Matford Arable Systems Limited
Registered name: MATFORD ARABLE SYSTEMS LIMITED
Part of Hutchinson Group Limited groupMatford Arable Systems Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Dec 2025 show net assets of £1.2m and 17 employees.
Matford Arable Systems Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 showed net assets of £1.2m and 17 employees. The company is classified under “agents selling agricultural raw materials, livestock, textile raw materials and semi-finished goods” and is based in Exeter; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Exeter, South West
- Age
- 35 yrs · since 1991
- 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 company's immediate parent undertaking is”
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Matford Arable Systems Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 17
- Net assets
- £1.2m
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 | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 17 | 14 | 17 | 17 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Headcount growth | — | ▼17.6% | ▲21.4% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £373k | £129k | £149k | £232k |
| Net assets | £1.6m | £1.7m | £1.4m | £1.2m |
| Fixed assets | £416k | £499k | £455k | £442k |
| Current assets | £2.4m | £2.3m | £2.2m | £1.6m |
| Debtors | £1m | £1.2m | £982k | £634k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
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
- ▼9%
- Now £1.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲56%
- Now £232k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 17
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼3%
- Now £442k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Hutchinson Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- H.L. Hutchinson Limited75–100%
- Matford Arable Systems (Holdings) Limited75–100%
- Matford Arable Systems 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 31 Dec 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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