Heler Foods Packing Limited
Registered name: HELER FOODS PACKING LIMITED
Part of MGH Corporation Limited groupHeler Foods Packing Limited made £30.8m revenue and a £455k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Heler Foods Packing Limited’s revenue grew 21% to £30.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £455k and 234 employees. The company is classified under “butter and cheese production” and is based in Nantwich; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Nantwich, North West
- Age
- 7 yrs · since 2019
- 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 and ultimate parent company of Heler Foods Packing Ltd is MGH Corporation Ltd at the same registered office.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £9.7m | £17.7m | £25.4m | £30.8m |
| Cost of sales | £9.3m | £16.7m | £23.3m | £27.5m |
| Gross profit | £377k | £946k | £2.1m | £3.4m |
| Operating profit | −£1.3m | −£3.4m | −£1.4m | −£311k |
| Profit before tax | £505k | −£3.4m | −£1.4m | −£369k |
| Profit after tax | £505k | −£3.4m | £53.7k | −£455k |
| Profit (best available) | £505k | −£3.4m | £53.7k | −£455k |
| Staff costs | £1.2m | £7.4m | £9.4m | £9.8m |
| Employees (average) | 56 | 204 | 275 | 234 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5.2% | −19.3% | 0.2% | −1.5% |
| Gross margin | 3.9% | 5.4% | 8.3% | 10.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £173k | £86.5k | £92.3k | £132k |
| Profit per employee | £9k | −£16.7k | £195 | −£1.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | — | ▲21.5% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▼947.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | — | ▼14.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £20.2k | £96.2k | £202k | £154k |
| Net assets | £1.2m | −£2.2m | £2.8m | £2.4m |
| Fixed assets | £1.3m | £3.7m | £3.8m | £4.8m |
| Current assets | £4.7m | £5.6m | £7.6m | £6.3m |
| Debtors | £845k | £73.6k | £2.6k | £53.3k |
| Deferred income | £1.5m | £1.4m | £822k | £813k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −1.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 10.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £132k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£1.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 15.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.2%
- 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
- ▼16%
- Now £2.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▼24%
- Now £154k
- Headcount
- ▼15%
- Now 234
- Deferred income
- ▼1%
- Now £813k
- Fixed assets
- ▲26%
- Now £4.8m
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
- MGH Corporation Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Heler Foods Packing Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (6)
- Joseph Heler LimitedRev. £152m · Profit £2.3m
- Lymn Bank Farm LimitedRev. £12.2m · Profit £1.3m
- Cheshire Cheese Corporation LtdFigures not disclosed
- CL Land and Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- JH El LimitedFigures not disclosed
- JH Fresh Foods LtdFigures not disclosed
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 2025 (profit −£455k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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