Butcher and Barlow LLP
Registered name: BUTCHER AND BARLOW LLP
Butcher and Barlow LLP made £12.3m revenue and £4.9m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Butcher and Barlow LLP’s revenue grew 25% to £12.3m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £4.9m profit and 144 employees. The company is based in Bury; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bury, North West
- Age
- 17 yrs · since 2009
- Type
- Limited Liability Partnership
Partnership. Profit is shown before the partners' own pay, so margins aren't comparable with a limited company. 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 | 30 Apr 2022 | 30 Apr 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £10.7m | £9.9m | £12.3m |
| Cost of sales | — | £4m | £4.3m | £5.3m |
| Gross profit | — | £6.6m | £5.6m | £7m |
| Operating profit | — | £3.9m | £3m | £3.5m |
| Profit after tax | — | £4.3m | £4m | £4.9m |
| Profit (best available) | — | £4.3m | £4m | £4.9m |
| Staff costs | — | £3.8m | £4m | — |
| Employees (average) | 118 | 170 | 133 | 144 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | 40% | 40.5% | 39.8% |
| Gross margin | — | 62.3% | 56.4% | 57.2% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £62.7k | £74.3k | £85.5k |
| Profit per employee | — | £25.1k | £30.1k | £34k |
| Cash conversion | — | −108.3% | −88.1% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▼7.2% | ▲24.6% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼6% | ▲22.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲44.1% | ▼21.8% | ▲8.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.1m | £1.8m | £1.7m | — |
| Net assets | — | — | — | — |
| Fixed assets | £69.8k | £94k | £111k | — |
| Current assets | £4.5m | £5.2m | £5.5m | — |
| Debtors | £1.2m | £1.3m | £1.4m | — |
| Deferred income | — | £310k | £347k | — |
| Cash from operations | — | −£4.3m | −£2.7m | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 39.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 57.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £85.5k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £34k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- 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 —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲8%
- Now 144
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £4.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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