ARLA FOODS CHEESE COMPANY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-12 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-05-29
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£93M
+7% vs 2023
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£8M
-41.6% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- ARLA FOODS CHEESE COMPANY LIMITED 2014-12-29 → present
- MILK LINK DISTRIBUTION LIMITED 2002-05-29 → 2014-12-29
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £24,008,000 | £18,089,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | £13,976,000 | £8,155,000 | |
| Net profit | £16,156,000 | £6,116,000 | |
| Cash | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £246,775,000 | £252,891,000 | |
| Net assets | £86,775,000 | £92,891,000 | |
| Equity | £86,775,000 | £92,891,000 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| Wages | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 67.3% | 33.8% |
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 101 Reduced Disclosure Framework
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have concluded that the company has adequate resources and support available to continue in operational existence for the period to 30 June 2026. Substantially all of the company's liabilities relate to "160m loan notes in issue, held by a fellow UK group undertaking, part of a long-term funding strategy. Directors confident no repayment needed.”
Significant events
- “The dairy industry has seen volatility in prices recently. The price of milk increasing during 2024, but the financing and maturation fees are calculated each month based on the average price for the previous rolling 12 months. The higher revenue seen in the prior year reflects the high prices seen at the end of 2022, and the lower revenue seen in the current year reflecting the lower prices seen in 2023.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PADBERG, Sebastiaan Augustinus Johannes Maria | Director | 2024-01-01 | Apr 1971 | Dutch |
| PHILLIPS, John Steven | Director | 2017-01-12 | Aug 1962 | British |
| RUTTER, Louis | Director | 2023-07-17 | Mar 1978 | British |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOAR, Tanjot | Secretary | 2014-12-16 | 2016-11-10 |
| YOUNG, Karen Bridget | Secretary | 2002-05-29 | 2014-12-16 |
| NQH (CO SEC) LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2002-05-29 | 2002-05-29 |
| AJERIO, Kingsley | Director | 2017-04-03 | 2019-06-28 |
| AMIRAHMADI, Afshin | Director | 2018-07-01 | 2023-07-31 |
| BALL, Anne-Frances | Director | 2023-07-31 | 2024-01-01 |
| GLEN, Nairn | Director | 2002-06-28 | 2011-03-24 |
| HAEGG, Anders Torbjoern | Director | 2015-01-13 | 2017-01-12 |
| HO, Simon Kin-Man | Director | 2019-03-27 | 2023-07-17 |
| NICHOLLS, Barry John Leonard | Director | 2002-06-28 | 2008-03-28 |
| PEDERSEN, Jan Egtved | Director | 2012-10-01 | 2015-10-01 |
| PIETRANGELI, Tomas Kirstein Brammer | Director | 2017-04-03 | 2018-07-01 |
| SMIDDY, Timothy Noel | Director | 2011-03-23 | 2012-10-01 |
| VATNE, Ivar Andreas | Director | 2017-04-03 | 2019-03-27 |
| WILLIAMS, David Anthony James | Director | 2002-05-29 | 2017-04-03 |
| NQH LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2002-05-29 | 2002-05-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arla Foods Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 120 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-08-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-05-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-05-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-06-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-05-27 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2020-10-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
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
-24.7%
£24,008,000 £18,089,000
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
+7%
£86,775,000 £92,891,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Profit before tax
-41.6%
£13,976,000 £8,155,000
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