Biomar Limited
Registered name: BIOMAR LIMITED
Part of Biomar Group A/S groupBiomar Limited made £168m revenue and £6.4m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Biomar Limited’s revenue fell 9% to £168m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £6.4m profit and 92 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of prepared feeds for farm animals” and is based in Grangemouth; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Grangemouth, Scotland
- Age
- 37 yrs · since 1989
- 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 ultimate parent undertaking is Aktieselskabet Schouw and Co, incorporated in Denmark.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 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 |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £151m | £180m | £184m | £168m |
| Cost of sales | £127m | £152m | £150m | £136m |
| Gross profit | £24.3m | £28.3m | £33.8m | £31.6m |
| Operating profit | £8.9m | £8.9m | £12.1m | £10m |
| Profit before tax | £8.2m | £8.3m | £10.6m | £9m |
| Profit after tax | £6m | £6.6m | £8.1m | £6.4m |
| Profit (best available) | £6m | £6.6m | £8.1m | £6.4m |
| Staff costs | — | £7.2m | £5.5m | £6m |
| Employees (average) | 97 | 99 | 87 | 92 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 4% | 3.6% | 4.4% | 3.8% |
| Gross margin | 16.1% | 15.7% | 18.4% | 18.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £1.6m | £1.8m | £2.1m | £1.8m |
| Profit per employee | £61.7k | £66.3k | £92.8k | £69.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲19.3% | ▲2% | ▼8.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲9.7% | ▲23% | ▼21% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2.1% | ▼12.1% | ▲5.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | — | £0 | £2.9m | £1k |
| Net assets | £32.9m | £36.4m | £38.6m | £34.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 18.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.8m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £69.3k
- 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
- ▼11%
- Now £34.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼100%
- Now £1k
- Headcount
- ▲6%
- Now 92
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Biomar Group A/S (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Biomar Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £6.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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