Newburgh Foods Limited
Registered name: NEWBURGH FOODS LIMITED
Part of Westbridge Food Group Limited groupNewburgh Foods Limited made £75.1m revenue and £1.9m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Newburgh Foods Limited’s revenue grew 34% to £75.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.9m profit and 220 employees. The company is classified under “processing and preserving of poultry meat” and is based in Warrington; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Warrington, North West
- Age
- 11 yrs · since 2014
- 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 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £40.6m | £44.6m | £56.2m | £75.1m |
| Cost of sales | £32.7m | £35.8m | −£51.6m | −£70.2m |
| Gross profit | £8m | £8.8m | £4.6m | £4.8m |
| Operating profit | £2.1m | £1.7m | £2.3m | £2.6m |
| Profit before tax | £2.1m | £1.6m | £2.3m | £2.5m |
| Profit after tax | £1.9m | £1.3m | £2.1m | £1.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.9m | £1.3m | £2.1m | £1.9m |
| Staff costs | £3.6m | £4m | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 93 | 92 | 151 | 220 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 4.8% | 2.8% | 3.7% | 2.5% |
| Gross margin | 19.6% | 19.8% | 8.1% | 6.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £437k | £485k | £372k | £341k |
| Profit per employee | £20.8k | £13.6k | £13.6k | £8.6k |
| Cash conversion | −143.5% | −72.7% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲9.9% | ▲25.8% | ▲33.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼35.3% | ▲64.3% | ▼7.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼1.1% | ▲64.1% | ▲45.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.2m | £1.5m | — | — |
| Net assets | £4.2m | £5m | — | — |
| Fixed assets | £3.9m | £3.7m | — | — |
| Current assets | £7.2m | £8.4m | — | — |
| Debtors | £4m | £4.8m | — | — |
| Deferred income | £83.8k | £103k | — | — |
| Cash from operations | −£3m | −£1.2m | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 6.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £341k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £8.6k
- 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
- ▲46%
- Now 220
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Westbridge Food Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Westbridge Foods Limited50–75%
- Newburgh Foods 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 accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £1.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 23 Oct 2026
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