Ginger Pig Limited
Registered name: GINGER PIG LIMITED
Part of Chelsea Estates Limited groupGinger Pig Limited made £14.9m revenue and a £7.3k loss in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Ginger Pig Limited’s revenue grew 6% to £14.9m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with a loss of £7.3k and 82 employees. The company is classified under “production of meat and poultry meat products” and is based in Banbury; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Banbury, South East
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.1m | £14m | £14.9m |
| Cost of sales | £10.1m | £10.4m | £11.2m |
| Gross profit | £3m | £3.6m | £3.7m |
| Operating profit | £75.5k | £328k | £115k |
| Profit before tax | £23.8k | £275k | £44.1k |
| Profit after tax | £60.9k | £188k | −£7.3k |
| Profit (best available) | £60.9k | £188k | −£7.3k |
| Staff costs | £3m | £3.3m | £3.8m |
| Employees (average) | 83 | 86 | 82 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.5% | 1.3% | −0.1% |
| Gross margin | 22.9% | 25.9% | 24.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £158k | £163k | £182k |
| Profit per employee | £733 | £2.2k | −£89 |
| Cash conversion | 263.1% | −340.8% | −321.4% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲7.2% | ▲6.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲208.9% | ▼103.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.6% | ▼4.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £850k | £981k | £622k |
| Net assets | £1.4m | £1.6m | £1.6m |
| Fixed assets | £1.9m | £2.5m | £2.9m |
| Current assets | £1.8m | £2.2m | £1.7m |
| Debtors | £189k | £157k | £185k |
| Deferred income | £321k | £117k | £223k |
| Cash from operations | £199k | −£1.1m | −£371k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 24.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £182k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£89
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −321.4%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 19.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.2%
- 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 £1.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▼37%
- Now £622k
- Headcount
- ▼5%
- Now 82
- Deferred income
- ▲90%
- Now £223k
- Fixed assets
- ▲17%
- Now £2.9m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Chelsea Estates Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Ginger Pig 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 Mar 2025 (profit −£7.3k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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