BROWNS PLANTATIONS KENYA LIMITED

1. BROWNS PLANTATIONS KENYA LIMITED 2024-02-12 → present
2. JAMES FINLAY (KENYA) LIMITED 2002-08-30 → 2024-02-12
3. THE AFRICAN HIGHLANDS PRODUCE COMPANY LIMITED 1925-09-01 → 2002-08-30

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 101

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Deloitte LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The directors have, at the time of approving the financial statements, a reasonable expectation that the company and the Group have adequate resources to continue to operate for the foreseeable future. They therefore continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements. The Company's business activities, together with the factors likely to affect its future development and position, are set out in the Business Review section of the Strategic Report on page 2. Cash flow forecasts have been prepared up until 31-October 2025 and therefore covers at least twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements. These forecasts indicate that the company is expected to continue to generate positive cash flows on its own account for the foreseeable future and will be able to meet its obligations. The company has received a letter of support from its parents company LOLC Holdings PLC is willing and intending not be seeking repayment of amounts owed for the next 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements. The directors, having assessed the responses of the directors of the company's parent LOLC Holdings PLC to their enquiries have no reason to believe that a material uncertainty exists that may cast significant doubt about the ability of the Browns Plantations Kenya Limited (SC013800) to continue as a going concern or its ability to continue with the current banking arrangements.”

Group structure

1. BROWNS PLANTATIONS KENYA LIMITED · parent
   1. B Commodities ME (FZE)
   2. Sunbird Bioenergy (SL) Ltd
   3. Agri Technologies (SL) Ltd
   4. Lipton Teas and Infusions Kenya PLC
   5. Browns Tea Trading

Significant events

• “On 29th September 2024, Browns Plantations Kenya Limited handed over the botanicals business to Kijani Botanicals Limited.”
• “On 26 November 2023, the Branch discontinued its Tea Extracts division through a sale of the business.”

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

Filings

6

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

2

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +13.6%

  £33,337,000 → £37,873,000

• Cash

  -14.1%

  £5,686,000 → £4,887,000

• Net assets

  +25.3%

  £34,234,000 → £42,911,000

• Employees

  -8.7%

  5,346 → 4,882

• Operating profit

  +156.1%

  -£1,139,000 → £639,000

• Profit before tax

  +108.1%

  -£8,137,000 → £659,000

• Wages

  -8%

  £15,838,000 → £14,569,000

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