Carrs Pasties Limited
Registered name: CARRS PASTIES LIMITED
Carrs Pasties Limited made £8.3m revenue and £318k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Carrs Pasties Limited’s revenue grew 5% to £8.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £318k profit and 129 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes”; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- North West
- Age
- 51 yrs · since 1975
- 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: “Carrs Pasties Holdings Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £7.3m | £7.9m | £8.3m |
| Cost of sales | — | £4.4m | £4.5m | £4.8m |
| Gross profit | — | £2.9m | £3.4m | £3.5m |
| Operating profit | — | £489k | £412k | £447k |
| Profit before tax | — | £412k | £289k | £331k |
| Profit after tax | — | £182k | £200k | £318k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £182k | £200k | £318k |
| Staff costs | — | £2.7m | £3.2m | £3.3m |
| Employees (average) | 96 | 134 | 135 | 129 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | 2.5% | 2.5% | 3.8% |
| Gross margin | — | 39.9% | 42.6% | 42.3% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £54.6k | £58.3k | £64.2k |
| Profit per employee | — | £1.4k | £1.5k | £2.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲7.6% | ▲5.2% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲9.8% | ▲59.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲39.6% | ▲0.8% | ▼4.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £340k | £724k | £410k | £705k |
| Net assets | £2.5m | £2.5m | £2.4m | £2.4m |
| Fixed assets | £3.7m | £4.4m | £5m | £4.9m |
| Current assets | £817k | £1.2m | £974k | £1.5m |
| Debtors | £131k | £136k | £159k | £167k |
| Deferred income | — | £166k | £214k | £192k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 42.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £64.2k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 59.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 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
- ▲1%
- Now £2.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲72%
- Now £705k
- Headcount
- ▼4%
- Now 129
- Deferred income
- ▼10%
- Now £192k
- Fixed assets
- ▼2%
- Now £4.9m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- Bury Bakehouse LimitedFigures not disclosed
Minority corporate shareholders
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £318k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 14 Oct 2026
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