Dartmouth Foods Ltd
Registered name: DARTMOUTH FOODS LTD
Part of Dartmouth Holdings Ltd groupDartmouth Foods Ltd made £20.2m revenue and £526k profit in the year to 31 May 2025.
Dartmouth Foods Ltd’s revenue fell 10% to £20.2m in the year to 31 May 2025, with £526k profit and 116 employees. The company is classified under “production of meat and poultry meat products” and is based in Plymouth; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Plymouth, South West
- Age
- 26 yrs · since 2000
- 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: “Dartmouth Holdings Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 May 2022 | 31 May 2023 | 31 May 2024 | 31 May 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £19.9m | £19.8m | £22.4m | £20.2m |
| Cost of sales | £16.3m | £16m | £17.8m | £15.2m |
| Gross profit | £3.6m | £3.8m | £4.6m | £5.1m |
| Operating profit | −£129k | £447k | £693k | £962k |
| Profit before tax | −£278k | £180k | £381k | £716k |
| Profit after tax | −£194k | £122k | £265k | £526k |
| Profit (best available) | −£194k | £122k | £265k | £526k |
| Staff costs | £4.6m | £4.2m | £4.6m | £4.1m |
| Employees (average) | 115 | 122 | 133 | 116 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | −1% | 0.6% | 1.2% | 2.6% |
| Gross margin | 18% | 19.3% | 20.4% | 25% |
| Revenue per employee | £173k | £162k | £168k | £174k |
| Profit per employee | −£1.7k | £1k | £2k | £4.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼0.7% | ▲13.1% | ▼9.5% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲116.9% | ▲98% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲6.1% | ▲9% | ▼12.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £53.4k | £384k | £70.6k | £177k |
| Net assets | £856k | £979k | £1.2m | £1.8m |
| Fixed assets | £4.5m | £4.8m | £4.6m | £4.2m |
| Current assets | £5.6m | £6.8m | £5.3m | £5.1m |
| Debtors | £4.1m | £3.9m | £3.4m | £2.8m |
| Deferred income | £1.2m | £1.1m | £947k | £1.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £174k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 20.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.9%
- 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
- ▲42%
- Now £1.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▲150%
- Now £177k
- Headcount
- ▼13%
- Now 116
- Deferred income
- ▲19%
- Now £1.1m
- Fixed assets
- ▼9%
- Now £4.2m
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
- Dartmouth Holdings Ltd (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Dartmouth Foods Ltdthis 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 May 2025 (profit £526k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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