Halton Foodservice Limited
Registered name: HALTON FOODSERVICE LIMITED
Halton Foodservice Limited made £16.3m revenue and £585k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Halton Foodservice Limited’s revenue grew 2% to £16.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £585k profit and 101 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other fabricated metal products” and is based in Rochester; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Rochester, South East
- Age
- 39 yrs · since 1987
- 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 is a wholly owned subsidiary of Halton Oy, a company incorporated in Finland. The ultimate parent company is Oy Halton Group Limited, a company incorporated in Finland.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £15.2m | £16.1m | £16.3m |
| Cost of sales | £10.1m | £10.9m | £10.4m |
| Gross profit | £5m | £5.2m | £6m |
| Operating profit | £675k | £520k | £659k |
| Profit before tax | £693k | £605k | £761k |
| Profit after tax | £694k | £453k | £585k |
| Profit (best available) | £694k | £453k | £585k |
| Staff costs | £4.4m | £4.8m | £5.3m |
| Employees (average) | 95 | 96 | 101 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.6% | 2.8% | 3.6% |
| Gross margin | 33.2% | 32.4% | 36.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £160k | £167k | £161k |
| Profit per employee | £7.3k | £4.7k | £5.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲5.9% | ▲1.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼34.7% | ▲29.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.1% | ▲5.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2.3m | £1.9m | £3.1m |
| Net assets | £4.6m | £5m | £5.6m |
| Fixed assets | £464k | £478k | £380k |
| Current assets | £7m | £7.7m | £8.8m |
| Debtors | £2.2m | £3.5m | £3m |
| Deferred income | £566k | £567k | £565k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 36.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £161k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 18.5%
- 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
- ▲12%
- Now £5.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲62%
- Now £3.1m
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 101
- Deferred income
- ▼0%
- Now £565k
- Fixed assets
- ▼20%
- Now £380k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit £585k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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