Value Retail Limited
Registered name: VALUE RETAIL LIMITED
Value Retail Limited made £372m revenue and £7m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Value Retail Limited’s revenue grew 2% to £372m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £7m profit and 1,148 employees. The company is classified under “management of real estate on a fee or contract basis”; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London
- Age
- 33 yrs · since 1993
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £341m | £364m | £372m |
| Cost of sales | −£331m | −£352m | −£359m |
| Gross profit | £10.1m | £12.4m | £13.2m |
| Operating profit | £8.7m | £9.2m | £9.6m |
| Profit before tax | £9m | £9.1m | £9.7m |
| Profit after tax | £6.4m | £6.1m | £7m |
| Profit (best available) | £6.4m | £6.1m | £7m |
| Employees (average) | 1,121 | 1,160 | 1,148 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.9% | 1.7% | 1.9% |
| Gross margin | 3% | 3.4% | 3.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £304k | £314k | £324k |
| Profit per employee | £5.7k | £5.3k | £6.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲6.9% | ▲2.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼4.3% | ▲14.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.5% | ▼1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 3.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £324k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.1k
- 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
- ▼1%
- Now 1,148
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Subsidiaries (4)
- Value Retail (International) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Value Retail Innovation LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Value Retail Management (Bicester Village) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Value Retail Management LimitedFigures 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 £7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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