Knox Pharmaceuticals Limited
Registered name: KNOX PHARMACEUTICALS LIMITED
Part of Knox Holdings Limited groupKnox Pharmaceuticals Limited made £37.1m revenue and £3.8m profit in the year to 31 Oct 2025. read from filing text
Knox Pharmaceuticals Limited’s revenue grew 23% to £37.1m in the year to 31 Oct 2025, with £3.8m profit and 38 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of pharmaceutical goods” and is based in Ripon; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Ripon, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 31 yrs · since 1995
- 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 parent company of Knox Pharmaceuticals Limited is Knox Holdings Limited, and its registered office is Unit 2 Barugh Way, Barker Business Park, Melmerby, Ripon, North Yorkshire, HG4 5NG.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Oct 2022 | 31 Oct 2023 | 31 Oct 2024 | 31 Oct 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 |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £23.2m | £27.2m | £30.3m | £37.1m |
| Cost of sales | £18.5m | £22.2m | £24.3m | £30.6m |
| Gross profit | £4.7m | £5m | £5.9m | £6.5m |
| Operating profit | £4.2m | £3.5m | £4.2m | £5.1m |
| Profit before tax | £4.2m | £3.5m | £4.2m | £5.1m |
| Profit after tax | £3.4m | £2.7m | £3.1m | £3.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.4m | £2.7m | £3.1m | £3.8m |
| Staff costs | £957k | £1.2m | £1.4m | £1.3m |
| Employees (average) | 42 | 39 | 39 | 38 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 14.6% | 9.9% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| Gross margin | 20.4% | 18.3% | 19.7% | 17.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £553k | £697k | £776k | £976k |
| Profit per employee | £80.8k | £69.3k | £80.7k | £101k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲17.1% | ▲11.3% | ▲22.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼20.3% | ▲16.4% | ▲21.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼7.1% | 0% | ▼2.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.7m | £2.4m | £1.1m | £2m |
| Net assets | £5.3m | £6.6m | £6m | £8.6m |
| Fixed assets | £945k | £1m | £1.1m | £1.2m |
| Current assets | £7.1m | £8.5m | £8m | £10.9m |
| Debtors | £3.2m | £4.2m | £4.6m | £5.9m |
| Deferred income | £60.2k | £66k | £130k | £349k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 10.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 17.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £976k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £101k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 16%
- 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
- ▲43%
- Now £8.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲71%
- Now £2m
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 38
- Deferred income
- ▲167%
- Now £349k
- Fixed assets
- ▲7%
- Now £1.2m
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
- Knox Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Knox Pharmaceuticals 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 Oct 2025 (profit £3.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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