Nationwide Produce PLC
Registered name: NATIONWIDE PRODUCE PLC
Part of Nationwide Produce Group Holdings Limited groupNationwide Produce PLC made £204m revenue and £3.1m profit in the year to 30 May 2025. read from filing text
Nationwide Produce PLC’s revenue grew 10% to £204m in the year to 30 May 2025, with £3.1m profit and 228 employees. The company is classified under “other food services” and is based in Southport; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Southport, North West
- Age
- 40 yrs · since 1985
- Type
- Public 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 company's immediate parent is Nationwide Produce Holdings Plc, incorporated in England and Wales. The company's ultimate parent is Nationwide Produce Group Holdings Limited, incorporated in Englan”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 2 Jun 2023 | 31 May 2024 | 30 May 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £177m | £186m | £204m |
| Cost of sales | £157m | £161m | £177m |
| Gross profit | £19.3m | £24.9m | £26.8m |
| Operating profit | £2.4m | £4.1m | £4.8m |
| Profit before tax | £2.1m | £3.5m | £4.2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.7m | £2.7m | £3.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.7m | £2.7m | £3.1m |
| Staff costs | £12.1m | £13.5m | £15.6m |
| Employees (average) | 198 | 218 | 228 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1% | 1.4% | 1.5% |
| Gross margin | 10.9% | 13.4% | 13.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £892k | £855k | £895k |
| Profit per employee | £8.7k | £12.2k | £13.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲5.5% | ▲9.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲53.5% | ▲18% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲10.1% | ▲4.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2.4m | £2.4m | £2m |
| Net assets | £12.4m | £14.8m | £17.9m |
| Fixed assets | £12.8m | £14.6m | £21.3m |
| Current assets | £32m | £32.5m | £35.8m |
| Debtors | £25.3m | £25.2m | £26.4m |
| Deferred income | £694k | £1.3m | £578k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £895k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £13.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 10.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13%
- 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
- ▲21%
- Now £17.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▼18%
- Now £2m
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 228
- Deferred income
- ▼56%
- Now £578k
- Fixed assets
- ▲46%
- Now £21.3m
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
- Nationwide Produce Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Nationwide Produce Holdings PLC75–100%
- Nationwide Produce PLCthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Anglia Growing Partnership LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Crab Apple Way Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (1)
- Richmond Farms 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 May 2025 (profit £3.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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