HP West End Limited
Registered name: HP WEST END LIMITED
Part of HPCC Group Limited groupHP West End Limited made £22.1m revenue and £234k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
HP West End Limited’s revenue fell 6% to £22.1m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £234k profit and 107 employees. The company is classified under “artistic creation” and is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 11 yrs · since 2015
- 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 | 27 Mar 2022 | 2 Apr 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 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) | £9.6m | £25.4m | £23.5m | £22.1m |
| Cost of sales | £6.9m | £19.5m | £18.8m | £18.4m |
| Gross profit | £2.7m | £5.9m | £4.7m | £3.7m |
| Operating profit | £238k | −£1.2m | −£932k | −£167k |
| Profit before tax | £243k | −£1.2m | −£889k | −£123k |
| Profit after tax | £445k | £586k | −£400k | £234k |
| Profit (best available) | £445k | £586k | −£400k | £234k |
| Staff costs | £2m | £5.8m | £6.2m | £6.1m |
| Employees (average) | 91 | 101 | 102 | 107 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 4.6% | 2.3% | −1.7% | 1.1% |
| Gross margin | 28.4% | 23.1% | 19.8% | 16.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £105k | £251k | £230k | £207k |
| Profit per employee | £4.9k | £5.8k | −£3.9k | £2.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▼7.4% | ▼5.7% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼168.2% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | — | ▲1% | ▲4.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3.5m | £3m | £2.3m | £3.6m |
| Net assets | £2m | £1.4m | £1m | £1.3m |
| Fixed assets | £1m | £957k | £889k | £645k |
| Current assets | £5.8m | £4.8m | £4.4m | £4.9m |
| Debtors | £889k | £494k | £542k | £331k |
| Deferred income | £789k | £437k | £372k | £316k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 16.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £207k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- 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
- ▲22%
- Now £1.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲57%
- Now £3.6m
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 107
- Deferred income
- ▼15%
- Now £316k
- Fixed assets
- ▼27%
- Now £645k
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
- HPCC Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- HP West End Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- HP Melbourne Finance LimitedFigures 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 Mar 2025 (profit £234k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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