Chapel Down Group PLC
Registered name: CHAPEL DOWN GROUP PLC
Chapel Down Group PLC made £19.4m revenue and £230k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Chapel Down Group PLC’s revenue grew 19% to £19.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £230k profit and 97 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of wine from grape” and is based in Tenterden; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Tenterden, South East
- Age
- 24 yrs · since 2002
- Type
- Public 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 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £16.4m | £19.4m |
| Cost of sales | −£8.4m | −£10.3m |
| Gross profit | £7.9m | £9.2m |
| Operating profit | −£902k | £1.3m |
| Profit before tax | −£1.4m | £469k |
| Profit after tax | −£1.3m | £230k |
| Profit (best available) | −£1.3m | £230k |
| Employees (average) | 92 | 97 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −8% | 1.2% |
| Gross margin | 48.4% | 47.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £178k | £200k |
| Profit per employee | −£14.2k | £2.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲18.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Net assets | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2026 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 47.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £200k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.4k
- 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
- ▲5%
- Now 97
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- English Wines PLCFigures not disclosed
Minority corporate shareholders
- Ipgl Limited 25–50%
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £230k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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