BUMBLE HOLE EGGS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-20 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-06
Watchouts
Cash
£6M
+25% vs 2023
Net assets
£18M
+4.6% vs 2023
Employees
71
-1.4% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£1M
-58.9% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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3 PSCs ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £33,027,359 | £27,527,929 | |
| Operating profit | £3,243,036 | £946,341 | |
| Profit before tax | £3,417,552 | £1,405,619 | |
| Net profit | £2,469,506 | £969,249 | |
| Cash | £4,527,133 | £5,658,350 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £19,158,495 | £19,658,944 | |
| Net assets | £16,990,270 | £17,779,519 | |
| Equity | £16,990,270 | £17,779,519 | |
| Average employees | 72 | 71 | |
| Wages | £1,938,668 | £2,129,263 |
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 9.8% | 3.4% | |
| Net margin | 7.5% | 3.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 16.9% | 4.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 24.0% | 22.5% | |
| Current ratio | 3.20x | 3.34x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Ballards LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the director's 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 group's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the original financial statements were authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- BUMBLE HOLE EGGS LIMITED · parent
- Bumble Hole Foods Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The acquisition by the Hardeman Group in May 2025 strengthens its raw material supply stability and provides strategic backing for future expansion.”
- “While financial performance dipped in 2024 due to avian flu outbreaks and raw material cost increases, a strategic shift to short-term contracts in 2025 has allowed the business to better align pricing with market conditions.”
- “On 8 May 2025 the entire share capital of Bumble Hole Eggs Limited was sold to Hardeman Egg Group B.V from the Hewston Family.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BENNETT, Simon | Director | 2025-05-08 | Feb 1966 | British |
| HARDEMAN EGG GROUP B.V. | Corporate Director | 2025-05-08 | — | — |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEWSTON, Maureen Joan | Secretary | — | 2020-01-01 |
| JONES, Sharon Maria | Secretary | 2020-01-01 | 2025-05-08 |
| HEWSTON, Andrew William | Director | 2002-01-02 | 2025-05-08 |
| HEWSTON, David William | Director | — | 2020-01-01 |
| HEWSTON, Maureen Joan | Director | — | 2025-05-08 |
| JONES, Sharon Maria | Director | 2003-04-10 | 2025-05-08 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hendrik Arend Hardeman | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2025-05-08 | Active |
| Valerie Joy Hall | Individual | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors | 2020-10-22 | Ceased 2025-05-08 |
| Mrs Maureen Joan Hewston | Individual | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors | 2020-01-25 | Ceased 2025-05-08 |
| Christopher Hamlyn | Individual | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-05-08 |
| Mr David William Hewston | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-01-25 |
| Mr Andrew William Hewston | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-04-06 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 144 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-11-26 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-11-26 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-11-26 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-11-25 CC04 Statement of companys objects
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-10 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-11-26 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-11-26 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-11-26 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-11-25 | CC04 | change-of-constitution | Statement of companys objects | |
| 2025-11-24 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2025-11-24 | SH10 | capital | Capital variation of rights attached to shares | |
| 2025-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-05-19 | AP02 | officers | Appoint corporate director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-19 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-19 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-05-19 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-05-19 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-05-19 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-30 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 19
- Capital events
- 3
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 4
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
-16.7%
£33,027,359 £27,527,929
-
Cash
+25%
£4,527,133 £5,658,350
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Net assets
+4.6%
£16,990,270 £17,779,519
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Employees
-1.4%
72 71
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Operating profit
-70.8%
£3,243,036 £946,341
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Profit before tax
-58.9%
£3,417,552 £1,405,619
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Wages
+9.8%
£1,938,668 £2,129,263
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