Exultant Limited
Registered name: EXULTANT LIMITED
Part of Exultant Holdings Limited groupExultant Limited made £15m revenue and £520k profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025.
Exultant Limited’s revenue grew 7% to £15m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £520k profit and 367 employees. The company is classified under “take-away food shops and mobile food stands” and is based in High Wycombe; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- High Wycombe, South East
- Age
- 22 yrs · since 2004
- 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 Jul 2021 | 31 Jul 2022 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.9m | £10.8m | £10.9m | £14m | £15m |
| Cost of sales | £6m | £5.7m | £8m | £10m | £10.8m |
| Gross profit | £5.9m | £5m | £3m | £4m | £4.2m |
| Operating profit | £1.8m | £469k | −£262k | −£427k | £470k |
| Profit before tax | £1.8m | £476k | −£266k | −£447k | £470k |
| Profit after tax | £1.6m | −£61.9k | −£319k | −£400k | £520k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.6m | −£61.9k | −£319k | −£400k | £520k |
| Staff costs | £3.6m | £3.5m | £4.5m | £5.7m | £5.9m |
| Employees (average) | 281 | 278 | 310 | 379 | 367 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 13.1% | −0.6% | −2.9% | −2.9% | 3.5% |
| Gross margin | 49.9% | 46.7% | 27.1% | 28.7% | 28.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £42.2k | £38.7k | £35.2k | £37k | £40.9k |
| Profit per employee | £5.5k | −£223 | −£1k | −£1.1k | £1.4k |
| Cash conversion | −85.4% | −47.5% | — | — | −138.9% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼9.2% | ▲1.4% | ▲28.4% | ▲7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼104% | — | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼1.1% | ▲11.5% | ▲22.3% | ▼3.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £2.3m | £1.8m | £261k | £201k | £794k |
| Net assets | £3.6m | £3.5m | £3.2m | £2.8m | £3.3m |
| Fixed assets | £1.7m | £2m | £2.3m | £2.2m | £2.1m |
| Current assets | £2.6m | £3.3m | £2.9m | £2.9m | £4m |
| Debtors | £170k | £163k | £2 | £0 | £3.2m |
| Deferred income | £0 | £9.5k | £249k | £403k | £555k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.6m | −£223k | £1m | −£23.5k | −£652k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 28.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £40.9k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −138.9%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 13.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 21.2%
- 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
- ▲19%
- Now £3.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲295%
- Now £794k
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 367
- Deferred income
- ▲38%
- Now £555k
- Fixed assets
- ▼8%
- Now £2.1m
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
- Exultant Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Exultant Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (7)
- Exultant Food to Go LtdRev. £15.9m · Profit −£173k
- Exultant Burgers LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Exultant Chicken LtdFigures not disclosed
- Exultant Fitness LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Exultant Pizza LtdFigures not disclosed
- Exultant Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Joy Brands 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 Jul 2025 (profit £520k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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