Venus Wine & Spirit Merchants Limited
Registered name: VENUS WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS LIMITED
Part of Tesco PLC groupVenus Wine & Spirit Merchants Limited made £117m revenue and £926k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2024.
Venus Wine & Spirit Merchants Limited’s revenue grew 5% to £117m in the year to 30 Sep 2024, with £926k profit and 134 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of wine, beer, spirits and other alcoholic beverages” and is based in Wellingborough; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wellingborough, East Midlands
- Age
- 20 yrs · since 2006
- 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 | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £99.1m | £111m | £117m |
| Cost of sales | £84.4m | £93.8m | −£100m |
| Gross profit | £14.7m | £17.6m | £16.7m |
| Operating profit | £5.3m | £5.4m | £984k |
| Profit before tax | £5.3m | £5.6m | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | £4.2m | £4.3m | £926k |
| Profit (best available) | £4.2m | £4.3m | £926k |
| Staff costs | £4.7m | £6.4m | — |
| Employees (average) | 123 | 125 | 134 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.3% | 3.9% | 0.8% |
| Gross margin | 14.9% | 15.8% | 14.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £806k | £891k | £872k |
| Profit per employee | £34.2k | £34.4k | £6.9k |
| Cash conversion | 56.1% | 51% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲12.4% | ▲4.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲2.3% | ▼78.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.6% | ▲7.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £5.1m | £6.4m | — |
| Net assets | £7.8m | £11.1m | — |
| Fixed assets | £2.2m | £2.4m | — |
| Current assets | £19.7m | £20.7m | — |
| Debtors | £8.5m | £8.1m | — |
| Deferred income | £1.4m | £1.6m | — |
| Cash from operations | £3m | £2.8m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jun 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 14.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £872k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲7%
- Now 134
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Tesco PLCultimate parent75–100%
- Tesco Holdings Limited75–100%
- Booker Group Limited75–100%
- Booker Wholesale Holdings Limited75–100%
- Booker Limited75–100%
- Venus Wine & Spirit Merchants Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Sep 2024 (profit £926k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 11 Oct 2026
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