DAWN FOODS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-05-13 (in 1y)
Last made up 2026-04-29
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+33.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£13M
+3.7% vs 2023
Employees
152
-7.3% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£2M
+242.1% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- DAWN FOODS LIMITED 1997-01-01 → present
- DAWN FOODS (UK) LIMITED 1989-11-24 → 1997-01-01
- LEGIBUS 1450 LIMITED 1989-08-30 → 1989-11-24
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 | £55,687,362 | £56,993,188 | |
| Operating profit | £804,034 | £2,312,041 | |
| Profit before tax | £710,362 | £2,430,414 | |
| Net profit | £540,062 | £1,833,803 | |
| Cash | £1,868,751 | £2,493,518 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £13,058,590 | £13,960,071 | |
| Net assets | £12,780,110 | £13,247,558 | |
| Equity | £12,780,110 | £13,247,558 | |
| Average employees | 164 | 152 | |
| Wages | £6,092,203 | £6,481,024 |
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 | 1.4% | 4.1% | |
| Net margin | 1.0% | 3.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 6.2% | 16.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 47.1% | 48.7% | |
| Current ratio | 1.75x | 1.79x | |
| Interest cover | 6.85x | 983.01x |
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
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“As a result of the current reliance on inter-company funding, a letter of support has been obtained from the ultimate parent Dawn Foods, Inc for a period to the 31 December 2025. The directors have then made enquires of the group finance to ensure that there is sufficient headroom in the group debt facilities and on cov”
Group structure
- DAWN FOODS LIMITED · parent
- Millie's Foods Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Dawn Foods group completed the acquisition of Royal Steensma in February 2024 expanding the product portfolio of the group with good synergies between the Dawn products and Royal Steensma products that are expected to facilitate growth in Dawn's core products.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 17 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CORDELL, David Stewart | Secretary | 2018-06-01 | — | — |
| CLARKSON, Timothy Adam | Director | 2019-06-18 | Jul 1968 | British |
| FASCETTI, Riccardo | Director | 2020-04-30 | May 1967 | Italian |
| VERWEIJ, Steven Ernest | Director | 2016-12-01 | May 1961 | Dutch |
Show 17 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, Karl | Secretary | 2000-11-24 | 2016-12-01 |
| COOK, John | Secretary | 1993-07-01 | 2000-11-24 |
| FASCETTI, Riccardo | Secretary | 2016-12-01 | 2018-06-01 |
| WILLOW TAXATION & SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | — | 1993-07-01 |
| BARBER, Carrie Lynne | Director | 2004-03-01 | 2016-12-01 |
| CALFEE, Michael Grady | Director | 2016-12-01 | 2020-04-30 |
| CORDELL, David Stewart | Director | 2018-12-06 | 2019-06-18 |
| CROW, Philip Edward | Director | 1998-06-01 | 2000-11-24 |
| HAGYARD, Christopher James | Director | 1999-09-06 | 2000-11-24 |
| JENKINS, Christopher Alexander | Director | 2016-12-01 | 2018-12-06 |
| JONES, Miles | Director | — | 2016-12-01 |
| JONES, Ronald | Director | — | 2013-12-31 |
| JONES, Steven | Director | — | 1995-10-20 |
| NALLY, John | Director | — | 1998-06-01 |
| STAELENS, Peter | Director | — | 2004-03-01 |
| THURSTON, William | Director | 1995-05-09 | 2000-03-23 |
| UNSAL, Kemal Serhat | Director | 2014-01-01 | 2016-12-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 145 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-10 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-21 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-05-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-05-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-05-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-05-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-04-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2019-10-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2019-06-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2019-06-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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
+2.3%
£55,687,362 £56,993,188
-
Cash
+33.4%
£1,868,751 £2,493,518
-
Net assets
+3.7%
£12,780,110 £13,247,558
-
Employees
-7.3%
164 152
-
Operating profit
+187.6%
£804,034 £2,312,041
-
Profit before tax
+242.1%
£710,362 £2,430,414
-
Wages
+6.4%
£6,092,203 £6,481,024
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