Commercial Catering Spares Ltd.
Registered name: COMMERCIAL CATERING SPARES LTD.
Part of Repa Deutschland Gmbh groupCommercial Catering Spares Ltd. made £76.9m revenue and £6.6m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Commercial Catering Spares Ltd.’s revenue grew 7% to £76.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £6.6m profit and 205 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of other machinery and equipment” and is based in Heywood; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Heywood, North West
- 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.
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 | Profit & loss | Profit & loss | Profit & loss |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £47.3m | £71.6m | £76.9m |
| Cost of sales | −£34.5m | −£52.2m | −£55.2m |
| Gross profit | £12.8m | £19.4m | £21.7m |
| Operating profit | £3.7m | £6.9m | £8.9m |
| Profit before tax | £3.7m | £7m | £9.1m |
| Profit after tax | £2.8m | £5.1m | £6.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.8m | £5.1m | £6.6m |
| Employees (average) | 265 | 208 | 205 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 5.8% | 7.2% | 8.6% |
| Gross margin | 27% | 27.1% | 28.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £179k | £344k | £375k |
| Profit per employee | £10.4k | £24.7k | £32.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲51.3% | ▲7.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲86.1% | ▲28.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼21.5% | ▼1.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 8.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 28.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £375k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £32.3k
- 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 205
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Repa Deutschland Gmbh (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Commercial Catering Spares Ltd.this company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- First Choice Group 1999 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 £6.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 23 Oct 2026