World Wide Shoes LLP
Registered name: WORLD WIDE SHOES LLP
World Wide Shoes LLP made £9.8m revenue and a £833k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
World Wide Shoes LLP’s revenue fell 39% to £9.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with a loss of £833k and 37 employees. The company is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 14 yrs · since 2012
- 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.
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: “World Wide Shoes Holdings LLC, a company incorporated in the United States of America, is the immediate parent company.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | £15.9m | £9.8m |
| Cost of sales | — | — | £9.8m | £6.6m |
| Gross profit | — | — | £6.1m | £3.1m |
| Operating profit | — | — | £944k | −£248k |
| Profit after tax | — | — | £611k | −£833k |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | £611k | −£833k |
| Employees (average) | 29 | 37 | 40 | 37 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | 3.8% | −8.5% |
| Gross margin | — | — | 38.6% | 32% |
| Revenue per employee | — | — | £398k | £264k |
| Profit per employee | — | — | £15.3k | −£22.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | — | ▼38.6% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▼236.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲27.6% | ▲8.1% | ▼7.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Net assets | — | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −8.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 32%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £264k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£22.5k
- 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 37
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Minority corporate shareholders
- World Wide Shoes Holdings Llc (registered outside the UK register)
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit −£833k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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