Fresh Service Limited
Registered name: FRESH SERVICE LIMITED
Part of Porter Group Holdings Limited groupFresh Service Limited made £14.8m revenue and £194k profit in the year to 29 Mar 2025.
Fresh Service Limited’s revenue was £14.8m in the year to 29 Mar 2025, with £194k profit and 112 employees. The company is classified under “operation of warehousing and storage facilities for land transport activities” and is based in Dartford; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Dartford, South East
- Age
- 58 yrs · since 1968
- 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 | 26 Nov 2022 | 29 Mar 2024 | 30 Mar 2024 | 29 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.2m | £19.2m | £19.2m | £14.8m |
| Cost of sales | £10.1m | −£13.9m | £13.9m | −£10.6m |
| Gross profit | £4.2m | £5.2m | £5.2m | £4.2m |
| Operating profit | £442k | £567k | £567k | £263k |
| Profit before tax | £443k | £508k | £508k | £274k |
| Profit after tax | £388k | £363k | £363k | £194k |
| Profit (best available) | £388k | £363k | £363k | £194k |
| Staff costs | £3.2m | — | £4.7m | — |
| Employees (average) | 115 | 119 | 119 | 112 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2.7% | 1.9% | 1.9% | 1.3% |
| Gross margin | 29.3% | 27.3% | 27.3% | 28.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £124k | £161k | £161k | £132k |
| Profit per employee | £3.4k | £3k | £3k | £1.7k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £936k | — | £921k | — |
| Net assets | £2.1m | — | £2.5m | — |
| Fixed assets | £186k | — | £144k | — |
| Current assets | £3.6m | — | £3.8m | — |
| Debtors | £1.8m | — | £2.2m | — |
| Deferred income | £890k | — | £266k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 28.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £132k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.7k
- 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
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- —
- Now 112
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Porter Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Fresh Service Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- E.w.t. (Dartford) LimitedRev. £10.2m · Profit £99.7k
- Porter Group LimitedRev. — · Profit £112k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 29 Mar 2025 (profit £194k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 23 Oct 2026
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