Glancy Fawcett Limited
Registered name: GLANCY FAWCETT LIMITED
Part of Glancy Fawcett Holdings Limited groupGlancy Fawcett Limited made £11.1m revenue and £978k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Glancy Fawcett Limited’s revenue fell 33% to £11.1m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £978k profit and 59 employees. The company is classified under “retail of furniture, lighting, and similar (not musical instruments or scores) in specialised store” and is based in Manchester; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Manchester, North West
- Age
- 23 yrs · since 2003
- 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 company’s immediate and ultimate parent company is Glancy Fawcett Holdings Limited.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | £16.6m | £11.1m |
| Cost of sales | — | — | £11.3m | £6.3m |
| Gross profit | — | — | £5.3m | £4.8m |
| Operating profit | — | — | £2.9m | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £3m | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | — | — | £2.2m | £978k |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | £2.2m | £978k |
| Staff costs | — | — | £2.2m | £2.8m |
| Employees (average) | 41 | 45 | 51 | 59 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | 13.5% | 8.8% |
| Gross margin | — | — | 32.1% | 43% |
| Revenue per employee | — | — | £326k | £188k |
| Profit per employee | — | — | £44.1k | £16.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | — | ▼33.1% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▼56.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲9.8% | ▲13.3% | ▲15.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £890k | £3.8m | £2m | £3.3m |
| Net assets | £950k | £1.3m | £2.9m | £3m |
| Fixed assets | £486k | £387k | £585k | £812k |
| Current assets | £2.8m | £10.5m | £5.4m | £7.3m |
| Debtors | £1.6m | £6.3m | £2.1m | £1.9m |
| Deferred income | £9.5k | £9.5k | £9.5k | £1.4m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 8.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 43%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £188k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £16.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 7.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 12.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17.5%
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now £3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲67%
- Now £3.3m
- Headcount
- ▲16%
- Now 59
- Deferred income
- ▲14221%
- Now £1.4m
- Fixed assets
- ▲39%
- Now £812k
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
- Glancy Fawcett Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Glancy Fawcett Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (3)
- Glancy Fawcett Architectural LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Jonathan Fawcett LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kevin Glancy LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £978k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 19 Oct 2026
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