Pets Choice Limited
Registered name: PETS CHOICE LIMITED
Part of P.F.I Vitakraft Gmbh groupPets Choice Limited made £1.7m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025 (revenue not disclosed).
Pets Choice Limited reported £1.7m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025, down 61% on the year before; its revenue was not disclosed. It had 344 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of prepared pet foods” and is based in Blackburn; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Blackburn, North West
- Age
- 38 yrs · since 1987
- 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 immediate parent company is Pet Food Brands Ltd whose registered office is Brentwood House, Lower Philips Road, Whitebirk Industrial Estate, Blackburn, Lancashire BB1 5UD.”
Key figures
This company published its profit but not its turnover, so revenue and margins are not disclosed. We never estimate them.
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 | Profit only |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £94.9m | £109m | £113m | — |
| Cost of sales | £68m | £73.4m | £74.7m | £77.9m |
| Gross profit | £26.8m | £35.3m | £37.9m | — |
| Operating profit | £5.8m | £6.9m | £6.3m | — |
| Profit before tax | £5.8m | £6.7m | £5.9m | £2.4m |
| Profit after tax | £4.7m | £5.1m | £4.3m | £1.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £4.7m | £5.1m | £4.3m | £1.7m |
| Staff costs | £11.5m | £12.8m | £14.3m | £15.1m |
| Employees (average) | 313 | 336 | 342 | 344 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5% | 4.7% | 3.8% | — |
| Gross margin | 28.3% | 32.5% | 33.6% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £303k | £323k | £329k | — |
| Profit per employee | £15.1k | £15.1k | £12.5k | £4.9k |
| Cash conversion | — | — | 26.5% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲14.6% | ▲3.6% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▲7.5% | ▼15.8% | ▼60.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲7.3% | ▲1.8% | ▲0.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £4.1m | £5.8m | £1m | £818k |
| Net assets | £22.1m | £26.7m | £30.7m | £32.1m |
| Fixed assets | £13.8m | £13.4m | £18.1m | £32.9m |
| Current assets | £38.9m | £41.6m | £41.7m | £42.8m |
| Debtors | £19m | £20.4m | £20.4m | £22.1m |
| Deferred income | £302k | £280k | £276k | £251k |
| Cash from operations | — | — | £1.7m | −£16.4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.9k
- 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
- ▲5%
- Now £32.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼19%
- Now £818k
- Headcount
- ▲1%
- Now 344
- Deferred income
- ▼9%
- Now £251k
- Fixed assets
- ▲82%
- Now £32.9m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- P.F.I Vitakraft Gmbh (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent50–75%
- Pet Food Brands (Holdings) Ltd75–100%
- Pet Food Brands Limited75–100%
- Pets Choice Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Pettex Topco 2 LimitedFigures 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit £1.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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