Nicol Hughes Foodservice Ltd
Registered name: NICOL HUGHES FOODSERVICE LTD
Part of Bid Corporation Limited groupNicol Hughes Foodservice Ltd made £11.4m revenue and £1.4m profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025. read from filing text
Nicol Hughes Foodservice Ltd’s revenue grew 1% to £11.4m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £1.4m profit and 52 employees. The company is classified under “other food services” and is based in Slough; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Slough, South East
- Age
- 66 yrs · since 1960
- 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: “The immediate parent company of the”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jan 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 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) | £9.3m | £17.2m | £11.3m | £11.4m |
| Cost of sales | £5.9m | £11m | £7.3m | £7.3m |
| Gross profit | £3.3m | £6.2m | £3.9m | £4.1m |
| Operating profit | £965k | £2.5m | £1.3m | £1.4m |
| Profit before tax | £948k | £2.5m | £1.3m | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | — | £2m | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | £948k | £2m | £1.3m | £1.4m |
| Staff costs | £1.6m | £2.3m | £1.6m | £1.7m |
| Employees (average) | 61 | 54 | 53 | 52 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 10.2% | 11.7% | 11.7% | 12.1% |
| Gross margin | 36% | 35.9% | 34.9% | 35.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £152k | £318k | £212k | £220k |
| Profit per employee | £15.5k | £37.2k | £24.8k | £26.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | — | ▲1.4% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▲5.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | — | ▼1.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.1m | £1.4m | £1.5m | £1.5m |
| Net assets | £1.3m | £2.2m | £2.6m | £2.4m |
| Debtors | — | £783k | £809k | £1.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 12.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 35.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £220k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £26.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11.4%
- 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
- ▼8%
- Now £2.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲3%
- Now £1.5m
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 52
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Bid Corporation Limited (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Bidcorp (UK) Limited75–100%
- Caterfood Holdings Limited75–100%
- Nicol Hughes Foodservice Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (8)
- Harvest Fine Foods LimitedRev. £43m · Profit £1.2m
- Caterfood (South West) LimitedRev. £29.2m · Profit £883k
- Elite Fine Foods LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Food Angles LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Motec (SW) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Quality Cuisine (South West) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Thomas Ridley and Son,limitedFigures not disclosed
- Turner & Price LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £1.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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