Beckett's Foods Limited
Registered name: BECKETT'S FOODS LIMITED
Part of Tonnies Holding Gmbh & Co Kg groupBeckett's Foods Limited made £169m revenue and £108k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Beckett's Foods Limited’s revenue fell 8% to £169m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £108k profit and 555 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale of meat and meat products in specialised stores” and is based in Coventry; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Coventry, West Midlands
- Age
- 38 yrs · since 1988
- 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: “CPC Foods 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 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £187m | £185m | £169m |
| Cost of sales | £165m | £162m | £150m |
| Gross profit | £21.8m | £22.8m | £19.7m |
| Operating profit | £618k | £472k | −£698k |
| Profit before tax | £761k | £839k | −£300k |
| Profit after tax | £522k | £1m | £108k |
| Profit (best available) | £522k | £1m | £108k |
| Staff costs | £20m | £21m | £22.1m |
| Employees (average) | 568 | 555 | 555 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.1% |
| Gross margin | 11.7% | 12.3% | 11.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £328k | £332k | £305k |
| Profit per employee | £919 | £1.8k | £195 |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼1.1% | ▼8.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲91.9% | ▼89.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼2.3% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £22.2m | £19.6m | £13.3m |
| Net assets | £38.3m | £29.1m | £29.3m |
| Fixed assets | £6.2m | £5.5m | £9.2m |
| Current assets | £62.2m | £53.8m | £48.7m |
| Debtors | £22.6m | £24.4m | £23.4m |
| Deferred income | £10.6m | £10.7m | £12.4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 11.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £305k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £195
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 5.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 7.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.8%
- 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
- ▲0%
- Now £29.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼32%
- Now £13.3m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 555
- Deferred income
- ▲16%
- Now £12.4m
- Fixed assets
- ▲68%
- Now £9.2m
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
- Tonnies Holding Gmbh & Co Kg (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- CPC Foods Limited75–100%
- Beckett's Foods Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Henry Hirst (Provisions) LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (7)
- Direct Table Foods LimitedRev. £142m · Profit £1.8m
- C & K Meats LimitedRev. £87.8m · Profit −£9.2m
- Tican (Chilled) LimitedRev. £84.6m · Profit £6m
- Peddars Pigs LimitedRev. £75.9m · Profit £2.8m
- Pro-Pak Foods LimitedRev. £58.4m · Profit −£2.3m
- Cheale Meats LimitedRev. £8.3m · Profit £369k
- Porcus Pig Care 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit £108k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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