DAIRY SOLUTIONS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-02 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-19
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£978K
+29.6% vs 2023
Net assets
£3M
+4.2% vs 2023
Employees
59
+9.3% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£184K
-72.9% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- DAIRY SOLUTIONS LIMITED 2002-09-02 → present
- FAYREFIELD DAIRY SOLUTIONS LIMITED 2002-08-19 → 2002-09-02
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £16,754,752 | £21,827,744 | |
| Operating profit | £660,479 | £154,897 | |
| Profit before tax | £679,867 | £184,121 | |
| Net profit | £507,562 | £130,847 | |
| Cash | £755,280 | £978,498 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £3,245,390 | £3,436,737 | |
| Net assets | £3,142,390 | £3,273,237 | |
| Equity | £3,142,390 | £3,273,237 | |
| Average employees | 54 | 59 | |
| Wages | £1,389,714 | £1,640,768 |
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 | 3.9% | 0.7% | |
| Net margin | 3.0% | 0.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 20.4% | 4.5% | |
| Current ratio | 2.56x | 2.02x | |
| Interest cover | 224.27x | — |
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
- Deloitte 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 at least the next twelve months after the approval of the financial statements. Thus, they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Significant events
- “There have been no material post balance sheet events (2023: same).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUSTIN, Philip Anthony | Secretary | 2016-09-22 | — | — |
| CHATTERS, Michael David John | Director | 2020-06-01 | May 1963 | British |
| KERR, Niel John Douglas | Director | 2002-11-18 | Aug 1977 | British |
| LYON, Alexander Murray | Director | 2022-07-05 | Oct 1988 | British |
| MCFARLANE, David Neil | Director | 2005-08-12 | Sep 1962 | British |
| WEAVER, Ashley Clinton Darrel | Director | 2016-11-01 | Apr 1966 | British |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEECH, Sydney John | Secretary | 2013-06-01 | 2016-04-06 |
| MCFARLANE, David Neil | Secretary | 2002-08-19 | 2002-09-10 |
| SADLER, James | Secretary | 2002-09-10 | 2013-06-01 |
| BEECH, Sydney John | Director | 2005-01-18 | 2016-04-06 |
| CICHOSZ, George | Director | 2005-01-18 | 2005-08-12 |
| HARPER, Daniel David | Director | 2002-11-18 | 2005-01-18 |
| HILTON, Nicholas Anthony | Director | 2011-06-30 | 2019-08-08 |
| IRVINE, Douglas Forbes | Director | 2002-11-18 | 2005-01-10 |
| IRVINE, John Alastair | Director | 2002-11-18 | 2005-01-10 |
| KERR, John Douglas | Director | 2002-08-19 | 2011-06-30 |
| MCFARLANE, David Neil | Director | 2002-11-18 | 2005-01-18 |
| MEAUDRE, Hugues Bernard | Director | 2018-10-01 | 2020-05-29 |
| O'LEARY, Kevin Francis | Director | 2007-04-12 | 2014-09-24 |
| POWELL COOK, Neale Alan | Director | 2005-01-10 | 2007-03-26 |
| SMITH, Andrew James | Director | 2005-01-10 | 2015-05-31 |
| TAYLOR, Mark Garfield | Director | 2015-08-11 | 2018-07-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr John Douglas Kerr | Individual | ownership-of-shares-50-to-75-percent-as-firm | 2016-08-19 | Ceased 2016-08-19 |
| Lactalis Mclelland Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50% | 2016-08-19 | Active |
| Fayrefield Foods Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 50–75% | 2016-08-19 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 100 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2024-08-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2023-09-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-12-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2022-09-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-10-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-08-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-12-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-10-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2020-08-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-06-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2020-06-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-06-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2019-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small |
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
+30.3%
£16,754,752 £21,827,744
-
Cash
+29.6%
£755,280 £978,498
-
Net assets
+4.2%
£3,142,390 £3,273,237
-
Employees
+9.3%
54 59
-
Operating profit
-76.5%
£660,479 £154,897
-
Profit before tax
-72.9%
£679,867 £184,121
-
Wages
+18.1%
£1,389,714 £1,640,768
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