Arlettie London Ltd
Registered name: ARLETTIE LONDON LTD
Arlettie London Ltd made £24.4m revenue and £130k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Arlettie London Ltd’s revenue fell 7% to £24.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £130k profit and 29 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of textiles” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 15 yrs · since 2011
- 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 immediate and ultimate parent company is Arlettie Paris SA, a company incorporated in France.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.4m | £26.1m | £24.4m |
| Cost of sales | £10.4m | £21.1m | £19.8m |
| Gross profit | £3m | £5.1m | £4.6m |
| Operating profit | £404k | £897k | £465k |
| Profit before tax | £403k | £919k | £335k |
| Profit after tax | £403k | £699k | £130k |
| Profit (best available) | £403k | £699k | £130k |
| Staff costs | — | £1.7m | £1.8m |
| Employees (average) | 20 | 26 | 29 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 3% | 2.7% | 0.5% |
| Gross margin | 22.3% | 19.4% | 19% |
| Revenue per employee | £668k | £1m | £841k |
| Profit per employee | £20.2k | £26.9k | £4.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲95.7% | ▼6.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲73.2% | ▼81.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲30% | ▲11.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £530k | £2.7m | £2.3m |
| Net assets | £272k | £971k | £131k |
| Fixed assets | £1.4m | £1.8m | £4.8m |
| Current assets | £807k | £3.5m | £3.1m |
| Debtors | £7.4k | £399k | £99.5k |
| Deferred income | £1.4m | £2m | £1.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 19%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £841k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 19.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- 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
- ▼87%
- Now £131k
- Cash at bank
- ▼14%
- Now £2.3m
- Headcount
- ▲12%
- Now 29
- Deferred income
- ▼27%
- Now £1.5m
- Fixed assets
- ▲168%
- Now £4.8m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £130k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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