Tangmere Airfield Nurseries Ltd
Registered name: TANGMERE AIRFIELD NURSERIES LTD
Part of The Old Airfield Tangmere Limited groupTangmere Airfield Nurseries Ltd made £25.8m revenue and £990k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Tangmere Airfield Nurseries Ltd’s revenue fell 2% to £25.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £990k profit and 154 employees. The company is classified under “growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers” and is based in Chichester; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Chichester, South East
- 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. From the filing: “The immediate and ultimate parent company is The Old Airfield Tangmere Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is The Old Airfield, City Fields Way, Tangme”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2021 | 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 | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £23.6m | £22.7m | £22.1m | £26.4m | £25.8m |
| Cost of sales | £22.2m | £22.9m | £21.1m | £24.2m | £24.5m |
| Gross profit | £1.4m | −£208k | £966k | £2.2m | £1.4m |
| Operating profit | £819k | £250k | £676k | £679k | £373k |
| Profit before tax | £638k | £531k | £977k | £909k | £903k |
| Profit after tax | £577k | £706k | £1m | £731k | £990k |
| Profit (best available) | £577k | £706k | £1m | £731k | £990k |
| Staff costs | £4.1m | £4.3m | £4.6m | £5.1m | £5.6m |
| Employees (average) | 143 | 134 | 139 | 152 | 154 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 2.4% | 3.1% | 4.6% | 2.8% | 3.8% |
| Gross margin | 6% | −0.9% | 4.4% | 8.3% | 5.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £165k | £170k | £159k | £173k | £168k |
| Profit per employee | £4k | £5.3k | £7.3k | £4.8k | £6.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼3.8% | ▼2.8% | ▲19.4% | ▼2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲22.2% | ▲43.7% | ▼27.9% | ▲35.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼6.3% | ▲3.7% | ▲9.3% | ▲1.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £9m | £9.8m | £13.5m | £12.8m | £10.1m |
| Net assets | £26.1m | £26.9m | £27.9m | £27.5m | £25.1m |
| Fixed assets | £8.7m | £8.9m | £9.1m | £8.8m | £8.3m |
| Current assets | £20.6m | £21.1m | £22.1m | £22.2m | £20.5m |
| Debtors | £663k | £771k | £364k | £176k | £31.6k |
| Deferred income | £144k | £417k | £222k | £1.1m | £286k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 5.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £168k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 32.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- 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
- ▼9%
- Now £25.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼21%
- Now £10.1m
- Headcount
- ▲1%
- Now 154
- Deferred income
- ▼74%
- Now £286k
- Fixed assets
- ▼5%
- Now £8.3m
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
- The Old Airfield Tangmere Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Tangmere Airfield Nurseries 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 Dec 2025 (profit £990k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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