BARTHOLOMEWS AGRI FOOD LIMITED

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  2 PSCs ceased in last 24 months

  Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.

1. BARTHOLOMEWS AGRI FOOD LIMITED 2003-12-09 → present
2. BARTHOLOMEWS(CHICHESTER)LIMITED 1944-06-17 → 2003-12-09

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Moore (South) LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “The reduction in turnover was due to the Autumn of 2023 which was one of wettest on record, (similar to 2019) which prevented the Autumn sowing of Arable crops, this wet Autumn led not only to a down turn in sales of inputs in the first half of 2024 but also the second worse wheat harvest since records began in 1984.”
• “Considering the perceived threat from the introduction of Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) to see plantings back to these levels is encouraging for our future. The new Labour government has now stopped funding for the recently introduced SFI and declared this current iteration of Agricultural support will be replaced with one with a better balance of Environmental and production considerations.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

10

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

2

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  -19.2%

  £131,714,992 → £106,460,325

• Cash

  +1%

  £9,057,806 → £9,144,152

• Net assets

  +10.9%

  £9,979,938 → £11,064,817

• Employees

  +3.2%

  62 → 64

• Operating profit

  -28.9%

  £472,083 → £335,509

• Profit before tax

  -4.8%

  £382,720 → £364,411

• Wages

  -3.6%

  £2,845,270 → £2,743,619

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers