Freshasia Foods Ltd
Registered name: FRESHASIA FOODS LTD
Freshasia Foods Ltd made £37.3m revenue and £581k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Freshasia Foods Ltd’s revenue fell 2% to £37.3m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £581k profit and 141 employees. The company is classified under “processing and preserving of meat” and is based in Erith; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Erith, South East
- Age
- 21 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 ultimate controlling party is”
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&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) | £25.9m | £34m | £37.9m | £37.3m |
| Cost of sales | £16.5m | £23.9m | £25.5m | £25.6m |
| Gross profit | £9.4m | £10.1m | £12.4m | £11.7m |
| Operating profit | £2m | £1.9m | £1.8m | £876k |
| Profit before tax | £2m | £1.8m | £1.6m | £654k |
| Profit after tax | £1.6m | £1.5m | £1.3m | £581k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.6m | £1.5m | £1.3m | £581k |
| Staff costs | £3.3m | £4m | £4.5m | £4.6m |
| Employees (average) | 129 | 138 | 134 | 141 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 6% | 4.3% | 3.4% | 1.6% |
| Gross margin | 36.1% | 29.8% | 32.7% | 31.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £201k | £246k | £283k | £265k |
| Profit per employee | £12.1k | £10.7k | £9.5k | £4.1k |
| Cash conversion | −12.2% | 4.7% | −14.5% | −358.2% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲31.1% | ▲11.6% | ▼1.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼5.7% | ▼13.4% | ▼54.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲7% | ▼2.9% | ▲5.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2.1m | £1.7m | £2.4m | £2.5m |
| Net assets | £6.9m | £8.3m | £9.5m | £10m |
| Fixed assets | £824k | £845k | £841k | £1.1m |
| Current assets | £9.3m | £11.2m | £13.8m | £11.9m |
| Debtors | £3.1m | £3.1m | £3.5m | £3.6m |
| Deferred income | £77.3k | £132k | £40k | £86.2k |
| Cash from operations | −£247k | £91k | −£257k | −£3.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £265k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −358.2%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.5%
- 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
- ▲5%
- Now £10m
- Cash at bank
- ▲4%
- Now £2.5m
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 141
- Deferred income
- ▲115%
- Now £86.2k
- Fixed assets
- ▲35%
- Now £1.1m
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 31 Mar 2025 (profit £581k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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