Stonegate Farmers Limited
Registered name: STONEGATE FARMERS LIMITED
Part of Stonegate Group Holdings Ltd groupStonegate Farmers Limited made £180m revenue and a £1.2m loss in the year to 27 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Stonegate Farmers Limited’s revenue grew 9% to £180m in the year to 27 Sep 2025, with a loss of £1.2m and 558 employees. The company is classified under “raising of poultry” and is based in Chippenham; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Chippenham, South West
- Age
- 63 yrs · since 1962
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2023 | 28 Sep 2024 | 27 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £151m | £166m | £180m |
| Cost of sales | £141m | £158m | £175m |
| Gross profit | £10m | £7.9m | £5.4m |
| Operating profit | £2.6m | £1.9m | −£877k |
| Profit before tax | £2.2m | £1.6m | −£1.5m |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £1.3m | −£1.2m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £1.3m | −£1.2m |
| Staff costs | £19.3m | £21m | £22m |
| Employees (average) | 503 | 509 | 558 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.8% | 0.8% | −0.7% |
| Gross margin | 6.7% | 4.8% | 3% |
| Revenue per employee | £300k | £326k | £323k |
| Profit per employee | £2.2k | £2.5k | −£2.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲9.8% | ▲8.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲12.4% | ▼193.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.2% | ▲9.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £313k | £77k | £1.3m |
| Net assets | £15.8m | £16.8m | £15.4m |
| Fixed assets | £13m | £13.7m | £14.4m |
| Current assets | £37m | £43.7m | £42.4m |
| Debtors | £14.8m | £15.4m | £16.1m |
| Deferred income | £7.7m | £7.3m | £6.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £323k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£2.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 8.9%
- 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
- ▼9%
- Now £15.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲1619%
- Now £1.3m
- Headcount
- ▲10%
- Now 558
- Deferred income
- ▼14%
- Now £6.3m
- Fixed assets
- ▲5%
- Now £14.4m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Stonegate Group Holdings Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Stonegate Food Group Limited75–100%
- Stonegate Farmers Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Stonegate Agriculture LimitedRev. £18m · Profit £426k
Sister companies (1)
- Clarence Court LtdRev. £62.2m · Profit £302k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 27 Sep 2025 (profit −£1.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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