Sco-Fro Group Limited
Registered name: SCO-FRO GROUP LIMITED
Part of Wismettac Harro Foods Limited groupSco-Fro Group Limited made £28.7m revenue and £686k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Sco-Fro Group Limited’s revenue grew 20% to £28.7m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £686k profit and 20 employees. The company is classified under “agents involved in the sale of food, beverages and tobacco”; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Scotland
- Age
- 51 yrs · since 1975
- 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 parent company, of which Sco-Fro Group Limited is a subsidiary, is Interlock Investments Limited, a company incorporated in Scotland.”
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) | £18.2m | £23.4m | £23.9m | £28.7m |
| Cost of sales | £16.8m | £20.7m | £23.3m | £25m |
| Gross profit | £1.4m | £2.6m | £595k | £3.6m |
| Operating profit | −£16.9k | £1m | −£1.8m | £1.3m |
| Profit before tax | −£106k | £705k | −£2.1m | £917k |
| Profit after tax | £22.6k | £163k | −£1.5m | £686k |
| Profit (best available) | £22.6k | £163k | −£1.5m | £686k |
| Staff costs | £911k | £976k | £1.1m | £1.3m |
| Employees (average) | 16 | 16 | 18 | 20 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 0.1% | 0.7% | −6.5% | 2.4% |
| Gross margin | 7.8% | 11.3% | 2.5% | 12.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £1.1m | £1.5m | £1.3m | £1.4m |
| Profit per employee | £1.4k | £10.2k | −£85.5k | £34.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲28.5% | ▲2% | ▲20.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲623.9% | ▼1042% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲12.5% | ▲11.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3.4k | £38.1k | £17.9k | £37.1k |
| Net assets | £1.6m | £1.7m | £187k | £872k |
| Fixed assets | £133k | £106k | £178k | £275k |
| Current assets | £9m | £8.3m | £10.1m | £11.4m |
| Debtors | £3m | £3.5m | £3.7m | £4m |
| Deferred income | £228k | £425k | £637k | £1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 12.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.4m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £34.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.1%
- 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
- ▲367%
- Now £872k
- Cash at bank
- ▲107%
- Now £37.1k
- Headcount
- ▲11%
- Now 20
- Deferred income
- ▲58%
- Now £1m
- Fixed assets
- ▲54%
- Now £275k
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
- Wismettac Harro Foods Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Interlock Investments Limited75–100%
- Sco-Fro Group 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).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £686k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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