Pearce Seeds LLP
Registered name: PEARCE SEEDS LLP
Pearce Seeds LLP made £21.8m revenue and £370k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Pearce Seeds LLP’s revenue fell 2% to £21.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £370k profit and 50 employees. The company is based in Sherborne; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Sherborne, South West
- Age
- 13 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: “Pearce Seeds LLP is a subsidiary company of Pearce Seeds (Holdings) Limited, and consolidated accounts are available from the registered office:”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £22.1m | £22.2m | £21.8m |
| Cost of sales | £17.6m | £17.3m | £16.9m |
| Gross profit | £4.4m | £4.9m | £4.9m |
| Operating profit | £775k | £728k | £490k |
| Profit after tax | £543k | £539k | £370k |
| Profit (best available) | £543k | £539k | £370k |
| Employees (average) | 41 | 45 | 50 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 2.5% | 2.4% | 1.7% |
| Gross margin | 20.1% | 21.9% | 22.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £538k | £493k | £436k |
| Profit per employee | £13.2k | £12k | £7.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲0.5% | ▼1.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼0.6% | ▼31.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲9.8% | ▲11.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £436k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £7.4k
- 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
- ▲11%
- Now 50
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Minority corporate shareholders
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £370k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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