The Burger Manufacturing Company Ltd.
Registered name: THE BURGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
The Burger Manufacturing Company Ltd. made £22.7m revenue and £978k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
The Burger Manufacturing Company Ltd.’s revenue fell 1% to £22.7m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £978k profit and 57 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other food products” and is based in Builth Wells; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Builth Wells, Wales
- Age
- 27 yrs · since 1999
- 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 Sparks Catering Butchers Limited, a company registered in England and Wales. Sparks Catering Butchers Limited is also the ultimate parent undertaking. Conso”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 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) | £19.6m | £23m | £22.9m | £22.7m |
| Cost of sales | £17.5m | £19.7m | £16.6m | £19.4m |
| Gross profit | £2.1m | £3.3m | £6.3m | £3.3m |
| Operating profit | £140k | £1.2m | £4.1m | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | £140k | £1.2m | £4.2m | £1.3m |
| Profit after tax | £111k | £857k | £3.1m | £978k |
| Profit (best available) | £111k | £857k | £3.1m | £978k |
| Staff costs | £1.5m | £1.6m | £1.8m | £1.9m |
| Employees (average) | 58 | 55 | 54 | 57 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 0.6% | 3.7% | 13.5% | 4.3% |
| Gross margin | 10.8% | 14.2% | 27.4% | 14.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £338k | £418k | £424k | £399k |
| Profit per employee | £1.9k | £15.6k | £57.3k | £17.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲17.3% | ▼0.5% | ▼0.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲670.6% | ▲260.7% | ▼68.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼5.2% | ▼1.8% | ▲5.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.8m | £3.8m | £7.2m | £6.5m |
| Net assets | £8.6m | £9.4m | £12.5m | £13.5m |
| Fixed assets | £4m | £3.7m | £3.4m | £3.7m |
| Current assets | £6m | £7.5m | £10.8m | £11.9m |
| Debtors | £1.3m | £1.3m | £1.1m | £1.3m |
| Deferred income | £62.8k | £62.8k | £47.6k | £63.9k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 14.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £399k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £17.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 16.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 5.9%
- 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
- ▲8%
- Now £13.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼10%
- Now £6.5m
- Headcount
- ▲6%
- Now 57
- Deferred income
- ▲34%
- Now £63.9k
- Fixed assets
- ▲6%
- Now £3.7m
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 30 Sep 2025 (profit £978k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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