Blends Flavours & Colours Limited
Registered name: BLENDS FLAVOURS & COLOURS LIMITED
Part of Blends Group Ltd groupBlends Flavours & Colours Limited made £20.7m revenue and £102k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Blends Flavours & Colours Limited’s revenue grew 27% to £20.7m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £102k profit and 97 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other food products” and is based in Prescot; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Prescot, North West
- Age
- 9 yrs · since 2017
- 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 ultimate parent company is”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2021 | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £8.7m | £10.5m | £14.9m | £16.3m | £20.7m |
| Cost of sales | £5.1m | £6.9m | £8.7m | £9.5m | £12.8m |
| Gross profit | £3.6m | £3.6m | £6.2m | £6.9m | £7.8m |
| Operating profit | £270k | −£818k | £487k | £128k | £437k |
| Profit before tax | £239k | −£881k | £186k | −£148k | £172k |
| Profit after tax | £381k | −£412k | £195k | −£121k | £102k |
| Profit (best available) | £381k | −£412k | £195k | −£121k | £102k |
| Staff costs | £2m | £2.6m | £3.5m | £4.1m | — |
| Employees (average) | 71 | 80 | 103 | 100 | 97 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 4.4% | −3.9% | 1.3% | −0.7% | 0.5% |
| Gross margin | 41.1% | 34.4% | 41.5% | 42% | 38% |
| Revenue per employee | £122k | £132k | £145k | £163k | £213k |
| Profit per employee | £5.4k | −£5.1k | £1.9k | −£1.2k | £1k |
| Cash conversion | 46.6% | — | 396.6% | −909.8% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲21.5% | ▲41.3% | ▲9.6% | ▲26.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼208.2% | — | ▼161.8% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲12.7% | ▲28.7% | ▼2.9% | ▼3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £71.3k | £64.1k | £64.8k | £144k | £158k |
| Net assets | £902k | £432k | £631k | £1.2m | £1.2m |
| Fixed assets | £3.7m | £7.3m | £7.2m | £7.9m | £7.1m |
| Current assets | £3.9m | £3.9m | £6.6m | £7m | £7.1m |
| Debtors | £1.3m | £1.4m | £3.8m | £2.8m | £3.1m |
| Deferred income | — | — | — | £125k | £125k |
| Cash from operations | £126k | −£3.6m | £1.9m | −£1.2m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 38%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £213k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 34.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 15.1%
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now £1.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲10%
- Now £158k
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 97
- Deferred income
- ▼1%
- Now £125k
- Fixed assets
- ▼10%
- Now £7.1m
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
- Blends Group Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Blends Flavours & Colours Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- BT Flavours LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (1)
- Blends Holdings LimitedRev. — · Profit −£3.8k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 (profit £102k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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