BDF Fresh Produce Limited
Registered name: BDF FRESH PRODUCE LIMITED
Part of Kite UK Topco Limited groupBDF Fresh Produce Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 30 Apr 2025 show net assets of £471 and 35 employees.
BDF Fresh Produce Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 30 Apr 2025 showed net assets of £471 and 35 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of fruit and vegetables” and is based in North Shields; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- North Shields, North East
- Age
- 8 yrs · since 2018
- 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
Revenue not disclosed
BDF Fresh Produce Limited’s accounts for the year to 30 Apr 2025 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 35
- Net assets
- £471
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 | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 18 | 23 | 28 | 35 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Headcount growth | — | ▲27.8% | ▲21.7% | ▲25% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £42.9k | −£2.3k | £42.5k | £29.1k |
| Net assets | £6.9k | £1.7k | £703 | £471 |
| Fixed assets | £51.2k | £65.3k | £70k | £81k |
| Current assets | £241k | £282k | £378k | £531k |
| Debtors | £184k | £255k | £291k | £407k |
| Source | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
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
- ▼33%
- Now £471
- Cash at bank
- ▼31%
- Now £29.1k
- Headcount
- ▲25%
- Now 35
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲16%
- Now £81k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Kite UK Topco Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Kite UK Midco Limited75–100%
- Kite UK Bidco Limited75–100%
- Kitwave Group Limited75–100%
- Kitwave Investments Limited75–100%
- Kitwave One Limited75–100%
- Kitwave Limited75–100%
- Westcountry Food Holdings Ltd75–100%
- BDF Fresh Produce Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Westcountry Fruit Sales LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FilletedAccounts for the year to 30 Apr 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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