Boys & Boden, Limited
Registered name: BOYS & BODEN, LIMITED
Part of Boys and Boden Holdings Limited groupBoys & Boden, Limited made £46.4m revenue and £1.1m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Boys & Boden, Limited’s revenue fell 6% to £46.4m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £1.1m profit and 267 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Powys; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Powys, West Midlands
- Age
- 100 yrs · since 1926
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £50.2m | £50.9m | £49.4m | £46.4m |
| Cost of sales | £33.7m | £35.3m | £34.5m | £32.4m |
| Gross profit | £16.4m | £15.6m | £14.9m | £14m |
| Operating profit | £5.5m | £2.6m | £2.2m | £2.1m |
| Profit before tax | £5.2m | £2m | £1.2m | £1.3m |
| Profit after tax | £4m | £1.6m | £888k | £1.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £4m | £1.6m | £888k | £1.1m |
| Staff costs | £8.4m | £9.4m | £9.5m | £9.7m |
| Employees (average) | 269 | 272 | 269 | 267 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 8% | 3.1% | 1.8% | 2.3% |
| Gross margin | 32.8% | 30.6% | 30.2% | 30.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £187k | £187k | £184k | £174k |
| Profit per employee | £14.9k | £5.8k | £3.3k | £4k |
| Cash conversion | 67.2% | 125.7% | 160.5% | 142.5% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲1.5% | ▼3% | ▼6.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼60.4% | ▼43.9% | ▲19.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.1% | ▼1.1% | ▼0.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £507k | £14.6k | £8.2k | £11.2k |
| Net assets | £22.1m | £23.6m | £24.5m | £25.5m |
| Fixed assets | £26.8m | £29.3m | £29.2m | £29.8m |
| Current assets | £20.3m | £21m | £19.3m | £18.6m |
| Debtors | £5m | £5.2m | £4.6m | £4.6m |
| Deferred income | £1.4m | £1.8m | £1.7m | £1.7m |
| Cash from operations | £3.7m | £3.3m | £3.5m | £3m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 30.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £174k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 142.5%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 64.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.9%
- 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 £25.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲37%
- Now £11.2k
- Headcount
- ▼1%
- Now 267
- Deferred income
- ▼0%
- Now £1.7m
- Fixed assets
- ▲2%
- Now £29.8m
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
- Boys and Boden Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Boys & Boden, 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 Mar 2025 (profit £1.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 11 Oct 2026
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