What's Cooking Deeside UK Ltd
Registered name: WHAT'S COOKING DEESIDE UK LTD
Part of What's Cooking Belgium Nv groupWhat's Cooking Deeside UK Ltd made £71.1m revenue and £2.9m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
What's Cooking Deeside UK Ltd’s revenue grew 11% to £71.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2.9m profit and 440 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other food products” and is based in Deeside; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Deeside, North West
- Age
- 39 yrs · since 1986
- 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 immediate parent undertaking of What’s Cooking Deeside UK”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 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) | £57.8m | £61.3m | £64.2m | £71.1m |
| Cost of sales | £44.1m | £46m | £49.4m | £55.8m |
| Gross profit | £13.7m | £15.4m | £14.8m | £15.3m |
| Operating profit | £4m | £2.8m | £2.8m | £3.3m |
| Profit before tax | £3.9m | £2.8m | £2.8m | £3.3m |
| Profit after tax | £3.1m | £2.1m | £2m | £2.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.1m | £2.1m | £2m | £2.9m |
| Staff costs | £13.7m | £14m | £14.9m | £17.7m |
| Employees (average) | 437 | 418 | 413 | 440 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5.4% | 3.4% | 3.2% | 4% |
| Gross margin | 23.7% | 25.1% | 23% | 21.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £132k | £147k | £155k | £162k |
| Profit per employee | £7.1k | £4.9k | £4.9k | £6.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲6.1% | ▲4.7% | ▲10.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼33.9% | ▼1% | ▲40.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4.3% | ▼1.2% | ▲6.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2.1m | £3.8m | £3.4m | £4.1m |
| Net assets | £16.3m | £18.3m | £18.9m | £19m |
| Fixed assets | £10.6m | £9.5m | £9.8m | £9.8m |
| Current assets | £18.1m | £18m | £18.3m | £19.3m |
| Debtors | £10.5m | £8m | £9m | £8.9m |
| Deferred income | £1.8m | £2.4m | £2.9m | £2.6m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 21.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £162k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 13.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.6%
- 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
- ▲1%
- Now £19m
- Cash at bank
- ▲21%
- Now £4.1m
- Headcount
- ▲7%
- Now 440
- Deferred income
- ▼12%
- Now £2.6m
- Fixed assets
- ▲1%
- Now £9.8m
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
- What's Cooking Belgium Nv (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- What's Cooking Deeside UK Ltdthis 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 Dec 2025 (profit £2.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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