Balfour Winery LLP
Registered name: BALFOUR WINERY LLP
Part of Balfour Hospitality Limited groupBalfour Winery LLP made £7.5m revenue and £523k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Balfour Winery LLP’s revenue grew 20% to £7.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £523k profit and 108 employees. The company is based in Staplehurst; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Staplehurst, South East
- Age
- 13 yrs · since 2013
- 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: “The parent company of Balfour Winery LLP is Balfour Hospitality Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, and its registered office is Balfour Winery, Five Oak Lane, Staplehurst, Kent, Unite”
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 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £4.1m | £4.4m | £5m | £6.3m | £7.5m |
| Cost of sales | £2.6m | £1.7m | £1.6m | £2.6m | £2.8m |
| Gross profit | £1.5m | £2.7m | £3.4m | £3.7m | £4.8m |
| Operating profit | −£274k | £222k | £272k | −£44.5k | £780k |
| Profit after tax | −£303k | £154k | £31.5k | −£334k | £523k |
| Profit (best available) | −£303k | £154k | £31.5k | −£334k | £523k |
| Employees (average) | 61 | 67 | 73 | 92 | 108 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | −7.4% | 3.5% | 0.6% | −5.3% | 6.9% |
| Gross margin | 35.6% | 61.7% | 67.8% | 59% | 63.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £66.8k | £65.3k | £68.3k | £68.2k | £69.9k |
| Profit per employee | −£5k | £2.3k | £431 | −£3.6k | £4.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲7.4% | ▲14% | ▲25.8% | ▲20.3% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼79.5% | ▼1160% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲9.8% | ▲9% | ▲26% | ▲17.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Net assets | — | — | — | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 63.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £69.9k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.8k
- 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
- ▲17%
- Now 108
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Balfour Hospitality Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Balfour Winery LLPthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (4)
- Balfour at Bow LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hush Heath Hospitality (Kent) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Goudhurst Pub Company LtdFigures not disclosed
- The Tickled Trout Pub LtdFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £523k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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