ARLA FOODS INGREDIENTS UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-20 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-06
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£33M
-7.5% vs 2023
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£2M
-116.3% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- ARLA FOODS INGREDIENTS UK LIMITED 2014-01-10 → present
- GROOVENATION LIMITED 2010-10-12 → 2014-01-10
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £18,577,000 | £11,064,000 | |
| Operating profit | £8,059,000 | -£2,706,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £11,828,000 | -£1,931,000 | |
| Net profit | £9,586,000 | -£2,695,000 | |
| Cash | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £35,994,000 | £33,299,000 | |
| Net assets | £35,994,000 | £33,299,000 | |
| Equity | £35,994,000 | £33,299,000 | |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 43.4% | -24.5% | |
| Net margin | 51.6% | -24.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 22.4% | -8.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.74x | 2.44x | |
| Interest cover | 49.44x | -52.04x |
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
- 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. Therefore, the directors consider it appropriate to continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- ARLA FOODS INGREDIENTS UK LIMITED · parent
- Arla Foods Ingredients Taw Valley Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 31 August 2023, the company purchased the outstanding share capital of MV Ingredients Limited (subsequently renamed Arla Foods Ingredients Taw Valley Limited).”
- “Up to 28 May 2024, the company purchased raw whey from the AFL Taw Valley site. From this date, Arla Foods Ingredients Taw Valley Limited has purchased this whey directly from AFL.”
- “Up to 30 October 2024, the company purchased raw whey from the AFL Lockerbie site. From this date, AFL has processed the whey generated at this site.”
- “From the point these arrangements were implemented, the company was no longer directly involved in the processing and sale of whey-related products and now operates primarily as a holding company.”
- “During September 2024, mechanical issues with the plant used by the company's supplier to process its whey led to a reduced capacity to provide this service.”
- “A dividend of £8,000,000 was proposed and paid in March 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 17 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PADBERG, Sebastiaan Augustinus Johannes Maria | Director | 2024-01-01 | Apr 1971 | Dutch |
| RUTTER, Louis | Director | 2023-07-17 | Mar 1978 | British |
Show 17 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOAR, Tanjot | Secretary | 2010-10-12 | 2016-11-10 |
| AMIRAHMADI, Afshin | Director | 2018-07-01 | 2023-07-31 |
| ANDERSEN, Henrik Hojen | Director | 2014-04-24 | 2024-03-14 |
| BALL, Anne-Frances | Director | 2023-07-31 | 2024-01-01 |
| CUBEL, Luis | Director | 2024-03-14 | 2025-03-21 |
| DALSGAARD HOFF, Lars | Director | 2010-10-12 | 2014-04-24 |
| GIOERTZ-CARLSEN, Peter | Director | 2014-08-04 | 2017-08-28 |
| HAEGG, Anders Torbjoern | Director | 2015-01-13 | 2017-01-06 |
| HO, Simon Kin-Man | Director | 2019-03-27 | 2023-07-17 |
| KRISTIANSEN, Klaus | Director | 2014-04-24 | 2025-03-21 |
| LAURITZEN, Peter | Director | 2010-10-12 | 2014-08-04 |
| NIELSEN, Jesper | Director | 2014-04-24 | 2019-04-30 |
| PEDERSEN, Jan Egtved | Director | 2010-10-12 | 2015-01-13 |
| PIETRANGELI, Tomas Kirstein Brammer | Director | 2017-08-28 | 2018-07-01 |
| ROUND, Jonathon Charles | Director | 2010-10-12 | 2010-10-12 |
| VATNE, Ivar Andreas | Director | 2017-08-28 | 2019-03-27 |
| WILLIAMS, David Anthony James | Director | 2014-04-24 | 2017-08-28 |
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 80 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-03-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-10-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-04-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 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 | |
| 2022-10-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-27 | 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
-40.4%
£18,577,000 £11,064,000
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
-7.5%
£35,994,000 £33,299,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-133.6%
£8,059,000 -£2,706,000
-
Profit before tax
-116.3%
£11,828,000 -£1,931,000
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