Bayfields Y Limited
Registered name: BAYFIELDS Y LIMITED
Part of Bayfields Group Limited groupBayfields Y Limited made £18.1m revenue and £502k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Bayfields Y Limited’s revenue grew 14% to £18.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £502k profit and 134 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale by opticians” and is based in Shipley; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Shipley, Yorkshire and The Humber
- 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: “The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bayfields Group Limited, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom. In the opinion of the directors the ultimate controlling party is R Bayfield.”
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&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £12.9m | £15.8m | £18.1m |
| Cost of sales | £3.6m | £4.3m | £4.7m |
| Gross profit | £9.4m | £11.5m | £13.4m |
| Operating profit | £343k | £644k | £654k |
| Profit before tax | £296k | £536k | £531k |
| Profit after tax | £286k | £395k | £502k |
| Profit (best available) | £286k | £395k | £502k |
| Staff costs | £3.8m | £4.5m | £5.3m |
| Employees (average) | 124 | 121 | 134 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 2.2% | 2.5% | 2.8% |
| Gross margin | 72.5% | 72.6% | 73.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £104k | £131k | £135k |
| Profit per employee | £2.3k | £3.3k | £3.7k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲22.3% | ▲14.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲38% | ▲27.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼2.4% | ▲10.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £171k | £196k | £249k |
| Net assets | £1.2m | £1.6m | £2.1m |
| Fixed assets | £9m | £9.9m | £9.6m |
| Current assets | £1.5m | £2.4m | £3.8m |
| Debtors | £486k | £575k | £486k |
| Deferred income | £42.5k | £43.4k | £114k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 73.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £135k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 52.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 2.7%
- 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
- ▲31%
- Now £2.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲28%
- Now £249k
- Headcount
- ▲11%
- Now 134
- Deferred income
- ▲163%
- Now £114k
- Fixed assets
- ▼3%
- Now £9.6m
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
- Bayfields Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Bayfields Y Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (16)
- Bayfields Audiology Dormant LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Blenkinsop & Co LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Brooks & Wardman LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Cottam & Glaister LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Eyeworks London LimitedFigures not disclosed
- H.a.hudson LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hague Optical LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Image Optical LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Looking Ahead LimitedFigures not disclosed
- M. B. Bellmore Dormant LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Quiet Key Dormant LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Samantha Parker Dormant LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Simon Pestell LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Stephen Pinnington (Nantwich) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- T.c.o. Atkinson LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Optical Shop (West) Dormant LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (9)
- Bayfields Z LimitedRev. £20.6m · Profit −£147k
- Bayfields (Barnard Castle) Holdings Dormant LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bayfields (Clitheroe) Dormant LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bayfields (Harrogate) Holdings Dormant LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bayfields (Horsforth) Dormant LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bayfields (Huddersfield) Dormant LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bayfields (Pontefract) Dormant LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bayfields (Univision) Dormant LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bayfields (Wakefield) Dormant 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 £502k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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