Homme Soft Fruit Limited
Registered name: HOMME SOFT FRUIT LIMITED
Part of E C Drummond (Agriculture) Ltd groupHomme Soft Fruit Limited made £12.3m revenue and £2.3m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Homme Soft Fruit Limited’s revenue grew 34% to £12.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2.3m profit and 153 employees. The company is classified under “growing of other perennial crops” and is based in Ross-on-Wye; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Ross-on-Wye, West Midlands
- Age
- 6 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 company's immediate and ultimate parent is E C Drummond (Agriculture) Ltd, 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 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 |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £8.6m | £9.2m | £12.3m |
| Cost of sales | £7.2m | £7.6m | £8.8m |
| Gross profit | £1.4m | £1.6m | £3.5m |
| Operating profit | £429k | £606k | £2.3m |
| Profit before tax | £420k | £594k | £2.3m |
| Profit after tax | £404k | £475k | £2.3m |
| Profit (best available) | £404k | £475k | £2.3m |
| Staff costs | £3.9m | £4.5m | £5.5m |
| Employees (average) | 133 | 155 | 153 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.7% | 5.2% | 18.7% |
| Gross margin | 15.9% | 17.3% | 28.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £64.7k | £59.1k | £80.1k |
| Profit per employee | £3k | £3.1k | £15k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲6.6% | ▲33.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲17.6% | ▲383.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲16.5% | ▼1.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £458k | £4.3k | £58.8k |
| Net assets | £4.2m | £4.7m | £7m |
| Fixed assets | £666k | £1m | £934k |
| Current assets | £4.4m | £5.7m | £7.6m |
| Debtors | £22.7k | £44.2k | £13.5k |
| Deferred income | £375k | £981k | £206k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 18.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 28.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £80.1k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £15k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 7.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- 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
- ▲49%
- Now £7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲1271%
- Now £58.8k
- Headcount
- ▼1%
- Now 153
- Deferred income
- ▼79%
- Now £206k
- Fixed assets
- ▼10%
- Now £934k
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
- E C Drummond (Agriculture) Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Homme Soft Fruit Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Brackley Farms LimitedRev. £35.4m · Profit £1.6m
- Ecd Poultry LimitedRev. £19.9m · Profit £1.7m
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 £2.3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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