KINGFISHER FOODS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-29
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-24 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-10
Watchouts
Cash
£21K
-57.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£14M
-30.7% vs 2024
Employees
37
+8.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£5M
+36.3% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 4 times since incorporation
- KINGFISHER FOODS LIMITED 2024-04-09 → present
- LOVERING FOODS LIMITED 2005-08-09 → 2024-04-09
- LOVERING FOODS PLC 2003-09-08 → 2005-08-09
- K.J. LOVERING AND COMPANY LIMITED 1979-12-31 → 2003-09-08
- HAMTOCK LIMITED 1979-06-07 → 1979-12-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-29
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-30 | 2025-03-29 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £81,564,000 | £88,799,000 | |
| Operating profit | £4,485,000 | £5,940,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £3,663,000 | £4,994,000 | |
| Net profit | £2,749,000 | £3,730,000 | |
| Cash | £49,000 | £21,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £20,898,000 | £14,482,000 | |
| Net assets | £20,898,000 | £14,482,000 | |
| Equity | £20,898,000 | £14,482,000 | |
| Average employees | 34 | 37 | |
| Wages | £2,859,000 | £3,456,000 |
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 | 2024-03-30 | 2025-03-29 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 5.5% | 6.7% | |
| Net margin | 3.4% | 4.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 21.5% | 41.0% | |
| Current ratio | 1.90x | 1.59x | |
| Interest cover | 5.46x | 6.28x |
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
- S&W Partners Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Board has reviewed the future projections in preparing the financial statements, the financial position and future prospects of the company, and given the financial strength within the Statement of Financial Position and the company's future order book, the directors have concluded that it is appropriate to continue to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “The Company paid an interim dividend of £3 million in April; there have been no other significant events affecting the Company since year end.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHEPHERD, Michael Robert Charles | Secretary | 2005-08-12 | — | British |
| SEXTON, John Patrick | Director | 2005-08-12 | May 1959 | British |
| SHEPHERD, Michael Robert Charles | Director | 2005-08-12 | Dec 1966 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERBERT, Roger Henry John | Secretary | 1991-10-01 | 2003-07-21 |
| LOVERING, Brian Sinclair | Secretary | 2003-07-21 | 2005-08-12 |
| LOVERING, Brian Sinclair | Secretary | — | 1991-10-01 |
| ANDREWS, Michael David | Director | 2005-01-01 | 2006-01-13 |
| BISHOP, James Edward | Director | 1991-10-01 | 2005-05-27 |
| KENDALL, Keith Malcolm | Director | 2004-02-13 | 2007-06-30 |
| LOVERING, Barbara Mary | Director | — | 1993-01-12 |
| LOVERING, Brian Sinclair | Director | — | 2010-03-23 |
| LOVERING, Kenneth James | Director | — | 2005-08-12 |
| LYONS, Ian Jeffrey | Director | 1991-10-01 | 1992-09-15 |
| SWAN, Michael | Director | 2004-02-13 | 2015-07-09 |
| WELLBELOVE, Stephen | Director | 1991-10-01 | 1996-11-27 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nutfield Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2025-03-28 | Active |
| Nutfield Holdings Trustees Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2019-03-07 | Ceased 2019-03-07 |
| Lovering Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-03-28 |
| Mr John Patrick Sexton | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-03-07 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 177 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-04-09 CERTNM Certificate change of name company
- 2024-04-09 CONNOT Change of name notice
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-04-02 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-02 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-09 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-04-09 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2024-04-09 | CONNOT | change-of-name | Change of name notice | |
| 2024-01-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-01-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-03-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-01-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-04-30 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2020-04-30 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control |
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-29 vs 2024-03-30
-
Turnover
+8.9%
£81,564,000 £88,799,000
-
Cash
-57.1%
£49,000 £21,000
-
Net assets
-30.7%
£20,898,000 £14,482,000
-
Employees
+8.8%
34 37
-
Operating profit
+32.4%
£4,485,000 £5,940,000
-
Profit before tax
+36.3%
£3,663,000 £4,994,000
-
Wages
+20.9%
£2,859,000 £3,456,000
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