Culloden Foods Limited
Registered name: CULLODEN FOODS LIMITED
Part of Harry Gow Limited groupCulloden Foods Limited made £11.3m revenue and £152k profit in the year to 31 May 2025. read from filing text
Culloden Foods Limited’s revenue grew 5% to £11.3m in the year to 31 May 2025, with £152k profit and 215 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes” and is based in Inverness; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Inverness, Scotland
- Age
- 48 yrs · since 1977
- 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
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 May 2022 | 31 May 2023 | 31 May 2024 | 31 May 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | £10.8m | £11.3m |
| Cost of sales | — | — | £4.1m | £4.4m |
| Gross profit | — | — | £6.6m | £6.9m |
| Operating profit | — | — | £487k | £328k |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £491k | £324k |
| Profit after tax | — | — | £461k | £152k |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | £461k | £152k |
| Staff costs | — | — | £5m | £5.8m |
| Employees (average) | 205 | 207 | 205 | 215 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | 4.3% | 1.3% |
| Gross margin | — | — | 61.6% | 61.1% |
| Revenue per employee | — | — | £52.5k | £52.8k |
| Profit per employee | — | — | £2.2k | £706 |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | — | ▲5.3% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▼67.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1% | ▼1% | ▲4.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.2m | £1.5m | £810k | £830k |
| Net assets | £2.4m | £2.9m | £3.2m | £3m |
| Fixed assets | £2.1m | £2.3m | £3m | £4.7m |
| Current assets | £1.8m | £2.2m | £1.7m | £1.6m |
| Debtors | £335k | £336k | £384k | £468k |
| Deferred income | £123k | £178k | £0 | £1.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 61.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £52.8k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £706
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 41.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 10.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 4.1%
- 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
- ▼8%
- Now £3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲2%
- Now £830k
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 215
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £1.2m
- Fixed assets
- ▲57%
- Now £4.7m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Harry Gow Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Culloden Foods Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 May 2025 (profit £152k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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