International Cookware Limited
Registered name: INTERNATIONAL COOKWARE LIMITED
International Cookware Limited made £15.1m revenue and £470k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
International Cookware Limited’s revenue grew 1% to £15.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £470k profit and 24 employees. The company is classified under “operation of warehousing and storage facilities for land transport activities” and is based in Seaham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Seaham, North East
- Age
- 20 yrs · since 2005
- 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: “At 31 December 2025, the immediate parent undertaking”
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 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.8m | £12.9m | £14.9m | £15.1m |
| Cost of sales | £10m | £8.9m | £10.3m | £9.4m |
| Gross profit | £3.8m | £4.1m | £4.6m | £5.7m |
| Operating profit | £1.4m | £1.3m | £162k | £541k |
| Profit before tax | £1.5m | £1.4m | £103k | £484k |
| Profit after tax | £1.5m | £1.6m | −£220k | £470k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.5m | £1.6m | −£220k | £470k |
| Employees (average) | 25 | 24 | 24 | 24 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 10.9% | 12.6% | −1.5% | 3.1% |
| Gross margin | 27.7% | 31.4% | 31.1% | 37.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £554k | £538k | £622k | £628k |
| Profit per employee | £60.1k | £67.6k | −£9.2k | £19.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼6.7% | ▲15.6% | ▲0.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲8% | ▼113.6% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4% | 0% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3.3m | £4m | £2.5m | £1.6m |
| Net assets | £9.3m | £5.2m | £5m | £3.1m |
| Fixed assets | £57k | £227k | £180k | £135k |
| Current assets | £13.2m | £9.1m | £8.8m | £7.4m |
| Debtors | £7.6m | £2.8m | £4.6m | £3.3m |
| Deferred income | £624k | £682k | £893k | £924k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 37.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £628k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £19.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 6.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 21.8%
- 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
- ▼38%
- Now £3.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼34%
- Now £1.6m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 24
- Deferred income
- ▲3%
- Now £924k
- Fixed assets
- ▼25%
- Now £135k
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 £470k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 23 Oct 2026
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