Caterers Choice Limited
Registered name: CATERERS CHOICE LIMITED
Part of Caterers Choice Holdings Limited groupCaterers Choice Limited made £106m revenue and £3.6m profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025. read from filing text
Caterers Choice Limited’s revenue grew 12% to £106m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £3.6m profit and 43 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs” and is based in Huddersfield; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Huddersfield, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 37 yrs · since 1988
- 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: “As at the reporting date of 30 June 2025, the ultimate controlling party of the Group was C Pinder, by virtue of his majority shareholding in Caterers Choice Limited.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit & lossread from filing text | Profit & lossread from filing text | Profit & lossread from filing text | Profit & lossread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £71m | £84.8m | £94m | £106m |
| Cost of sales | £65.5m | £77.1m | £85.4m | £95.7m |
| Gross profit | £5.4m | £7.7m | £8.6m | £9.9m |
| Operating profit | £2.8m | £4.6m | £4.8m | £5.6m |
| Profit before tax | £2.6m | £3.9m | £4m | £4.8m |
| Profit after tax | £2.2m | £3.1m | £3m | £3.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.2m | £3.1m | £3m | £3.6m |
| Staff costs | £1.5m | £1.8m | £2.2m | £2.6m |
| Employees (average) | 31 | 37 | 41 | 43 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 3% | 3.6% | 3.2% | 3.4% |
| Gross margin | 7.6% | 9.1% | 9.2% | 9.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £2.3m | £2.3m | £2.3m | £2.5m |
| Profit per employee | £69.8k | £83.6k | £73.4k | £83.6k |
| Cash conversion | — | 18.8% | −146.9% | −76.2% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲19.6% | ▲10.9% | ▲12.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲42.9% | ▼2.6% | ▲19.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲19.4% | ▲10.8% | ▲4.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2.4m | £5.5m | £5.4m | £1.6m |
| Net assets | £9.3m | £10.7m | £13.8m | £19.7m |
| Fixed assets | £44.7k | £78.2k | £706k | £4m |
| Current assets | £29.7m | £38.4m | £41.1m | £43.7m |
| Debtors | £8.5m | £12.4m | £14.6m | £14m |
| Deferred income | £707k | £543k | £880k | £1.4m |
| Cash from operations | — | £861k | −£7m | −£4.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 9.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £2.5m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £83.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −76.2%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.3%
- 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
- ▲43%
- Now £19.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼70%
- Now £1.6m
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 43
- Deferred income
- ▲60%
- Now £1.4m
- Fixed assets
- ▲471%
- Now £4m
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
- Caterers Choice Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Caterers Choice Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Fruitypot 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 30 Jun 2025 (profit £3.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 16 Oct 2026