Tican (Chilled) Limited
Registered name: TICAN (CHILLED) LIMITED
Part of Tonnies Holding Gmbh & Co Kg groupTican (Chilled) Limited made £84.6m revenue and £6m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Tican (Chilled) Limited’s revenue grew 6% to £84.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £6m profit and 95 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of meat and meat products” and is based in Walsall; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Walsall, West Midlands
- 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: “CPC Foods Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £80m | £84.6m |
| Cost of sales | £70.3m | £73.4m |
| Gross profit | £9.7m | £11.2m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £5.5m |
| Profit before tax | £2.2m | £6m |
| Profit after tax | £1.6m | £6m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.6m | £6m |
| Staff costs | £3.9m | £4.3m |
| Employees (average) | 100 | 95 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 2% | 7.1% |
| Gross margin | 12.2% | 13.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £800k | £890k |
| Profit per employee | £16.2k | £63.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲5.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲270% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £13.1m | £17.2m |
| Net assets | £8.9m | £14.9m |
| Fixed assets | £419k | £302k |
| Current assets | £23.5m | £28m |
| Debtors | £8.2m | £7.7m |
| Deferred income | £529k | £791k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £890k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £63.2k
- 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
- 0.9%
- 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
- ▲68%
- Now £14.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▲31%
- Now £17.2m
- Headcount
- ▼5%
- Now 95
- Deferred income
- ▲50%
- Now £791k
- Fixed assets
- ▼28%
- Now £302k
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
- Tonnies Holding Gmbh & Co Kg (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- CPC Foods Limited75–100%
- Tican (Chilled) Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (7)
- Beckett's Foods LimitedRev. £169m · Profit £108k
- Direct Table Foods LimitedRev. £142m · Profit £1.8m
- C & K Meats LimitedRev. £87.8m · Profit −£9.2m
- Peddars Pigs LimitedRev. £75.9m · Profit £2.8m
- Pro-Pak Foods LimitedRev. £58.4m · Profit −£2.3m
- Cheale Meats LimitedRev. £8.3m · Profit £369k
- Porcus Pig Care 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 £6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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