Pier Amusements Felixstowe Ltd
Registered name: PIER AMUSEMENTS FELIXSTOWE LTD
Part of Pier Amusements Group Ltd groupPier Amusements Felixstowe Ltd made £4.5m revenue and £756k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Pier Amusements Felixstowe Ltd’s revenue grew 2% to £4.5m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £756k profit and 69 employees. The company is classified under “other amusement and recreation activities” and is based in Felixstowe; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Felixstowe, East of England
- Age
- 59 yrs · since 1967
- 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 is controlled by Family Amusements Limited, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £4.2m | £4.4m | £4.5m |
| Cost of sales | £1.4m | £1.4m | £1.4m |
| Gross profit | £2.9m | £3m | £3.2m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £1.1m | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | £981k | £1m | £1m |
| Profit after tax | £796k | £753k | £756k |
| Profit (best available) | £796k | £753k | £756k |
| Staff costs | £1.2m | £1.3m | £1.5m |
| Employees (average) | 68 | 62 | 69 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 18.8% | 17% | 16.7% |
| Gross margin | 67.7% | 68.8% | 70.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £62.1k | £71.5k | £65.7k |
| Profit per employee | £11.7k | £12.1k | £11k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲4.8% | ▲2.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼5.4% | ▲0.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼8.8% | ▲11.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £288k | £304k | £291k |
| Net assets | £5m | £5.8m | £6.5m |
| Fixed assets | £9.1m | £9.1m | £9.1m |
| Current assets | £407k | £449k | £398k |
| Debtors | £38.1k | £49k | £37.1k |
| Deferred income | £66.5k | £79.3k | £89.5k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 16.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 70.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £65.7k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 201.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- 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
- ▲13%
- Now £6.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼4%
- Now £291k
- Headcount
- ▲11%
- Now 69
- Deferred income
- ▲13%
- Now £89.5k
- Fixed assets
- ▼0%
- Now £9.1m
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
- Pier Amusements Group Ltd (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Pier Amusements Felixstowe Ltdthis 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 £756k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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