Peter Gradon Meat and Poultry Marketing Limited
Registered name: PETER GRADON MEAT AND POULTRY MARKETING LIMITED
Part of Peter Gradon Meat and Poultry Holdings Limited groupPeter Gradon Meat and Poultry Marketing Limited made £11.4m revenue and £287k profit in the year to 1 Nov 2025.
Peter Gradon Meat and Poultry Marketing Limited’s revenue grew 17% to £11.4m in the year to 1 Nov 2025, with £287k profit and 51 employees. The company is classified under “processing and preserving of poultry meat” and is based in Halifax; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Halifax, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 26 yrs · since 2000
- 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 | 29 Oct 2021 | 28 Oct 2022 | 3 Nov 2023 | 2 Nov 2024 | 1 Nov 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £10.1m | £12m | £11.1m | £9.8m | £11.4m |
| Cost of sales | £8.6m | £10.1m | £9.4m | £8.3m | £9.9m |
| Gross profit | £1.5m | £1.9m | £1.8m | £1.4m | £1.6m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £919k | £344k | £790k | £208k |
| Profit before tax | £1.1m | £937k | £468k | £1.1m | £398k |
| Profit after tax | £1m | £643k | £380k | £757k | £287k |
| Profit (best available) | £1m | £643k | £380k | £757k | £287k |
| Staff costs | £1.5m | £1.5m | £1.6m | £1.4m | £1.8m |
| Employees (average) | 55 | 55 | 55 | 56 | 51 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 10.4% | 5.4% | 3.4% | 7.8% | 2.5% |
| Gross margin | 15.3% | 16% | 16% | 14.6% | 13.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £184k | £218k | £203k | £174k | £224k |
| Profit per employee | £19k | £11.7k | £6.9k | £13.5k | £5.6k |
| Cash conversion | 7.6% | 70.5% | 296.9% | 17.6% | 305% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲18.6% | ▼6.9% | ▼12.5% | ▲17.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼38.6% | ▼41% | ▲99.4% | ▼62.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% | ▲1.8% | ▼8.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £2.7m | £3.1m | £3.5m | £3.6m | £4.2m |
| Net assets | £8.6m | £8.8m | £8.9m | £9.7m | £10m |
| Fixed assets | £2.3m | £2m | £1.9m | £2.3m | £2.3m |
| Current assets | £8.5m | £9.2m | £9.3m | £9.3m | £9.6m |
| Debtors | £1.1m | £973k | £828k | £793k | £809k |
| Deferred income | £93.1k | £87.7k | £119k | £123k | £144k |
| Cash from operations | £88.2k | £647k | £1m | £139k | £635k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £224k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 305%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 19.7%
- 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
- 7.1%
- 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
- ▲3%
- Now £10m
- Cash at bank
- ▲17%
- Now £4.2m
- Headcount
- ▼9%
- Now 51
- Deferred income
- ▲17%
- Now £144k
- Fixed assets
- ▼3%
- Now £2.3m
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
- Peter Gradon Meat and Poultry Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Peter Gradon Meat and Poultry Marketing 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 Nov 2025 (profit £287k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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