Cherwell Valley Silos Limited
Registered name: CHERWELL VALLEY SILOS LIMITED
Part of KJ Cherry Holdings Limited groupCherwell Valley Silos Limited made £27.4m revenue and £151k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025. read from filing text
Cherwell Valley Silos Limited’s revenue fell 3% to £27.4m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £151k profit and 25 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of prepared feeds for farm animals” and is based in Banbury; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Banbury, South East
- Age
- 65 yrs · since 1961
- 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 parent undertaking is K J Cherry and Sons Limited (incorporated in England & Wales).”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 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) | £25.5m | £30.2m | £28.2m | £27.4m |
| Cost of sales | £23.5m | £28.4m | £26.4m | £25.9m |
| Gross profit | £1.9m | £1.8m | £1.8m | £1.5m |
| Operating profit | £566k | £684k | £624k | £201k |
| Profit before tax | £507k | £666k | £630k | £206k |
| Profit after tax | £368k | £621k | £582k | £151k |
| Profit (best available) | £368k | £621k | £582k | £151k |
| Staff costs | £878k | £1.1m | £1.2m | £1.1m |
| Employees (average) | 22 | 22 | 22 | 25 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.5% | 2.1% | 2.1% | 0.5% |
| Gross margin | 7.6% | 5.9% | 6.2% | 5.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £1.2m | £1.4m | £1.3m | £1.1m |
| Profit per employee | £16.7k | £28.2k | £26.4k | £6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲18.5% | ▼6.6% | ▼3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲68.8% | ▼6.4% | ▼74.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% | ▲13.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.4m | £1.6m | £1.7m | £1.7m |
| Net assets | £4.8m | £5.3m | £5.9m | £2.9m |
| Fixed assets | £267k | £210k | £232k | £386k |
| Current assets | £7.9m | £8.5m | £9.8m | £6.5m |
| Debtors | £1.4m | £2m | £2.2m | £1.5m |
| Deferred income | £563k | £714k | £1.1m | £721k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 5.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.1m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.4%
- 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
- 5.5%
- 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
- ▼50%
- Now £2.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▼1%
- Now £1.7m
- Headcount
- ▲14%
- Now 25
- Deferred income
- ▼33%
- Now £721k
- Fixed assets
- ▲67%
- Now £386k
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
- KJ Cherry Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- K.J. Cherry & Sons Limited75–100%
- Cherwell Valley Silos Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Cherwell Valley International 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 30 Jun 2025 (profit £151k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 16 Oct 2026
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