Yorkshire Premier Meat Limited
Registered name: YORKSHIRE PREMIER MEAT LIMITED
Part of Osi Group Llc groupYorkshire Premier Meat Limited made £67.6m revenue and £2.4m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Yorkshire Premier Meat Limited’s revenue grew 8% to £67.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £2.4m profit and 200 employees. The company is classified under “processing and preserving of meat” and is based in South Kirkby Pontefract; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- South Kirkby Pontefract, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 13 yrs · since 2012
- 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: “The immediate parent undertaking is Kirkby 2017 Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £63.8m | £62.5m | £67.6m |
| Cost of sales | £54m | £52m | £55.2m |
| Gross profit | £9.7m | £10.5m | £12.4m |
| Operating profit | £3.6m | £2.9m | £3.5m |
| Profit before tax | £3.6m | £2.8m | £3.2m |
| Profit after tax | £3.3m | £2.4m | £2.4m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.3m | £2.4m | £2.4m |
| Staff costs | £6.4m | £6.9m | £8.1m |
| Employees (average) | 155 | 182 | 200 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 5.2% | 3.9% | 3.5% |
| Gross margin | 15.3% | 16.8% | 18.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £411k | £343k | £338k |
| Profit per employee | £21.5k | £13.4k | £11.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼2.1% | ▲8.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼26.8% | ▼3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲17.4% | ▲9.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £29.1k | £79.8k | £1.7k |
| Net assets | £3.6m | £3.3m | £802k |
| Fixed assets | £2.2m | £2.7m | £2.8m |
| Current assets | £11.6m | £12.4m | £17.2m |
| Debtors | £6m | £6.7m | £9.9m |
| Deferred income | £1.2m | £1.5m | £1.9m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 18.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £338k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 4.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.6%
- 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
- ▼75%
- Now £802k
- Cash at bank
- ▼98%
- Now £1.7k
- Headcount
- ▲10%
- Now 200
- Deferred income
- ▲26%
- Now £1.9m
- Fixed assets
- ▲6%
- Now £2.8m
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
- Osi Group Llc (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Gands (U.K.)75–100%
- Ypm Group Limited75–100%
- Ypm Holdings Limited75–100%
- Kirkby 2017 Limited75–100%
- Yorkshire Premier Meat 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 Dec 2024 (profit £2.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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