Orion Foods Limited
Registered name: ORION FOODS LIMITED
Part of Auriga Holdings (Iom) Limited groupOrion Foods Limited made £13.8m revenue and £900k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Orion Foods Limited’s revenue fell 2% to £13.8m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £900k profit and 228 employees. The company is classified under “unlicensed restaurants and cafes” and is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 29 yrs · since 1997
- 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.
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&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.7m | £13.6m | £14m | £13.8m |
| Cost of sales | £8.8m | £9.6m | £10m | £9.4m |
| Gross profit | £4.9m | £4m | £4m | £4.4m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £601k | £722k | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | £1.3m | £602k | £724k | £1.1m |
| Profit after tax | £1m | £514k | £664k | £900k |
| Profit (best available) | £1m | £514k | £664k | £900k |
| Staff costs | £2.5m | £2.9m | £3.5m | £3.5m |
| Employees (average) | 185 | 215 | 234 | 228 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 7.4% | 3.8% | 4.7% | 6.5% |
| Gross margin | 36% | 29.4% | 28.5% | 32% |
| Revenue per employee | £74.2k | £63.1k | £59.9k | £60.5k |
| Profit per employee | £5.5k | £2.4k | £2.8k | £3.9k |
| Cash conversion | 110.6% | −21.3% | 39% | 19.6% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼1.1% | ▲3.3% | ▼1.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼49.4% | ▲29% | ▲35.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲16.2% | ▲8.8% | ▼2.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.9m | £926k | £363k | £361k |
| Net assets | £2.7m | £3.2m | £3.9m | £4.8m |
| Fixed assets | £1.7m | £2m | £2.3m | £1.8m |
| Current assets | £3m | £3.5m | £4.2m | £5.6m |
| Debtors | £109k | £90k | £106k | £104k |
| Deferred income | £99.2k | £102k | £109k | £87k |
| Cash from operations | £1.4m | −£128k | £282k | £211k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 32%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £60.5k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 19.6%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 13.3%
- 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
- 0.8%
- 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
- ▲23%
- Now £4.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼0%
- Now £361k
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 228
- Deferred income
- ▼20%
- Now £87k
- Fixed assets
- ▼19%
- Now £1.8m
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
- Auriga Holdings (Iom) Limited (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Auriga Holdings Ltd75–100%
- Orion Foods Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Nexus Foods LimitedRev. £13.1m · Profit £979k
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 £900k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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