BBF (HOLDINGS) LIMITED

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  2 PSCs ceased in last 24 months

  Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.

1. BBF (HOLDINGS) LIMITED 2018-03-21 → present
2. HAMSARD 3307 LIMITED 2013-03-12 → 2018-03-21

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Grant Thornton UK LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The directors have prepared base and sensitised cash flow projections for a period of 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements. ... Management are confident that facility headroom will remain above £4.0m until the expiry of the current facility in June 2026, from which point the Group will have sufficient liquidity to no longer require a financing facility. A group subsidiary does have an overdraft facility of £2,0m, which is used for day-to-day cash management. All covenants were complied with during the year. Accordingly, the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. BBF (HOLDINGS) LIMITED · parent
   1. Bright Blue Foods Limited 100% · UK · Manufacturing
   2. Cukiernia Mistrza Jana sp.z.o.o 100% · Poland · Manufacturing
   3. Sargents Bakeries Limited 100% · UK · Manufacturing

Significant events

• “In August 2025, a new warehouse facility in Blackburn has been commissioned to improve efficiencies further.”
• “Exceptional items of £3.8m (period to 29 June 2024: £3.2m) increased by £0.6m year-on-year, of which the main items were costs associated with a product withdrawal following a contamination incident together with strategic review costs.”
• “A new production facility in the Hull site was successfully commissioned.”
• “Total carbon emissions reduced by 9.6% year-on-year.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

20

last 12 months

Capital events

6

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  -5.1%

  £238,508,000 → £226,265,000

• Cash

  +24%

  £25,343,000 → £31,429,000

• Net assets

  +28%

  £28,191,000 → £36,080,000

• Employees

  -0.4%

  1,533 → 1,527

• Operating profit

  -27.2%

  £13,392,000 → £9,752,000

• Profit before tax

  -22.3%

  £13,134,000 → £10,199,000

• Wages

  +3.1%

  £40,088,000 → £41,343,000

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