Foodnet Limited
Registered name: FOODNET LIMITED
Part of Foodnet Holdings Limited groupFoodnet Limited made £57.2m revenue and £4.1m profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Foodnet Limited’s revenue grew 2% to £57.2m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £4.1m profit and 18 employees. The company is classified under “other food services” and is based in Amersham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Amersham, South East
- Age
- 36 yrs · since 1990
- 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: “The ultimate parent undertaking and the smallest and largest group to consolidate these financial statements is”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2022 | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £44.8m | £52.4m | £56.3m | £57.2m |
| Cost of sales | £39.3m | £47.2m | £48m | £49.7m |
| Gross profit | £5.5m | £5.2m | £8.3m | £7.5m |
| Operating profit | £4.4m | £3.9m | £6.3m | £5.3m |
| Profit before tax | £4.4m | £4m | £6.4m | £5.5m |
| Profit after tax | £3.6m | £3.2m | £4.8m | £4.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.6m | £3.2m | £4.8m | £4.1m |
| Staff costs | £773k | £773k | £1.5m | £1.7m |
| Employees (average) | 16 | 16 | 16 | 18 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 7.9% | 6.1% | 8.6% | 7.2% |
| Gross margin | 12.3% | 9.8% | 14.7% | 13.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £2.8m | £3.3m | £3.5m | £3.2m |
| Profit per employee | £222k | £199k | £301k | £228k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲16.9% | ▲7.4% | ▲1.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼10.1% | ▲51.1% | ▼14.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% | ▲12.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3.1m | £3.9m | £5.2m | £8m |
| Net assets | £8.3m | £9.5m | £12.2m | £14.3m |
| Fixed assets | £66.6k | £54.7k | £51.3k | £42.7k |
| Current assets | £16.7m | £18.9m | £20m | £22.8m |
| Debtors | £8.2m | £9m | £7.9m | £8.9m |
| Deferred income | £166k | £126k | £109k | £431k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £3.2m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £228k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 15.6%
- 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
- ▲18%
- Now £14.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲54%
- Now £8m
- Headcount
- ▲13%
- Now 18
- Deferred income
- ▲297%
- Now £431k
- Fixed assets
- ▼17%
- Now £42.7k
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
- Foodnet Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Foodnet Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Apr 2025 (profit £4.1m), 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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