Fern-Howard Limited
Registered name: FERN-HOWARD LIMITED
Fern-Howard Limited made £697k revenue and £101k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Fern-Howard Limited’s revenue fell 14% to £697k in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £101k profit and 5 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of electric lighting equipment” and is based in Milton Keynes; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Milton Keynes, South East
- Age
- 30 yrs · since 1996
- 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 immediate parent undertaking of the Company is Matrix Lighting Enterprise Limited, a company incorporated in Samoa.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £814k | £697k |
| Cost of sales | £479k | £353k |
| Gross profit | £334k | £344k |
| Profit before tax | £124k | £101k |
| Profit after tax | £124k | £101k |
| Profit (best available) | £124k | £101k |
| Staff costs | £128k | £144k |
| Employees (average) | 4 | 5 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 15.3% | 14.5% |
| Gross margin | 41.1% | 49.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £203k | £139k |
| Profit per employee | £31k | £20.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼14.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼18.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲25% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £140k | £110k |
| Net assets | −£3.1m | −£3m |
| Fixed assets | £7k | £1.8k |
| Current assets | £712k | £597k |
| Debtors | £57.2k | £66.8k |
| Deferred income | £237k | £244k |
| Cash from operations | £57.5k | £29.3k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 14.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 49.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £139k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £20.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 35%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.6%
- 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 −£3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼21%
- Now £110k
- Headcount
- ▲25%
- Now 5
- Deferred income
- ▲3%
- Now £244k
- Fixed assets
- ▼74%
- Now £1.8k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £101k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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