HOULTON MEATS LIMITED

Latest accounts filed cover 2024-09-30; financial figures currently reflect up to 2024-09-27.

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

Grosvenor Partners LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. HOULTON MEATS LIMITED · parent
   1. Rayleigh Cold Store Limited 100% · United Kingdom · Cold Storage
   2. Seastar Limited 90% · United Kingdom
   3. Stanford-Le-Hope Builders Merchants Limited 100% · United Kingdom · Builders Merchants

Significant events

• “Company turnover was approximately the same as in the previous year. This was primarily due to the sales price and tonnage being the same. Consistency in results, which has been achieved, historically fits with future plans. No dividend was declared or paid in the year.”
• “Currently the lack of supply of certain produce is pushing the raw cost of meat up which we have been able to forward onto customers maintaining the same gross profit levels.”

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

Filings

2

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +11.3%

  £19,989,752 → £22,250,932

• Cash

  -67.8%

  £465,931 → £150,108

• Net assets

  +1.3%

  £3,759,332 → £3,809,368

• Employees

  0%

  44 → 44

• Operating profit

  +51.8%

  £109,471 → £166,154

• Profit before tax

  +77.6%

  £69,374 → £123,230

• Wages

  -3.5%

  £1,392,715 → £1,343,916

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

Heads up: a more recent set of accounts has been filed but isn't yet reflected here — the figures above are older than the company's latest filing.