Whitelink Seafoods Limited
Registered name: WHITELINK SEAFOODS LIMITED
Whitelink Seafoods Limited made £75.8m revenue and £2.4m profit in the year to 28 Dec 2025.
Whitelink Seafoods Limited’s revenue grew 7% to £75.8m in the year to 28 Dec 2025, with £2.4m profit and 249 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs” and is based in Aberdeenshire; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- Age
- 34 yrs · since 1992
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 28 Dec 2023 | 28 Dec 2024 | 28 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £76m | £70.6m | £75.8m |
| Cost of sales | £69.8m | £64.2m | £67.1m |
| Gross profit | £6.2m | £6.4m | £8.7m |
| Operating profit | £1.6m | £2m | £3.6m |
| Profit before tax | £1.3m | £1.5m | £3.3m |
| Profit after tax | £919k | £1.1m | £2.4m |
| Profit (best available) | £919k | £1.1m | £2.4m |
| Staff costs | £7.3m | £7.9m | £8.9m |
| Employees (average) | 191 | 190 | 249 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.2% | 1.5% | 3.2% |
| Gross margin | 8.2% | 9.1% | 11.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £398k | £372k | £304k |
| Profit per employee | £4.8k | £5.6k | £9.8k |
| Cash conversion | 129.7% | 102.2% | 67.8% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼7.1% | ▲7.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲16.5% | ▲128.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼0.5% | ▲31.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £915k | £832k | £1.6m |
| Net assets | £15.2m | £16.1m | £18.3m |
| Fixed assets | £12.7m | £14m | £13.5m |
| Current assets | £19.5m | £19m | £19.4m |
| Debtors | £9m | £8.6m | £8.3m |
| Deferred income | £918k | £1.3m | £1.2m |
| Cash from operations | £2m | £2m | £2.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 11.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £304k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £9.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 67.8%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 17.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 10.9%
- 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
- ▲14%
- Now £18.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲98%
- Now £1.6m
- Headcount
- ▲31%
- Now 249
- Deferred income
- ▼7%
- Now £1.2m
- Fixed assets
- ▼4%
- Now £13.5m
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 28 Dec 2025 (profit £2.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 22 Oct 2026
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