Baird Foods Limited
Registered name: BAIRD FOODS LIMITED
Part of Baird Foods Eot Trustee Limited groupBaird Foods Limited made £51m revenue and £1.4m profit in the year to 31 Oct 2025. read from filing text
Baird Foods Limited’s revenue grew 14% to £51m in the year to 31 Oct 2025, with £1.4m profit and 13 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of meat and meat products” and is based in Burton-on-Trent; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Burton-on-Trent, East Midlands
- Age
- 30 yrs · since 1996
- 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 largest and smallest group in which results of the company are consolidated is that headed by the parent company, Baird Foods Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Oct 2023 | 31 Oct 2024 | 31 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £44.8m | £44.5m | £51m |
| Cost of sales | £39.7m | £40.5m | £46.7m |
| Gross profit | £5.1m | £4m | £4.3m |
| Operating profit | £2.9m | £1.5m | £1.8m |
| Profit before tax | £2.7m | £1.6m | £1.8m |
| Profit after tax | £2.1m | £1.3m | £1.4m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.1m | £1.3m | £1.4m |
| Staff costs | £1.1m | £1m | £1.1m |
| Employees (average) | 14 | 15 | 13 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.6% | 2.9% | 2.7% |
| Gross margin | 11.4% | 8.9% | 8.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £3.2m | £3m | £3.9m |
| Profit per employee | £147k | £86.3k | £107k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼0.7% | ▲14.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼37.1% | ▲7.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲7.1% | ▼13.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £5.5m | £2.1m | £2.5m |
| Net assets | £9.7m | £6.5m | £6.5m |
| Fixed assets | £270k | £283k | £209k |
| Current assets | £14.8m | £12.2m | £12.2m |
| Debtors | £4.2m | £4.6m | £4.6m |
| Deferred income | £530k | £495k | £362k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 8.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £3.9m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £107k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.1%
- 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 £6.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲21%
- Now £2.5m
- Headcount
- ▼13%
- Now 13
- Deferred income
- ▼27%
- Now £362k
- Fixed assets
- ▼26%
- Now £209k
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
- Baird Foods Eot Trustee Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Baird Foods Holdings Limited75–100%
- Baird Foods Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Baird Foods Services 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 Oct 2025 (profit £1.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 23 Oct 2026
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