Decorative Panels Furniture Limited
Registered name: DECORATIVE PANELS FURNITURE LIMITED
Part of Decorative Panels Holdings Limited groupDecorative Panels Furniture Limited made £42.1m revenue and £369k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Decorative Panels Furniture Limited’s revenue was £42.1m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £369k profit and 212 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other furniture” and is based in Elland; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Elland, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 17 yrs · since 2008
- 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 March 2025, the immediate parent undertaking is Decorative Panels Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales. The ultimate parent company is Decorative Panels Holdings Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £34.9m | £38.6m | £42.3m | £42.1m |
| Cost of sales | £29.1m | £33.8m | £37.1m | £35.6m |
| Gross profit | £5.8m | £4.9m | £5.2m | £6.5m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £776k | £592k | £903k |
| Profit before tax | £1.1m | £486k | £179k | £502k |
| Profit after tax | £927k | −£233k | £346k | £369k |
| Profit (best available) | £927k | −£233k | £346k | £369k |
| Staff costs | £6.2m | £6.9m | £7.7m | £8.2m |
| Employees (average) | 204 | 205 | 212 | 212 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2.7% | −0.6% | 0.8% | 0.9% |
| Gross margin | 16.5% | 12.6% | 12.3% | 15.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £171k | £188k | £199k | £199k |
| Profit per employee | £4.5k | −£1.1k | £1.6k | £1.7k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲10.7% | ▲9.4% | ▼0.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼125.2% | — | ▲6.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲0.5% | ▲3.4% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £604k | £293k | £859k | £365k |
| Net assets | £4.7m | £4.4m | £4.8m | £5.2m |
| Fixed assets | £2.4m | £4.9m | £4.1m | £3.8m |
| Current assets | £12.9m | £13m | £14.7m | £13.3m |
| Debtors | £2.9m | £3.2m | £4.5m | £3.1m |
| Deferred income | £2.7m | £2.8m | £2.8m | £2.8m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 15.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £199k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 9.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 6.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 7.4%
- 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
- ▲8%
- Now £5.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼58%
- Now £365k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 212
- Deferred income
- ▼1%
- Now £2.8m
- Fixed assets
- ▼6%
- Now £3.8m
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
- Decorative Panels Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Decorative Panels Furniture Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Decorative Panels Components LimitedRev. £40m · Profit £423k
- Decorative Panels Lamination LimitedRev. £36.6m · Profit £758k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £369k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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