Smithfield Murray Limited
Registered name: SMITHFIELD MURRAY LIMITED
Part of Osi Group Llc groupSmithfield Murray Limited made £69m revenue and £6.6m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Smithfield Murray Limited’s revenue was £69m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £6.6m profit and 138 employees. The company is classified under “production of meat and poultry meat products” and is based in Pontefract; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Pontefract, Yorkshire and The Humber
- 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”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 1 Apr 2022 | 1 Apr 2023 | 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 | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £40.4m | £48.5m | £38.5m | £69m |
| Cost of sales | £35.1m | £39.4m | £30.2m | £54.2m |
| Gross profit | £5.3m | £9.1m | £8.3m | £14.8m |
| Operating profit | £1.9m | £5.4m | £5.1m | £8m |
| Profit before tax | £1.8m | £5.4m | £5.2m | £7.8m |
| Profit after tax | £1.4m | £4.3m | £3.9m | £6.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.4m | £4.3m | £3.9m | £6.6m |
| Staff costs | £2.9m | £3.1m | £2.6m | £4.4m |
| Employees (average) | 110 | 125 | 107 | 138 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 3.6% | 9% | 10.1% | 9.5% |
| Gross margin | 13.1% | 18.7% | 21.6% | 21.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £367k | £388k | £360k | £500k |
| Profit per employee | £13.2k | £34.7k | £36.3k | £47.5k |
| Cash conversion | −81.7% | −71.6% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲20.1% | — | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▲199.9% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲13.6% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £325k | £3.3m | £4.2m | £1.3m |
| Net assets | £3.4m | £7.6m | £9.8m | £11.4m |
| Fixed assets | £1.5m | £1.2m | £1.7m | £1.5m |
| Current assets | £9.4m | £12.9m | £16m | £19.2m |
| Debtors | £6.4m | £6.7m | £7.8m | £10.8m |
| Deferred income | £182k | £311k | £351k | £435k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.5m | −£3.9m | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 21.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £500k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £47.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 15.7%
- 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
- —
- Now £11.4m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £1.3m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 138
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £435k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £1.5m
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
- Osi Group Llc (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Gands (U.K.)75–100%
- Ypm Group Limited75–100%
- Ypm Holdings Limited75–100%
- Smithfield Poultry Limited75–100%
- Smithfield Murray Holdings Limited75–100%
- Smithfield Murray 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 Dec 2024 (profit £6.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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