Tate Business Group Ltd
Registered name: TATE BUSINESS GROUP LTD
Part of Inventure Holdings Limited groupTate Business Group Ltd does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Jul 2025 show net assets of £2.3m and 37 employees.
Tate Business Group Ltd did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 Jul 2025 showed net assets of £2.3m and 37 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of other intermediate products” and is based in Leighton Buzzard; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leighton Buzzard, East of England
- Age
- 38 yrs · since 1988
- 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
Revenue not disclosed
Tate Business Group Ltd’s accounts for the year to 31 Jul 2025 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 37
- Net assets
- £2.3m
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2022 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.6m | £14.2m | £14m | — |
| Cost of sales | £12.4m | £12.5m | £12.3m | — |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £1.7m | £1.7m | — |
| Operating profit | £200k | £195k | £276k | — |
| Profit before tax | £187k | £176k | £260k | — |
| Profit after tax | £141k | £126k | £260k | — |
| Profit (best available) | £141k | £126k | £260k | — |
| Staff costs | £1.8m | £1.3m | £1.4m | — |
| Employees (average) | 52 | 38 | 37 | 37 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1% | 0.9% | 1.8% | — |
| Gross margin | 15.1% | 11.7% | 12.4% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £281k | £373k | £379k | — |
| Profit per employee | £2.7k | £3.3k | £7k | — |
| Cash conversion | 23.7% | −157.4% | −103% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼3.1% | ▼1.1% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▼10.8% | ▲106.7% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼26.9% | ▼2.6% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.5m | £777k | £830k | £1.4m |
| Net assets | £1.9m | £2m | £2.1m | £2.3m |
| Fixed assets | £92.5k | £927k | £816k | £714k |
| Current assets | £4.5m | £3.2m | £3.4m | £3.8m |
| Debtors | £2.2m | £2m | £2.1m | £1.9m |
| Cash from operations | £47.4k | −£307k | −£285k | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
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
- ▲9%
- Now £2.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲71%
- Now £1.4m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 37
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼12%
- Now £714k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Inventure Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Nationwide Paper Limited75–100%
- Tate Business Group Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Tate B G LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Tate Consumables LtdFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (1)
- Greenearth Food Packaging 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 Jul 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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