GREEN LABEL FOODS LTD.
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2025-02-28
Confirmation statement due
2027-04-23 (in 11mo)
Last made up 2026-04-09
Watchouts
Cash
£449K
-87.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£32M
-6% vs 2024
Employees
486
+6.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£12M
-22.7% 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.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-02-28
| Metric | Trend | 2024-02-29 | 2025-02-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £169,824,642 | £185,487,101 | |
| Operating profit | £9,975,966 | £12,142,159 | |
| Profit before tax | £15,197,833 | £11,743,031 | |
| Net profit | £13,041,314 | £8,749,358 | |
| Cash | £3,713,599 | £449,222 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £37,429,364 | £36,235,073 | |
| Net assets | £34,190,305 | £32,139,663 | |
| Equity | £34,190,305 | £32,139,663 | |
| Average employees | 456 | 486 | |
| Wages | £16,379,850 | £19,065,439 |
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 | 2024-02-29 | 2025-02-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 5.9% | 6.5% | |
| Net margin | 7.7% | 4.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 26.7% | 33.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 33.4% | 35.6% | |
| Current ratio | 2.21x | 2.03x | |
| Interest cover | 12.99x | 30.13x |
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
- Larking Gowen LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' 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 Company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAFON, Bruno | Director | 2025-12-02 | May 1972 | French |
| MORLEY, Christopher David | Director | 2019-12-13 | Dec 1965 | British |
| WOODGER, Daniel Ryan Robert | Director | 2025-12-02 | Jul 1995 | British |
| WRIGHT, Joanne Michelle | Director | 2021-07-01 | Sep 1980 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUCHANAN, Geoffrey Maurice | Secretary | 1999-04-09 | 2025-12-02 |
| SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1999-04-09 | 1999-04-09 |
| BUCHANAN, Geoffrey Maurice | Director | 1999-04-09 | 2025-12-02 |
| BUCHANAN, William Edwin | Director | 1999-04-09 | 2025-12-02 |
| HARLEY, Stephen Andrew | Director | 2018-05-24 | 2025-12-02 |
| SMITH, Raymond | Director | 2016-05-06 | 2018-10-12 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Label Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2020-03-01 | Active |
| Mr William Edwin Buchanan | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-03-01 |
| Mr Geoffrey Maurice Buchanan | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-03-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 123 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-12-09 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-12-09 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-09 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-12-09 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-12-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-03 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-03 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2025-09-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-11-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-30 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 12
- Capital events
- 0
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-02-28 vs 2024-02-29
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Turnover
+9.2%
£169,824,642 £185,487,101
-
Cash
-87.9%
£3,713,599 £449,222
-
Net assets
-6%
£34,190,305 £32,139,663
-
Employees
+6.6%
456 486
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Operating profit
+21.7%
£9,975,966 £12,142,159
-
Profit before tax
-22.7%
£15,197,833 £11,743,031
-
Wages
+16.4%
£16,379,850 £19,065,439
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