Beer Trading Limited
Registered name: BEER TRADING LIMITED
Beer Trading Limited made £23.8m revenue and £49.8k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Beer Trading Limited’s revenue grew 6% to £23.8m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £49.8k profit and 70 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of wine, beer, spirits and other alcoholic beverages” and is based in Middlewich; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Middlewich, North West
- Age
- 19 yrs · since 2007
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £18.1m | £22.5m | £23.8m |
| Cost of sales | — | £14.5m | £18.6m | £19.6m |
| Gross profit | — | £3.6m | £3.9m | £4.1m |
| Operating profit | — | £926k | £350k | £110k |
| Profit before tax | — | £914k | £334k | £92.4k |
| Profit after tax | — | £644k | £231k | £49.8k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £644k | £231k | £49.8k |
| Staff costs | — | £1.9m | £2.5m | £2.6m |
| Employees (average) | 1 | 60 | 68 | 70 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | 3.5% | 1% | 0.2% |
| Gross margin | — | 20.1% | 17.3% | 17.4% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £302k | £331k | £340k |
| Profit per employee | — | £10.7k | £3.4k | £712 |
| Cash conversion | — | 82.3% | 269% | 186.5% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲24% | ▲5.7% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼64.1% | ▼78.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5900% | ▲13.3% | ▲2.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1 | £181k | £225k | £149k |
| Net assets | £8 | £643k | £774k | £776k |
| Fixed assets | — | £1.1m | £1.1m | £954k |
| Current assets | £1k | £2.5m | £2.6m | £2.8m |
| Debtors | £1k | £872k | £1.1m | £940k |
| Cash from operations | — | £762k | £940k | £205k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 17.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £340k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £712
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 186.5%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 4%
- 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
- ▲0%
- Now £776k
- Cash at bank
- ▼34%
- Now £149k
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 70
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼14%
- Now £954k
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £49.8k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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