3% | −0.9% |
| Gross margin | 50.6% | 48% |
| Revenue per employee | £259k | £242k |
| Profit per employee | £13.8k | −£2.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲2.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼117.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲10% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £1.4m | £872k |
| Net assets | £3m | £2.8m |
| Fixed assets | £2.2m | £2.6m |
| Current assets | £6.3m | £7.4m |
| Debtors | £325k | £366k |
| Deferred income | £2m | £2.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 48%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £242k
- 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
- 12.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 11%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.7%
- 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
- ▼6%
- Now £2.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼38%
- Now £872k
- Headcount
- ▲10%
- Now 88
- Deferred income
- ▲19%
- Now £2.3m
- Fixed assets
- ▲21%
- 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
Ownership chain
- Donnybrook (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Hometime Group Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (3)
- Bright Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Donnybrook Retail LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Mytime Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 27 Apr 2025 (profit −£196k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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