Hammond Produce Limited
Registered name: HAMMOND PRODUCE LIMITED
Part of Grovetree Ltd groupHammond Produce Limited made £18.8m revenue and £138k profit in the year to 1 Mar 2025.
Hammond Produce Limited’s revenue grew 15% to £18.8m in the year to 1 Mar 2025, with £138k profit and 70 employees. The company is classified under “growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers” and is based in Nottingham; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Nottingham, East Midlands
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 25 Feb 2023 | 2 Mar 2024 | 1 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.2m | £16.4m | £18.8m |
| Cost of sales | £11.9m | £13.9m | £16.3m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £2.5m | £2.5m |
| Operating profit | −£43.4k | £166k | £138k |
| Profit before tax | −£44.4k | £165k | £138k |
| Profit after tax | −£36.4k | £165k | £138k |
| Profit (best available) | −£36.4k | £165k | £138k |
| Staff costs | £2.7m | £2.7m | £2.9m |
| Employees (average) | 75 | 74 | 70 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −0.3% | 1% | 0.7% |
| Gross margin | 15.7% | 15.4% | 13.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £189k | £222k | £269k |
| Profit per employee | −£485 | £2.2k | £2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲16% | ▲14.6% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼16.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼1.3% | ▼5.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £336k | £559k | £707k |
| Net assets | £924k | £1.1m | £1.2m |
| Current assets | £2.5m | £3m | £3.2m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £1.8m | £1.9m |
| Deferred income | £176k | £251k | £304k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £269k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 10.3%
- 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
- ▲13%
- Now £1.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲26%
- Now £707k
- Headcount
- ▼5%
- Now 70
- Deferred income
- ▲21%
- Now £304k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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
- Grovetree Ltd (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Hammond Produce 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 1 Mar 2025 (profit £138k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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