Ugo Foods Group Limited
Registered name: UGO FOODS GROUP LIMITED
Ugo Foods Group Limited made £22.2m revenue and £333k profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Ugo Foods Group Limited’s revenue grew 1% to £22.2m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £333k profit and 145 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of macaroni, noodles, couscous and similar farinaceous products” and is based in Hertfordshire; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Hertfordshire, East of England
- Age
- 88 yrs · since 1938
- 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 is a wholly owned subsidiary of Appetite Group Limited, a company 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 | 30 Apr 2022 | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 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) | £21.6m | £21.7m | £22m | £22.2m |
| Cost of sales | £15.5m | £15.8m | £16.3m | £16.3m |
| Gross profit | £6.1m | £5.8m | £5.7m | £5.9m |
| Operating profit | £384k | £230k | −£162k | £235k |
| Profit before tax | £349k | £4.2k | −£494k | −£42.9k |
| Profit after tax | £353k | £50.1k | £400k | £333k |
| Profit (best available) | £353k | £50.1k | £400k | £333k |
| Staff costs | £4.8m | £5.1m | £5.3m | £5.4m |
| Employees (average) | 148 | 153 | 150 | 145 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.6% | 0.2% | 1.8% | 1.5% |
| Gross margin | 28.1% | 26.9% | 25.9% | 26.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £146k | £142k | £147k | £153k |
| Profit per employee | £2.4k | £327 | £2.7k | £2.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲0.5% | ▲1.7% | ▲0.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼85.8% | ▲698.1% | ▼16.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.4% | ▼2% | ▼3.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £4.1k | £2.2k | £6.3k | £3.1k |
| Net assets | £1.5m | £972k | £787k | £970k |
| Fixed assets | £3.3m | £3.8m | £3.4m | — |
| Current assets | £5.1m | £5.1m | £4.9m | £5m |
| Debtors | £2m | £2.2m | £2.2m | £2.3m |
| Deferred income | £915k | £1.4m | £1.2m | £846k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 26.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £153k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 10.2%
- 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
- ▲23%
- Now £970k
- Cash at bank
- ▼52%
- Now £3.1k
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 145
- Deferred income
- ▼29%
- Now £846k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Apr 2025 (profit £333k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 11 Oct 2026
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