Applied Nutritional Research Ltd
Registered name: APPLIED NUTRITIONAL RESEARCH LTD
Part of Anr Group Limited groupApplied Nutritional Research Ltd made £17.6m revenue and £1.6m profit in the year to 28 Feb 2025. read from filing text
Applied Nutritional Research Ltd’s revenue fell 3% to £17.6m in the year to 28 Feb 2025, with £1.6m profit and 96 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of homogenized food preparations and dietetic food” and is based in Blackwood; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Blackwood, Wales
- Age
- 18 yrs · since 2008
- 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: “On 4 February 2025, the entire shareholding of Applied Nutritional Research was acquired by ANR Group Limited, as part of a share for share exchange. The first accounting reference date for ANR Group ”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 29 Feb 2024 | 28 Feb 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £18.1m | £17.6m |
| Cost of sales | £10.4m | £9.6m |
| Gross profit | £7.8m | £8m |
| Operating profit | £2.6m | £2.1m |
| Profit before tax | £2.4m | £2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.9m | £1.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.9m | £1.6m |
| Staff costs | £3.1m | £3.7m |
| Employees (average) | 82 | 96 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 10.6% | 9.1% |
| Gross margin | 42.9% | 45.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £221k | £183k |
| Profit per employee | £23.5k | £16.6k |
| Cash conversion | −150.8% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼17.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲17.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £3.6m | £3.6m |
| Net assets | £7.6m | £7.9m |
| Fixed assets | £1.7m | £2m |
| Debtors | £1.5m | £1.2m |
| Deferred income | £266k | £181k |
| Cash from operations | −£4m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 45.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £183k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £16.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 11.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 7.1%
- 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
- ▲4%
- Now £7.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▲2%
- Now £3.6m
- Headcount
- ▲17%
- Now 96
- Deferred income
- ▼32%
- Now £181k
- Fixed assets
- ▲13%
- Now £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
- Anr Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Applied Nutritional Research Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (3)
- Anr Blend LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Anr Probrand LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Anr Snacks LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 28 Feb 2025 (profit £1.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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