Just Digital Limited
Registered name: JUST DIGITAL LIMITED
Part of Messenger UK Holdco Limited groupJust Digital Limited made £13.8m revenue and £1.3m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Just Digital Limited’s revenue was £13.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £1.3m profit and 203 employees. The company is classified under “printing” and is based in Huntingdon; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Huntingdon, East of England
- Age
- 22 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.4m | £13.7m | £13.8m |
| Cost of sales | £9m | £8.9m | £8.1m |
| Gross profit | £4.4m | £4.8m | £5.7m |
| Operating profit | £190k | £929k | £1.7m |
| Profit before tax | £13k | £1.3m | £1.7m |
| Profit after tax | £28.3k | £1.1m | £1.3m |
| Profit (best available) | £28.3k | £1.1m | £1.3m |
| Staff costs | £6.6m | £6.4m | £5.9m |
| Employees (average) | 211 | 218 | 203 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.2% | 7.9% | 9.8% |
| Gross margin | 33.1% | 35% | 41.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £63.6k | £63.1k | £67.8k |
| Profit per employee | £134 | £5k | £6.6k |
| Cash conversion | 827% | 177.9% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲2.4% | ▲0.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲3745% | ▲23.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.3% | ▼6.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.8m | £2.4m | £921k |
| Net assets | £1.9m | £3m | £4.3m |
| Fixed assets | £2.9m | £2.3m | £1.8m |
| Current assets | £4.8m | £5.3m | £6.3m |
| Debtors | £1.9m | £1.9m | £1.7m |
| Deferred income | £233k | £215k | £159k |
| Cash from operations | £1.6m | £1.7m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 41.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £67.8k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 13.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12%
- 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 £4.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼62%
- Now £921k
- Headcount
- ▼7%
- Now 203
- Deferred income
- ▼26%
- Now £159k
- Fixed assets
- ▼20%
- Now £1.8m
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
- Messenger UK Holdco Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Just Digital Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Gateway Print Services 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 Dec 2024 (profit £1.3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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