Denbies Wine Estate Limited
Registered name: DENBIES WINE ESTATE LIMITED
Part of Denbies Holdings Limited groupDenbies Wine Estate Limited made £7.5m revenue and £327k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Denbies Wine Estate Limited’s revenue fell 1% to £7.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £327k profit and 178 employees. The company is classified under “growing of grapes” and is based in Dorking; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Dorking, South East
- 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. From the filing: “The immediate”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 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 | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7.5m | £8.1m | £7.6m | £7.5m |
| Cost of sales | £2.2m | £2.6m | £2.3m | £2.1m |
| Gross profit | £5.3m | £5.5m | £5.2m | £5.4m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £922k | £391k | £545k |
| Profit before tax | £1.2m | £772k | £250k | £435k |
| Profit after tax | £955k | £587k | £188k | £327k |
| Profit (best available) | £955k | £587k | £188k | £327k |
| Staff costs | £2.6m | £3m | £3.1m | £3.2m |
| Employees (average) | 187 | 184 | 177 | 178 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 12.7% | 7.2% | 2.5% | 4.3% |
| Gross margin | 71% | 67.6% | 69.1% | 72.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £40.1k | £44.2k | £42.9k | £42.2k |
| Profit per employee | £5.1k | £3.2k | £1.1k | £1.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲8.5% | ▼6.6% | ▼1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼38.5% | ▼67.9% | ▲73.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼1.6% | ▼3.8% | ▲0.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.4m | £1.1m | £1.3m | £1.7m |
| Net assets | £4.8m | £5.4m | £5.5m | £5.9m |
| Fixed assets | £437k | £600k | £749k | £855k |
| Current assets | £8.1m | £8.3m | £7.9m | £8m |
| Debtors | £337k | £655k | £204k | £187k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 72.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £42.2k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 11.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 2.5%
- 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
- ▲6%
- Now £5.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▲27%
- Now £1.7m
- Headcount
- ▲1%
- Now 178
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲14%
- Now £855k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Denbies Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Denbies Wine Estate Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £327k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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