Hampshire Meats Limited
Registered name: HAMPSHIRE MEATS LIMITED
Hampshire Meats Limited made £27.8m revenue and £240k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Hampshire Meats Limited’s revenue grew 1% to £27.8m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £240k profit and 21 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of meat and meat products” and is based in Bishop's Stortford; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bishop's Stortford, East of England
- Age
- 22 yrs · since 2004
- 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 parent company and its group are controlled by E K Graves, who has a controlling stake.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £27.4m | £27.8m |
| Cost of sales | £25.5m | £26m |
| Gross profit | £2m | £1.8m |
| Operating profit | −£40k | −£49k |
| Profit before tax | £84k | £240k |
| Profit after tax | £84k | £240k |
| Profit (best available) | £84k | £240k |
| Staff costs | £1.1m | £1.2m |
| Employees (average) | 21 | 21 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 0.3% | 0.9% |
| Gross margin | 7.2% | 6.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £1.3m | £1.3m |
| Profit per employee | £4k | £11.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲1.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲185.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £6.7m | £1.3m |
| Net assets | £6.4m | £6.6m |
| Fixed assets | £1.4m | £1.4m |
| Debtors | £4.3m | £3.5m |
| Cash from operations | £3.2m | −£1.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 6.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.3m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 5.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.6%
- 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
- ▲4%
- Now £6.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▼80%
- Now £1.3m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 21
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼0%
- Now £1.4m
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £240k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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