Alan Baybutt & Sons Limited
Registered name: ALAN BAYBUTT & SONS LIMITED
Part of Baybutt Investments Limited groupAlan Baybutt & Sons Limited made £17.1m revenue and £1m profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Alan Baybutt & Sons Limited’s revenue grew 4% to £17.1m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £1m profit and 136 employees. The company is classified under “growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers” and is based in Preston; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Preston, North West
- Age
- 23 yrs · since 2003
- 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 | 30 Apr 2022 | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.6m | £14.2m | £16.4m | £17.1m |
| Cost of sales | £9.4m | £10.7m | £12.2m | £13.4m |
| Gross profit | £2.1m | £3.5m | £4.2m | £3.7m |
| Operating profit | £310k | £1.1m | £1.3m | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | £292k | £1.1m | £1.2m | £1.1m |
| Profit after tax | £204k | £938k | £905k | £1m |
| Profit (best available) | £204k | £938k | £905k | £1m |
| Staff costs | £4m | £4.4m | £5.3m | £5.8m |
| Employees (average) | 115 | 115 | 127 | 136 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.8% | 6.6% | 5.5% | 6% |
| Gross margin | 18.6% | 24.4% | 25.7% | 21.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £100k | £124k | £129k | £126k |
| Profit per employee | £1.8k | £8.2k | £7.1k | £7.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲23% | ▲15.5% | ▲4.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲358.7% | ▼3.5% | ▲13.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲10.4% | ▲7.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £76 | £61 | £216 | £153 |
| Net assets | £1.7m | £2m | £2.3m | £2.6m |
| Fixed assets | £658k | £1.1m | £1.2m | £926k |
| Current assets | £5.3m | £4.9m | £5.5m | £6.3m |
| Debtors | £304k | £295k | £188k | £345k |
| Deferred income | £24.5k | £16.1k | £16.1k | £16.1k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 21.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £126k
- 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
- 5.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 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
- ▲13%
- Now £2.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▼29%
- Now £153
- Headcount
- ▲7%
- Now 136
- Deferred income
- 0%
- Now £16.1k
- Fixed assets
- ▼22%
- Now £926k
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
- Baybutt Investments Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Baybutt Holdings Limited75–100%
- Alan Baybutt & Sons 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 30 Apr 2025 (profit £1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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