NATURES WAY FOODS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-03-31 (in 10mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-28
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-05 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-22
Watchouts
Cash
£500K
-43.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£24M
+37.6% vs 2024
Employees
1,254
-2.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£8M
+225.6% vs 2024
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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1 PSC 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 2025-03-28
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-29 | 2025-03-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £227,142,000 | £247,811,000 | |
| Operating profit | £3,703,000 | £8,745,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,514,000 | £8,186,000 | |
| Net profit | £2,204,000 | £6,362,000 | |
| Cash | £891,000 | £500,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £24,648,000 | £27,130,000 | |
| Net assets | £17,172,000 | £23,629,000 | |
| Equity | £17,172,000 | £23,629,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,284 | 1,254 | |
| Wages | £41,913,000 | £43,357,000 |
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 | 2024-03-29 | 2025-03-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.6% | 3.5% | |
| Net margin | 1.0% | 2.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 15.0% | 32.2% | |
| Current ratio | 0.74x | 0.90x | |
| Interest cover | 2.98x | 9.96x |
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
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Having reviewed the current performance and future trading prospect against the net current liability position, the directors consider that there is adequate funding available to be able to meet the company's liabilities as they fall due. Thus they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 21 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAMPION, Mark | Director | 2025-10-31 | Jul 1976 | American |
| COOK, Jeffrey | Director | 2025-10-31 | Sep 1956 | American |
| GILLILAND, Stewart Charles | Director | 2013-04-02 | Feb 1957 | British |
| LEACH, Howard Alexander | Director | 2025-10-31 | Feb 1958 | American |
| SMITH, Colin David | Director | 2018-04-16 | Jan 1970 | British |
Show 21 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANGMEAD, David Winston | Secretary | 1994-02-09 | 2012-06-18 |
| L & A SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1994-02-09 | 1994-02-09 |
| BARKER, Anita Marie | Director | 2018-10-15 | 2025-10-31 |
| BARRATT, Susan Verity | Director | 2006-03-01 | 2018-04-13 |
| COOK, Peter | Director | 2006-03-01 | 2008-02-06 |
| CRAIG, Andrew | Director | 2011-09-19 | 2011-12-02 |
| GREENWOOD, Ian David | Director | 2006-03-01 | 2006-08-14 |
| JONES, Benjamin David Rowe | Director | 2014-04-28 | 2020-10-30 |
| LANGMEAD, David Winston | Director | 1994-02-09 | 2025-10-31 |
| LANGMEAD, Robert Anthony | Director | 1994-02-09 | 2025-10-31 |
| MCCULLY, Angus | Director | 2013-01-07 | 2014-04-09 |
| MILLER, David Peter | Director | 2007-11-14 | 2008-07-22 |
| NAYLOR, Kate Heather | Director | 2012-01-16 | 2014-04-09 |
| PARR, Richard | Director | 2011-01-01 | 2020-07-23 |
| ROBERTS, Clare | Director | 2006-03-01 | 2011-09-30 |
| ROWBURY, Matthew Douglas | Director | 2008-04-01 | 2010-05-24 |
| SUMMERFIELD, Ian | Director | 2007-11-14 | 2011-01-01 |
| TRUSCOTT, Thomas James | Director | 2006-03-01 | 2009-06-15 |
| WEBB, Brian Maurice | Director | 2006-03-01 | 2007-11-07 |
| WILLIAMS, David Gay | Director | 2012-04-01 | 2025-10-31 |
| L & A REGISTRARS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1994-02-09 | 1994-02-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natures Way Foods Investment Company Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2023-11-17 | Active |
| Mr David Winston Langmead | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-10-31 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 157 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-12 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-11 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2025-11-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-15 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-10-15 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-10-15 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-08-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-17 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-12-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 14
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-28 vs 2024-03-29
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Turnover
+9.1%
£227,142,000 £247,811,000
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Cash
-43.9%
£891,000 £500,000
-
Net assets
+37.6%
£17,172,000 £23,629,000
-
Employees
-2.3%
1,284 1,254
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Operating profit
+136.2%
£3,703,000 £8,745,000
-
Profit before tax
+225.6%
£2,514,000 £8,186,000
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Wages
+3.4%
£41,913,000 £43,357,000
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