International Food Link Limited
Registered name: INTERNATIONAL FOOD LINK LIMITED
Part of Woodland Group Holdings Limited groupInternational Food Link Limited made £13.3m revenue and £248k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
International Food Link Limited’s revenue grew 12% to £13.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £248k profit and 25 employees. The company is classified under “agents involved in the sale of food, beverages and tobacco” and is based in Maldon; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Maldon, East of England
- Age
- 29 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 company is under the control of Woodland Global Ltd, a company registered 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 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £12.8m | £11.9m | £13.3m |
| Cost of sales | £11.2m | £10.6m | £11.4m |
| Gross profit | £1.5m | £1.3m | £1.9m |
| Operating profit | £118k | −£214k | £267k |
| Profit before tax | £125k | −£243k | £248k |
| Profit (best available) | £125k | −£243k | £248k |
| Staff costs | £810k | £741k | £1m |
| Employees (average) | 19 | 19 | 25 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1% | −2% | 1.8% |
| Gross margin | 12.1% | 11.1% | 14.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £673k | £626k | £534k |
| Profit per employee | £6.6k | −£12.8k | £9.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼6.9% | ▲12.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼294.9% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲31.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.1m | £853k | £460k |
| Net assets | £1.6m | £1.4m | £1.6m |
| Debtors | £1.2m | £1.6m | £2.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 14.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £534k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £9.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 16.1%
- 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
- ▲12%
- Now £1.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▼46%
- Now £460k
- Headcount
- ▲32%
- Now 25
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Woodland Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Woodland Group Limited75–100%
- Woodland Global Ltd50–75%
- International Food Link Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Woodland Logistics LtdRev. £27.1m · Profit £363k
- Woodland Entertainment 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 £248k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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