Dynamic Retail Ltd
Registered name: DYNAMIC RETAIL LTD
Part of C.J. Lang & Son Limited groupDynamic Retail Ltd made £13.8m revenue and a £247k loss in the year to 27 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Dynamic Retail Ltd’s revenue was £13.8m in the year to 27 Apr 2025, with a loss of £247k and 0 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating” and is based in Dundee; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active - Proposal to Strike off
- Location
- Dundee, Scotland
- Age
- 28 yrs · since 1997
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. 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”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 28 Feb 2022 | 28 Feb 2023 | 28 Apr 2024 | 27 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.1m | £14.7m | £18.3m | £13.8m |
| Cost of sales | £10.1m | £10.9m | £13.6m | £11m |
| Gross profit | £3m | £3.8m | £4.7m | £2.9m |
| Operating profit | £834k | £1m | −£69.1k | −£247k |
| Profit before tax | £809k | −£1.3m | −£69.6k | −£247k |
| Profit after tax | £649k | −£1.5m | −£256k | −£247k |
| Profit (best available) | £649k | −£1.5m | −£256k | −£247k |
| Staff costs | £1.5m | £1.7m | £2.4m | £0 |
| Employees (average) | 127 | 141 | 148 | 0 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5% | −10.4% | −1.4% | −1.8% |
| Gross margin | 23.2% | 25.8% | 25.7% | 20.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £103k | £104k | £124k | — |
| Profit per employee | £5.1k | −£10.8k | −£1.7k | — |
| Cash conversion | −135.7% | 40.4% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲12% | — | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▼334.8% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲11% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2m | £911k | £414k | £0 |
| Net assets | £1.8m | £255k | −£417 | £2 |
| Fixed assets | £1.2m | £1.3m | £818k | £0 |
| Current assets | £2.8m | £1.5m | £1.1m | £2 |
| Debtors | £10.2k | £5.3k | £1.3k | £0 |
| Deferred income | — | — | £214k | £0 |
| Cash from operations | −£1.1m | £416k | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −1.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0%
- 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 £2
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £0
- Headcount
- —
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £0
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £0
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- C.J. Lang & Son Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Scotfresh Group Ltd.75–100%
- Dynamic Retail Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Scotfresh LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 27 Apr 2025 (profit −£247k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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