Professional Beauty Systems Limited
Registered name: PROFESSIONAL BEAUTY SYSTEMS LIMITED
Professional Beauty Systems Limited made £41.5m revenue and £1.7m profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Professional Beauty Systems Limited’s revenue grew 8% to £41.5m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £1.7m profit and 290 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of perfumes and toilet preparations” and is based in Renfrew; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Renfrew, Scotland
- Age
- 43 yrs · since 1982
- Type
- Private Limited Company
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 company was under the control of the holders of the ordinary share capital in the ultimate parent company, Professional Beauty Systems (Holdings) Limited, throughout the current and prior period. ”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 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 |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £37m | £36.9m | £38.4m | £41.5m |
| Cost of sales | £23.9m | £23.9m | £24.6m | £28.3m |
| Gross profit | £13.1m | £13.1m | £13.7m | £13.2m |
| Operating profit | £3.4m | £3.9m | £3.7m | £2m |
| Profit before tax | £3.5m | £4m | £3.8m | £2m |
| Profit after tax | £2.3m | £3.2m | £3m | £1.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.3m | £3.2m | £3m | £1.7m |
| Staff costs | £12.9m | £12.2m | £13.5m | £15.4m |
| Employees (average) | 284 | 272 | 277 | 290 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 6.3% | 8.6% | 7.9% | 4.1% |
| Gross margin | 35.4% | 35.4% | 35.8% | 31.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £130k | £136k | £139k | £143k |
| Profit per employee | £8.2k | £11.7k | £11k | £5.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼0% | ▲3.9% | ▲8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲35.6% | ▼4.4% | ▼44% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4.2% | ▲1.8% | ▲4.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £9.1m | £9.2m | £8.9m | £3.7m |
| Net assets | £34.3m | £37.5m | £40.5m | £42.2m |
| Fixed assets | £12.3m | £14.1m | £14.6m | £14.6m |
| Current assets | £30.5m | £32.9m | £36.4m | £37.4m |
| Debtors | £8m | £8.5m | £9.7m | £8.8m |
| Deferred income | £717k | £894k | £1.4m | £1.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £143k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 35.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 21.1%
- 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
- ▲4%
- Now £42.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼59%
- Now £3.7m
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 290
- Deferred income
- ▼7%
- Now £1.3m
- Fixed assets
- ▲0%
- Now £14.6m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 (profit £1.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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