Peoples Limited
Registered name: PEOPLES LIMITED
Peoples Limited made £278m revenue and £682k profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025.
Peoples Limited’s revenue fell 2% to £278m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £682k profit and 358 employees. The company is classified under “sale, maintenance and repair of motorcycles and related parts and accessories”; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Scotland
- Age
- 44 yrs · since 1982
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit & loss | Profit & loss | Profit & loss |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £307m | £283m | £278m |
| Cost of sales | −£293m | −£273m | −£270m |
| Gross profit | £13.3m | £10.5m | £7.4m |
| Operating profit | £7m | £4.1m | £772k |
| Profit before tax | £7.3m | £4.6m | £1.1m |
| Profit after tax | £5.8m | £3.3m | £682k |
| Profit (best available) | £5.8m | £3.3m | £682k |
| Employees (average) | 356 | 354 | 358 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.9% | 1.1% | 0.3% |
| Gross margin | 4.3% | 3.7% | 2.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £862k | £801k | £776k |
| Profit per employee | £16.2k | £9.2k | £1.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼7.6% | ▼2.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼43.5% | ▼79.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼0.6% | ▲1.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 2.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £776k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.9k
- 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
- ▲1%
- Now 358
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Jul 2025 (profit £682k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026