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Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet · London

Perlego

Perlego Limited

Losses 2 years runningTurnover up 248%Staff up 48%ActiveLatest figures: 2022As filed (group accounts)10 years on the register

Private limited company registered in London, classed under “Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet”.

Headline figures

FY to Apr 2022 · As filed (group accounts)

Turnover

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Profit after tax

−£11.4m

Net assets

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Cash

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Employees

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Retained reserves

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What the numbers say

4 findings from the figures, in plain English

Written by rules from the figures on this page. Not a forecast or a credit opinion.

History

Pro
£20202021*2022
Profit after tax−£11.4m
Turnover
Net assets
Cash
Employees
Retained reserves

Every figure for all 3 years

“—” means we did not find the figure in a source; it is never filled with an estimate. * Restated: the next year's accounts printed different figures for this year, and those later figures are shown.

Balance sheet and ratios

From the filed balance sheets · £

Balance sheet202020212022
Fixed assets
Current assets
of which debtors
of which cash
Creditors due within a year
Net current assets
Net assets
Ratios
Profit marginProfit after tax as a share of turnover
Return on equityProfit after tax as a share of net assets
Current ratioCurrent assets for every £1 owed within a year
Cash ratioCash for every £1 owed within a year
Creditors to assetsEverything owed to creditors as a share of fixed plus current assets
Turnover per employeeTurnover divided by average staff
Debtor daysDays of turnover owed by customers at the year end

7 balance-sheet lines and 7 ratios, every year

A ratio appears only for years where every line it needs was filed. Lines are as tagged in the accounts; nothing is added up or estimated.

Questions people ask

›What does Perlego do?

Private limited company registered in London, classed under “Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet”. In its own words: “Save up to 90% on textbooks. Read over 1.5 million professional and academic ebooks in one simple space.”

›How much turnover does Perlego make?

Answered in the full report

›Is Perlego profitable?

No: it made a loss after tax of £11.4m in the year to 30 April 2022, its latest filed accounts.

›How many people work at Perlego?

Answered in the full report

›Where is Perlego based?

Its registered office is 1 Waterhouse Square, 138 Holborn, London, EC1N 2ST, in London.

›When was Perlego founded?

Perlego Limited was incorporated on 29 April 2016.

›Is Perlego still trading?

The register lists Perlego Limited as active.