DAYBREAK FOODS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-07-31 (in 2mo)
Last filed for 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-26 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2026-01-12
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£5M
+28.8% vs 2023
Net assets
£7M
+30.5% vs 2023
Employees
19
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£2M
+115.5% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- DAYBREAK FOODS LIMITED 2009-02-13 → present
- SHOO 443 LIMITED 2009-01-12 → 2009-02-13
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-10-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-10-31 | 2024-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £47,415,264 | £41,963,635 | |
| Operating profit | £1,080,596 | £2,259,453 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,081,848 | £2,331,252 | |
| Net profit | £172,976 | £1,619,826 | |
| Cash | £3,990,577 | £5,138,119 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £5,644,671 | £7,322,192 | |
| Net assets | £5,584,575 | £7,286,208 | |
| Equity | £5,584,575 | £7,286,208 | |
| Average employees | 19 | 19 | |
| Wages | £922,251 | £1,400,097 |
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 | 2023-10-31 | 2024-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 2.3% | 5.4% | |
| Net margin | 0.4% | 3.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 19.1% | 30.9% | |
| Current ratio | 1.41x | 1.88x | |
| Interest cover | 66.98x | 1864.24x |
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
- Barnes Roffe LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors note that the company is trading adequately and has sufficient working capital and other finance available to continue trading for a period of not less than 12 months from the Statement of financial position date. As such, the directors believe that there are no significant uncertainties in their assessment of whether the business is a going concern and therefore have prepared the accounts on a going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “There have been no significant events affecting the Company since the year end.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOWTHWAITE, Nicholas | Secretary | 2010-03-03 | — | — |
| DOWTHWAITE, Nicholas John | Director | 2009-02-11 | Jul 1973 | British |
| JONES, Russell | Director | 2021-12-01 | Jan 1978 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOWTHWAITE, Katy Lee | Secretary | 2009-02-23 | 2010-03-03 |
| SHOOSMITHS SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2009-01-12 | 2009-02-11 |
| BROOKE, Russell | Director | 2010-08-30 | 2012-08-23 |
| DOWTHWAITE, Jennifer | Director | 2009-02-11 | 2017-01-20 |
| DOWTHWAITE, Joanna | Director | 2017-05-26 | 2025-08-12 |
| DOWTHWAITE, Martin | Director | 2009-02-11 | 2017-01-20 |
| SADLER, Sian | Director | 2009-01-12 | 2009-02-11 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daybreak Group Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2023-10-31 | Active |
| Mr Nicholas John Dowthwaite | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2023-10-31 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 74 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-26 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-08-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-02-25 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-25 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-24 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2024-03-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-04-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-02-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-01-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-03-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-02-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-03-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-01-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-04-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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 2024-10-31 vs 2023-10-31
-
Turnover
-11.5%
£47,415,264 £41,963,635
-
Cash
+28.8%
£3,990,577 £5,138,119
-
Net assets
+30.5%
£5,584,575 £7,286,208
-
Employees
0%
19 19
-
Operating profit
+109.1%
£1,080,596 £2,259,453
-
Profit before tax
+115.5%
£1,081,848 £2,331,252
-
Wages
+51.8%
£922,251 £1,400,097
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