Celtica Foods Limited
Registered name: CELTICA FOODS LIMITED
Celtica Foods Limited made £23.4m revenue and £657k profit in the year to 31 Oct 2025.
Celtica Foods Limited’s revenue grew 15% to £23.4m in the year to 31 Oct 2025, with £657k profit and 86 employees. The company is classified under “processing and preserving of meat” and is based in Llanelli; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Llanelli, Wales
- Age
- 23 yrs · since 2002
- Type
- Private Limited Company
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&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £17.4m | £20.3m | £23.4m |
| Cost of sales | £15.3m | £18.2m | −£21.3m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £2.1m | £2.1m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £1m | £929k |
| Profit before tax | £1.1m | £975k | £897k |
| Profit after tax | £833k | £699k | £657k |
| Profit (best available) | £833k | £699k | £657k |
| Staff costs | £2.2m | £2.8m | — |
| Employees (average) | 54 | 78 | 86 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.8% | 3.4% | 2.8% |
| Gross margin | 12.3% | 10.6% | 8.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £323k | £260k | £272k |
| Profit per employee | £15.4k | £9k | £7.6k |
| Cash conversion | 64.6% | 28.3% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲16.5% | ▲15.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼16.1% | ▼5.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲44.4% | ▲10.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £428k | £21.3k | — |
| Net assets | £4.4m | £5.1m | — |
| Fixed assets | £3.4m | £3.7m | — |
| Current assets | £4.3m | £5.7m | — |
| Debtors | £1.8m | £3.4m | — |
| Deferred income | £182k | £212k | — |
| Cash from operations | £763k | £286k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 8.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £272k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £7.6k
- 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
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲10%
- Now 86
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Oct 2025 (profit £657k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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