LUBBORN CHEESE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-16
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1K
0% vs 2023
Net assets
£5M
+10.1% vs 2023
Employees
72
+7.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£639K
+26.3% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- LUBBORN CHEESE LIMITED 1982-02-08 → present
- LONGMILE SECURITIES LIMITED 1978-10-27 → 1982-02-08
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 | £17,130,000 | £17,238,000 | |
| Operating profit | £505,000 | £662,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £506,000 | £639,000 | |
| Net profit | £411,000 | £413,000 | |
| Cash | £1,000 | £1,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,466,000 | £5,105,000 | |
| Net assets | £4,108,000 | £4,521,000 | |
| Equity | £4,108,000 | £4,521,000 | |
| Average employees | 67 | 72 | |
| Wages | £2,417,000 | £2,582,000 |
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 | 2.9% | 3.8% | |
| Net margin | 2.4% | 2.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 11.3% | 13.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 42.6% | 35.9% | |
| Current ratio | 1.02x | 0.91x | |
| Interest cover | — | 25.46x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors are confident that the company has adequate resources to continue its operations for the future. The company has prepared projections for at least 12 months from the date of approving the financial statements which show that the company will continue to be able to meet its liabilities as they fall due. As a key country within the wider Lactalis group, the parent company will continue to support and grow the UK businesses and have provided a letter of support to this effect.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 19 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PRISM COSEC LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2018-08-20 | — | — |
| CHATTERS, Michael David John | Director | 2020-06-01 | May 1963 | British |
| GOPAL, Naigee | Director | 2009-06-06 | Aug 1962 | British |
Show 19 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALE, Debbora Ann | Secretary | 1992-08-04 | 2005-10-14 |
| NORTHWOOD, Rosemary Helen | Secretary | — | 1992-08-04 |
| SMITH, Andrew James | Secretary | 2009-06-06 | 2010-01-04 |
| BSDR CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2005-10-06 | 2009-06-06 |
| DAVID VENUS & COMPANY LLP | Corporate Secretary | 2010-01-04 | 2018-08-20 |
| COOKSEY, Andrew Thomas | Director | 2005-08-04 | 2009-03-31 |
| FARNHAM, James Stuart | Director | 2001-08-22 | 2003-08-31 |
| FEILDEN, Michael Oswald | Director | — | 2000-12-22 |
| FEILDEN, Piers William Trehearn | Director | — | 2002-12-31 |
| GARVEY, Richard Anthony | Director | 2000-12-01 | 2003-06-30 |
| GRANTCHESTER, Christopher John, Lord | Director | 2003-07-31 | 2009-06-06 |
| MAXWELL-SCOTT, Ian | Director | — | 2000-12-01 |
| MEAUDRE, Hugues Bernard | Director | 2018-07-31 | 2020-06-01 |
| MITCHELL, John Craig | Director | 2002-11-01 | 2004-03-26 |
| SMITH, Andrew James | Director | 2009-06-06 | 2014-07-14 |
| SMITH, Malcolm | Director | 2003-07-31 | 2005-05-31 |
| STIRLING, Alfred Patrick | Director | — | 2000-12-01 |
| STRICKLAND, Mark William | Director | 2003-07-31 | 2009-06-06 |
| TAYLOR, Mark Garfield | Director | 2014-07-14 | 2018-07-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lactalis Mclelland Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 225 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-01-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-01-08 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-08-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2023-06-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2022-06-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-09-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-06-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-06-22 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2021-05-28 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date | |
| 2020-11-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-06-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-06-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-06-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-06-01 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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
-
Turnover
+0.6%
£17,130,000 £17,238,000
-
Cash
0%
£1,000 £1,000
-
Net assets
+10.1%
£4,108,000 £4,521,000
-
Employees
+7.5%
67 72
-
Operating profit
+31.1%
£505,000 £662,000
-
Profit before tax
+26.3%
£506,000 £639,000
-
Wages
+6.8%
£2,417,000 £2,582,000
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