Supreme Petfoods Limited
Registered name: SUPREME PETFOODS LIMITED
Part of Supreme Pet Food Holdings Limited groupSupreme Petfoods Limited made £26.2m revenue and £1.5m profit in the year to 27 Jul 2025. read from filing text
Supreme Petfoods Limited’s revenue fell 7% to £26.2m in the year to 27 Jul 2025, with £1.5m profit and 102 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of prepared pet foods” and is based in Ipswich; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Ipswich, East of England
- Age
- 44 yrs · since 1981
- 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 Jul 2022 | 30 Jul 2023 | 28 Jul 2024 | 27 Jul 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) | £22.9m | £27.5m | £28.2m | £26.2m |
| Cost of sales | £10.7m | £15.1m | £13.7m | £11.6m |
| Gross profit | £12.2m | £12.4m | £14.5m | £14.6m |
| Operating profit | £1.9m | £1m | £2.4m | £2m |
| Profit before tax | £1.9m | £1m | £2.4m | £2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.6m | £772k | £1.8m | £1.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.6m | £772k | £1.8m | £1.5m |
| Staff costs | £3.3m | £3.4m | £4.1m | £4.1m |
| Employees (average) | 94 | 96 | 112 | 102 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 6.9% | 2.8% | 6.4% | 5.8% |
| Gross margin | 53.3% | 45% | 51.6% | 55.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £244k | £287k | £252k | £257k |
| Profit per employee | £16.9k | £8k | £16.2k | £14.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲20.1% | ▲2.5% | ▼7.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼51.3% | ▲134.8% | ▼16.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2.1% | ▲16.7% | ▼8.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2.8m | £956k | £1.7m | £2.5m |
| Net assets | £7.5m | £8.1m | £9.4m | £10.5m |
| Fixed assets | £2.6m | £6.1m | £6.5m | £7.1m |
| Current assets | £9m | £6.8m | £8.1m | £7.8m |
| Debtors | £3.3m | £3.5m | £3.9m | £3.4m |
| Deferred income | £1.1m | £1.2m | £1.6m | £2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 55.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £257k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £14.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 27%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 7.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.9%
- 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
- ▲12%
- Now £10.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲43%
- Now £2.5m
- Headcount
- ▼9%
- Now 102
- Deferred income
- ▲22%
- Now £2m
- Fixed assets
- ▲8%
- Now £7.1m
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
- Supreme Pet Food Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Supreme Petfoods Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Supreme Pet Products 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 27 Jul 2025 (profit £1.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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