Lowrie Foods Limited
Registered name: LOWRIE FOODS LIMITED
Part of Lowrie Foods Holdings Ltd groupLowrie Foods Limited made £14.6m revenue and £581k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Lowrie Foods Limited’s revenue fell 9% to £14.6m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £581k profit and 35 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other food products”; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- North East
- Age
- 42 yrs · since 1984
- 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: “Lowrie Foods Holdings”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 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) | £11.6m | £13.5m | £16m | £14.6m |
| Cost of sales | £9.2m | £11.5m | £13.1m | £11.9m |
| Gross profit | £2.4m | £2m | £2.9m | £2.7m |
| Operating profit | £695k | £157k | £790k | £713k |
| Profit before tax | £697k | £173k | £828k | £775k |
| Profit after tax | £550k | £147k | £622k | £581k |
| Profit (best available) | £550k | £147k | £622k | £581k |
| Staff costs | — | — | £1.2m | £1.3m |
| Employees (average) | 31 | 33 | 35 | 35 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 4.8% | 1.1% | 3.9% | 4% |
| Gross margin | 20.4% | 14.9% | 18% | 18.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £373k | £410k | £456k | £417k |
| Profit per employee | £17.7k | £4.5k | £17.8k | £16.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲16.9% | ▲18% | ▼8.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼73.3% | ▲323.3% | ▼6.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲6.5% | ▲6.1% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.9m | £1.8m | £2.4m | £2.6m |
| Net assets | £3.9m | £3.9m | £4.4m | £4.3m |
| Fixed assets | £1.4m | £1.3m | £1.4m | £1.3m |
| Current assets | £3.5m | £3.8m | £4.3m | £4.2m |
| Debtors | £1.1m | £1.4m | £1.3m | £1.1m |
| Deferred income | £54.7k | £0 | £12k | £8k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 18.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £417k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £16.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 9.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 7.5%
- 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
- ▼2%
- Now £4.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲9%
- Now £2.6m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 35
- Deferred income
- ▼33%
- Now £8k
- Fixed assets
- ▼3%
- Now £1.3m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Lowrie Foods Holdings Ltd (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Lowrie 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 Mar 2025 (profit £581k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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