Essential Food Hygiene Limited
Registered name: ESSENTIAL FOOD HYGIENE LIMITED
Part of Puma Topco Limited groupEssential Food Hygiene Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Jul 2025 show net assets of £250k and -3 employees.
Essential Food Hygiene 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 31 Jul 2025 showed net assets of £250k and -3 employees. The company is classified under “other food services” and is based in Leeds; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 6 yrs · since 2020
- 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
Essential Food Hygiene Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Jul 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
- -3
- Net assets
- £250k
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2022 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 2 | 2 | -3 | -3 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▼250% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Net assets | £7.4k | £29.4k | £94.5k | £250k |
| Fixed assets | £577 | £1.5k | £1.9k | £51.5k |
| Current assets | £31.9k | £74.7k | £206k | £391k |
| Deferred income | — | £2.9k | £2.9k | £590 |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 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
- ▲165%
- Now £250k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- —
- Now -3
- Deferred income
- ▼80%
- Now £590
- Fixed assets
- ▲2546%
- Now £51.5k
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
- Puma Topco Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Puma Bidco Limited75–100%
- Phenna Group Topco Limited75–100%
- Phenna Group Midco 1 Limited75–100%
- Phenna Group Midco 2 Limited75–100%
- Phenna Group Holdings Limited75–100%
- Export Topco Limited75–100%
- Export Bidco Limited75–100%
- Eville & Jones (Group) Limited75–100%
- Eville & Jones Holdings Limited75–100%
- Essential Food Hygiene Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (4)
- Eville & Jones (Commercial Services) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Eville & Jones (G.B.) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Vet Skill LtdFigures not disclosed
- Vetselect LimitedFigures 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 Jul 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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