Allpress Farms Limited
Registered name: ALLPRESS FARMS LIMITED
Part of Horseway Holdings Limited groupAllpress Farms Limited made £17.5m revenue and £981k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Allpress Farms Limited’s revenue grew 2% to £17.5m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £981k profit and 69 employees. The company is classified under “growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers” and is based in Chatteris; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Chatteris, East of England
- Age
- 61 yrs · since 1965
- 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 | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £15.4m | £17.1m | £17.2m | £17.5m |
| Cost of sales | £12.2m | £13.9m | £11m | £11.7m |
| Gross profit | £3.1m | £3.1m | £6.2m | £5.8m |
| Profit before tax | −£934k | −£1.4m | £2.5m | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | −£900k | −£1.3m | £2.2m | £981k |
| Profit (best available) | −£900k | −£1.3m | £2.2m | £981k |
| Staff costs | £7.6m | £7.4m | £3.7m | £4.3m |
| Employees (average) | 94 | 82 | 68 | 69 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | −5.9% | −7.5% | 12.7% | 5.6% |
| Gross margin | 20.5% | 18.4% | 35.8% | 33% |
| Revenue per employee | £164k | £208k | £253k | £253k |
| Profit per employee | −£9.6k | −£15.6k | £32.2k | £14.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲11.1% | ▲0.7% | ▲1.6% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▼55.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼12.8% | ▼17.1% | ▲1.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £10 | £0 | £1.3m | £52.2k |
| Net assets | £3.5m | £2.2m | £4.5m | £5.1m |
| Fixed assets | £3.4m | £3m | £2.1m | £2.1m |
| Current assets | £7.5m | £6.1m | £7.3m | £6m |
| Debtors | £3.3m | £2.5m | £674k | £1m |
| Deferred income | £1m | £463k | £1.3m | £544k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 33%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £253k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £14.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 12%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 5.9%
- 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
- ▲13%
- Now £5.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼96%
- Now £52.2k
- Headcount
- ▲1%
- Now 69
- Deferred income
- ▼58%
- Now £544k
- Fixed assets
- ▲1%
- Now £2.1m
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
- Horseway Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Allpress Farms 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 30 Jun 2025 (profit £981k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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