Alfred Price & Sons,limited
Registered name: ALFRED PRICE & SONS,LIMITED
Alfred Price & Sons,limited made £18.6m revenue and £1.9m profit in the year to 31 Aug 2025. read from filing text
Alfred Price & Sons,limited’s revenue fell 18% to £18.6m in the year to 31 Aug 2025, with £1.9m profit and 24 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of fruit and vegetables” and is based in Ormskirk; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Ormskirk, North West
- Age
- 88 yrs · since 1938
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “During the year the”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Aug 2022 | 31 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £30.2m | £29.9m | £22.7m | £18.6m |
| Cost of sales | £29.1m | £28.5m | £21.8m | £18m |
| Gross profit | £1.1m | £1.4m | £903k | £540k |
| Operating profit | −£941k | −£544k | −£1m | £2.1m |
| Profit before tax | −£942k | −£535k | −£1m | £2.2m |
| Profit after tax | −£942k | −£535k | −£747k | £1.9m |
| Profit (best available) | −£942k | −£535k | −£747k | £1.9m |
| Staff costs | £2.2m | £1.7m | £1.5m | £1.4m |
| Employees (average) | 45 | 41 | 31 | 24 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | −3.1% | −1.8% | −3.3% | 10.4% |
| Gross margin | 3.7% | 4.8% | 4% | 2.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £671k | £729k | £733k | £773k |
| Profit per employee | −£20.9k | −£13.1k | −£24.1k | £80.8k |
| Cash conversion | — | — | — | 16.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼0.9% | ▼24.1% | ▼18.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼8.9% | ▼24.4% | ▼22.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2.1m | £1.7m | £1.1m | £5.4m |
| Net assets | £4.5m | £4m | £3.2m | £5.1m |
| Fixed assets | £1.2m | £1.2m | £1.1m | £2.4k |
| Current assets | £6.9m | £6m | £4.8m | £8.2m |
| Debtors | £3.7m | £3.4m | £2.7m | £2.3m |
| Deferred income | £40.3k | £38.9k | £92.4k | £113k |
| Cash from operations | £573k | £336k | £651k | £349k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 10.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 2.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £773k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £80.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 16.3%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.2%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▲57%
- Now £5.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲373%
- Now £5.4m
- Headcount
- ▼23%
- Now 24
- Deferred income
- ▲22%
- Now £113k
- Fixed assets
- ▼100%
- Now £2.4k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Minority corporate shareholders
- Da Price 1997 Discretionary Settlement Trust (registered outside the UK register) 25–50%
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Aug 2025 (profit £1.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 11 Oct 2026
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