Silbury Marketing Limited
Registered name: SILBURY MARKETING LIMITED
Part of Kagome Co., Ltd. groupSilbury Marketing Limited made £104m revenue and £1.8m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Silbury Marketing Limited’s revenue was £104m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.8m profit and 40 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of dairy products, eggs and edible oils and fats” and is based in Banbury; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Banbury, South East
- Age
- 41 yrs · since 1985
- 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 Oct 2022 | 31 Oct 2023 | 31 Oct 2024 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit & lossread from filing text | Profit & loss | Profit & loss | Profit & loss | Profit & loss |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £78.5m | £99.7m | £99.2m | £99.2m | £104m |
| Cost of sales | £74.2m | £92.2m | £91.7m | £91.7m | £95.5m |
| Gross profit | £4.3m | £7.6m | £7.5m | £7.5m | £8.7m |
| Operating profit | — | £3.5m | £3.1m | £3.1m | £3.1m |
| Profit before tax | £1.6m | £3.5m | £5.5m | £5.5m | £2.6m |
| Profit after tax | £1.3m | £2.7m | £4.7m | £4.7m | £1.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.3m | £2.7m | £4.7m | £4.7m | £1.8m |
| Staff costs | — | £2.5m | £2.9m | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 30 | 34 | 38 | 38 | 40 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 1.7% | 2.7% | 4.8% | 4.8% | 1.8% |
| Gross margin | 5.4% | 7.6% | 7.5% | 7.5% | 8.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £2.6m | £2.9m | £2.6m | £2.6m | £2.6m |
| Profit per employee | £43.6k | £79.2k | £124k | £124k | £46.1k |
| Cash conversion | — | −86.4% | −134.8% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲27.1% | ▼0.5% | — | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▲105.5% | ▲75.2% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲13.3% | ▲11.8% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £2.4m | £54 | £659k | — | — |
| Net assets | — | £4.1m | £7.1m | — | — |
| Fixed assets | £1.8m | £1.8m | £4.5m | — | — |
| Current assets | £22.5m | £15.9m | £16.8m | — | — |
| Debtors | £16m | £12m | £13.5m | — | — |
| Deferred income | £792k | £1.5m | £1.3m | — | — |
| Cash from operations | — | −£3.1m | −£4.2m | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2026 | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 8.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £2.6m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £46.1k
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- —
- Now 40
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Kagome Co., Ltd. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Silbury Marketing Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Portal Foods LtdFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £1.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 21 Oct 2026