Nationwide Paper Limited
Registered name: NATIONWIDE PAPER LIMITED
Part of Inventure Holdings Limited groupNationwide Paper Limited made £11.8m revenue and £459k profit in the year to 31 May 2025.
Nationwide Paper Limited’s revenue was £11.8m in the year to 31 May 2025, with £459k profit and 16 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of other intermediate products” and is based in High Wycombe; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- High Wycombe, 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.
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 May 2024 | 31 May 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | £8.2m | £3.9m | £11.8m |
| Cost of sales | — | — | £6.2m | £2.9m | £9.1m |
| Gross profit | — | — | £1.9m | £1m | £2.7m |
| Operating profit | — | — | £553k | £413k | £741k |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £490k | £479k | £645k |
| Profit after tax | — | — | £371k | £381k | £459k |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | £371k | £381k | £459k |
| Staff costs | — | — | — | £278k | £561k |
| Employees (average) | 6 | 6 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | — | — | 4.5% | 9.7% | 3.9% |
| Gross margin | — | — | 23.5% | 26.7% | 22.9% |
| Revenue per employee | — | — | £510k | £246k | £739k |
| Profit per employee | — | — | £23.2k | £23.8k | £28.7k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲166.7% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £197k | £221k | £48.5k | £53.3k | £74.7k |
| Net assets | £2.6m | £3.1m | £3.4m | £3.7m | £4.1m |
| Fixed assets | £70.1k | £2.5m | £2.5m | £2.5m | £2.7m |
| Current assets | £4m | £3.5m | £4.1m | £4.5m | £7.3m |
| Debtors | £1.8m | £1.4m | £1.7m | £1.8m | £2.9m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £739k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £28.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 22.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 24.7%
- 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 £4.1m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £74.7k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 16
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £2.7m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Inventure Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Nationwide Paper Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Greenearth Food Packaging LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Tate Business Group LtdFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (20)
- Inventure Wholesale LtdRev. £3.5m · Profit £88.9k
- Value and Service Dental Supplies LimitedRev. £2.3m · Profit £312k
- Alpha Retail LtdFigures not disclosed
- Inventure Ashton LtdFigures not disclosed
- Inventure Birmingham LtdFigures not disclosed
- Inventure Camden LtdFigures not disclosed
- Inventure CHS LtdFigures not disclosed
- Inventure Church Road LtdFigures not disclosed
- Inventure Circle LtdFigures not disclosed
- Inventure Ecr LtdFigures not disclosed
- Inventure Kensington LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Inventure Old Street LtdFigures not disclosed
- Inventure Putney LtdFigures not disclosed
- Inventure Retail LtdFigures not disclosed
- Inventure Soho LtdFigures not disclosed
- Inventure Soho Road LtdFigures not disclosed
- Inventure Stamford Street LtdFigures not disclosed
- Inventure Warren Street LtdFigures not disclosed
- Inventure Warwick Road LtdFigures not disclosed
- Photon Enterprises LtdFigures 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 May 2025 (profit £459k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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