Shoe Zone plc
Shoe Zone plc is a UK footwear retailer selling affordable, own-label and branded footwear for the whole family through physical stores (269 at year end, including 201 larger "new format" stores) and digital channels (shoezone.com, Amazon, eBay). The group sources the vast majority of product from overseas manufacturers in China, and to a lesser extent India and Europe, and is in the midst of a multi-year programme to refit/relocate its store estate into a new larger format.
FY2025 in sixty seconds
year to 27 Sept 2025 · approved 12 Jan 2026 · 87 pages · Companies House
Shoe Zone plc, a UK retailer of affordable family footwear, sold less and earned much less in the year to 27 September 2025. Revenue fell to £149.1m from £161.3m, and profit before tax dropped to £3.3m from £10.1m.
The company ended the year with fewer shops, though online sales edged up. The report points to weak consumer confidence, higher shipping container prices early in the year, a February promotion, and rises in National Insurance and the National Living Wage. A £0.9m gain from currency movements lifted the result: without it, profit before tax was £2.4m.
Cash at the year end rose to £5.9m, with no bank loan drawn, helped by lower spending on stores and stock. There was no dividend, after one the year before. Management said trading stayed difficult early in the new year, with revenue below forecast and the National Living Wage rising further, and expects profit before tax of about £1.0m for the year to 3 October 2026. The directors raised no doubt about the company's ability to keep trading, and the auditor's opinion was clean.
UK store sales from 269 trading stores (185→201 new-format stores)
Total revenues £149.1m (2024: £161.3m), down 7.6%; UK stores revenue £112.658m; new format stores generated £88.3m revenue and £9.1m contribution
page 3Container/shipping prices
Product margins were 61.0% (2024: 62.8%), down due to higher container prices in H1 and February 2025 BOGOF promotion; container prices subsequently improved
page 5Trading conditions remained challenging in Q1 of the new financial year, with revenue down on forecast; the Government's November 2025 budget included an additional increase in the National Living Wage. In light of these conditions, the Board expects a profit before tax of approximately £1.0m for the financial year ended 3 October 2026.
page 6£nil dividend declared for FY25 (both interim and final), with the Company expecting to maintain prudent cash management; £8.042m dividend was paid in FY24 but none in FY25.
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6 figures restated in a later report
Every figure is read again from the following year’s report: 320 confirmed, 20 differ, 6 restated.
| Line | Year | As first filed | In the later report |
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| FY2023 | not printedFY2023 report | £0FY2024 report | |
| FY2023 | not printedFY2023 report | £0FY2024 report | |
| FY2023 | £3.9mFY2023 report | £16.5mFY2024 report | |
| FY2023 | £19.0mFY2023 report | £14.5mFY2024 report | |
| FY2023 | £36.9mFY2023 report | £32.4mFY2024 report | |
| FY2023 | £2.6mFY2023 report | £2.7mFY2024 report |