CARGILL BIOINDUSTRIAL UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-05-31 (this month)
Last filed for 2024-05-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-01 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-18
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£384M
Equity attributable
Employees
268
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£34M
Period ending 2024-05-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- CARGILL BIOINDUSTRIAL UK LIMITED 2023-11-01 → present
- EQUUS UK TOPCO LTD 2021-09-24 → 2023-11-01
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-05-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-05-31 | 2024-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £421,210,000 | £171,566,000 | |
| Operating profit | £21,783,000 | -£33,548,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£16,071,000 | -£33,920,000 | |
| Net profit | -£12,037,000 | -£26,336,000 | |
| Cash | £5,717,000 | £2,900,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £413,539,000 | £390,270,000 | |
| Net assets | £410,385,000 | £384,071,000 | |
| Equity | £410,385,000 | £384,071,000 | |
| Average employees | 245 | 268 | |
| Wages | £17,699,000 | £15,869,000 |
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 | 2023-05-31 | 2024-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 5.2% | -19.6% | |
| Net margin | -2.9% | -15.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 5.3% | -8.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.61x | 1.98x | |
| Interest cover | 20.65x | -85.15x |
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
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue to operate as a going concern for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements. Thus they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- CARGILL BIOINDUSTRIAL UK LIMITED · parent
- Cargill Bioindustrial UK Holding Limited 100%
- Equus Sales India Private Ltd 0%
- Equus Mexico No.3, S.A. de C.V. 0%
- IonPhasE Oy 100%
- Cargill Bioindustrial (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. 100%
- Rewitec GmbH 100%
- Cargill Bioindustrial B.V. 100%
- Cargill Bioindustrial Germany GmbH 100%
- Cargill Trading FZE 100%
- Cargill Bioindustrial Italy S.r.L. 100%
- Equus Japan KK 0%
- Cargill Bioindustrial Singapore Pte. Ltd 100%
- Equus USA, Inc. 100%
- Equus Columbia S.A.S. 0%
Significant events
- “An indirect subsidiary of the company (Cargill Bioindustrial B.V.) previously operated under a contract manufacturer agreement for the company. The contract manufacturer agreement ended during the financial year, in November 2023. The indirect subsidiary was converted from a contract manufacturer to a licenced manufacturer.”
- “In November 2023, the company also sold the trade and operating assets of the South Korean branch to Cargill Agri Purina, Inc. The South Korean branch has been closed.”
- “The company also sold 100% of the shares it held in Equus Sales India Private Ltd and Equus Mexico No. 3 S.A. de C.V.”
- “The year ended 31 May 2024 included the implementation of a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. In addition to the direct costs associated with the ERP implementation, the plant was shutdown for two weeks.”
- “On 2 December 2024, Cargill Inc. announced the implementation of Cargill 2030, a strategy which will see a reduction in the global workforce of circa 5%. To date, Cargill Bioindustrial UK Limited has had 6 employees affected by the restructuring.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOBDAY, Ian Stuart | Director | 2024-09-06 | Jun 1985 | British |
| SHEPHERD, Claire Margaret | Director | 2022-06-30 | May 1983 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| LO'BUE, Dena Michelle | Secretary | 2022-09-22 | 2025-02-06 |
| BROPHY, Thomas Michael | Director | 2021-09-24 | 2022-06-30 |
| MILLINGTON, Michael Joseph Paul | Director | 2024-03-20 | 2024-09-06 |
| TWEDDLE, Graeme Andrew | Director | 2021-09-24 | 2024-02-21 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cargill Velocity Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Significant influence | 2022-06-30 | Active |
| Croda International Public Limited Company | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-09-24 | Ceased 2022-06-30 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 31 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-01-20 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-11-28 MA Memorandum articles
- 2023-11-20 CONNOT Change of name notice
- 2023-11-01 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-24 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-07-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-28 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-02-06 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-03-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-20 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-11-28 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-11-20 | CONNOT | change-of-name | Change of name notice | |
| 2023-11-01 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2023-07-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-12-13 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2022-12-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type dormant | |
| 2022-11-10 | RP04SH01 | capital | Second filing capital allotment shares | |
| 2022-10-31 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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 2024-05-31 vs 2023-05-31