Krone UK Ltd
Registered name: KRONE UK LTD
Part of Bernard Krone Holding Se & Co Kg groupKrone UK Ltd made £34.8m revenue and £491k profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025. read from filing text
Krone UK Ltd’s revenue grew 46% to £34.8m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £491k profit and 40 employees. The company is classified under “support activities for crop production” and is based in Leeds; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 17 yrs · since 2009
- 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's immediate parent is Krone Agriculture SE, incorporated in Germany.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2022 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 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) | £30.4m | £33.8m | £23.9m | £34.8m |
| Cost of sales | £24.5m | £27.4m | £17m | £27.7m |
| Gross profit | £5.9m | £6.4m | £6.9m | £7.1m |
| Operating profit | £1.9m | £1.8m | £2.3m | £2.2m |
| Profit before tax | £904k | £414k | £295k | £490k |
| Profit after tax | £721k | £323k | £224k | £491k |
| Profit (best available) | £721k | £323k | £224k | £491k |
| Staff costs | £1.9m | £2.1m | £2.2m | £2.4m |
| Employees (average) | 38 | 39 | 37 | 40 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2.4% | 1% | 0.9% | 1.4% |
| Gross margin | 19.3% | 18.8% | 28.8% | 20.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £801k | £866k | £646k | £870k |
| Profit per employee | £19k | £8.3k | £6.1k | £12.3k |
| Cash conversion | −84.4% | −29.1% | −140.8% | −55% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲11% | ▼29.3% | ▲45.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼55.2% | ▼30.6% | ▲118.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2.6% | ▼5.1% | ▲8.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2m | £861k | £2m | £1.4m |
| Net assets | £3.4m | £3.7m | £3.9m | £4.4m |
| Fixed assets | £308k | £316k | £223k | £117k |
| Current assets | £21m | £26m | £24m | £19.6m |
| Debtors | £6.7m | £8m | £2.4m | £4.3m |
| Deferred income | £533k | £702k | £488k | £437k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.6m | −£535k | −£3.2m | −£1.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £870k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £12.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −55%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.3%
- 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
- ▲12%
- Now £4.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▼31%
- Now £1.4m
- Headcount
- ▲8%
- Now 40
- Deferred income
- ▼10%
- Now £437k
- Fixed assets
- ▼47%
- Now £117k
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
- Bernard Krone Holding Se & Co Kg (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Krone UK Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Krone Forage Solutions LtdFigures 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 Jul 2025 (profit £491k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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