Unipet International Limited
Registered name: UNIPET INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Part of Unipet Holdings Limited groupUnipet International Limited made £12.7m revenue and £387k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Unipet International Limited’s revenue fell 14% to £12.7m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £387k profit and 56 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of prepared pet foods” and is based in Sittingbourne; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Sittingbourne, South East
- Age
- 33 yrs · since 1993
- 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 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.7m | £14.8m | £12.7m |
| Cost of sales | £12.4m | £11.6m | £9.5m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £3.2m | £3.2m |
| Operating profit | £230k | £1.1m | £606k |
| Profit before tax | £151k | £934k | £492k |
| Profit after tax | £164k | £715k | £387k |
| Profit (best available) | £164k | £715k | £387k |
| Staff costs | £2m | £2m | £2.1m |
| Employees (average) | 68 | 57 | 56 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.1% | 4.8% | 3% |
| Gross margin | 15.3% | 21.4% | 25.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £216k | £259k | £227k |
| Profit per employee | £2.4k | £12.5k | £6.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲0.4% | ▼14% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲336.2% | ▼45.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼16.2% | ▼1.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £115 | £35 | £278k |
| Net assets | £283k | £498k | £635k |
| Fixed assets | £1.2m | £1.2m | £1.1m |
| Current assets | £2.7m | £2.3m | £3.2m |
| Debtors | £1.3m | £1.3m | £1.5m |
| Deferred income | £124k | £95k | £446k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £227k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 8.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11.7%
- 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
- ▲28%
- Now £635k
- Cash at bank
- ▲793857%
- Now £278k
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 56
- Deferred income
- ▲370%
- Now £446k
- Fixed assets
- ▼6%
- Now £1.1m
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
- Unipet Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Unipet International Limitedthis 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 2024 (profit £387k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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