Industry benchmark · SIC 47610
Retail sale of books in specialised stores
2,359 active companies are registered under this code; 20 publish a P&L we can benchmark.
Benchmarks
- Median revenue
- £473k
- Median profit
- £7k
- Profitable
- 55%
- Median staff
- 6
- Median margin
- 2.1%
- Top-quartile margin
- 8.2%
- Median gross margin
- 43.1%
- Median profit / staff
- £1.3k
Median
2.1%
Top quartile (p75)
8.2%
Median revenue growth: ▲10.5%
Ranked by profit
Top retail sale of books in specialised stores businesses
| # | Company | Revenue | Profit | Margin | Staff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daunt Books Limited Retail sale of books in specialised stores IndependentCapital-light+1 | £18.8m | £2.1m | 11% | 86 |
| 2 | Travel Buff Limited Retail sale of books in specialised stores Capital-lightOperating leverage+2 | £18.8m | £2.1m | 11% | 84 |
| 3 | Topping & Company Booksellers Limited Ely · Retail sale of books in specialised stores IndependentOperating leverage+1 | £9.3m | £1.5m | 16.4% | 93 |
| 4 | Forbidden Planet Limited Retail sale of books in specialised stores Operating leverage | £31.5m | £1.4m | 4.5% | 174 |
| 5 | Pbshop.co.uk Limited Fairford · Retail sale of books in specialised stores Capital-light | £21m | £705k | 3.4% | 42 |
| 6 | Shiatsu Medicine Academy Limited Belfast · Retail sale of books in specialised stores Small teamYoung and profitable | £568k | £88.2k | 15.5% | 0 |
| 7 | Marlen Media Entertainment Ltd Bangor · Retail sale of books in specialised stores IndependentSmall team+1 | £725k | £48.2k | 6.7% | 1 |
| 8 | Garsington Opera Enterprises Limited Stokenchurch · Retail sale of books in specialised stores Small team | £235k | £25.7k | 10.9% | 0 |
| 9 | Maldon Books Limited Burnham on Crouch · Retail sale of books in specialised stores Small teamCapital-light+1 | £287k | £21.1k | 7.3% | 3 |
| 10 | G.i. Productions Limited London · Retail sale of books in specialised stores IndependentSmall team+1 | £135k | £8.9k | 6.6% | 2 |
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