Frontier Agriculture Limited
Registered name: FRONTIER AGRICULTURE LIMITED
Frontier Agriculture Limited made £1.7bn revenue and £7.7m profit in the year to 26 Jun 2025.
Frontier Agriculture Limited’s revenue fell 2% to £1.7bn in the year to 26 Jun 2025, with £7.7m profit and 1,295 employees. The company is classified under “support activities for crop production” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 21 yrs · since 2004
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 26 Jun 2023 | 26 Jun 2024 | 26 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £2.4bn | £1.8bn | £1.7bn |
| Cost of sales | −£2.2bn | −£1.6bn | −£1.6bn |
| Gross profit | £132m | £120m | £110m |
| Operating profit | £52.1m | £37m | £14.2m |
| Profit before tax | £40.3m | £40.1m | £9.4m |
| Profit after tax | £31.9m | £32.8m | £7.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £31.9m | £32.8m | £7.7m |
| Employees (average) | 1,161 | 1,256 | 1,295 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.4% | 1.9% | 0.4% |
| Gross margin | 5.6% | 6.9% | 6.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £2m | £1.4m | £1.3m |
| Profit per employee | £27.5k | £26.1k | £6k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼25.7% | ▼1.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲2.8% | ▼76.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8.2% | ▲3.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.4%
- 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
- £6k
- 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
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 1,295
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Subsidiaries (21)
- Anglia Grain Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- B.C.W. (Agriculture) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Boothmans (Agriculture) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Boston Seeds LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Euroagkem LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Forward Agronomy LimitedFigures not disclosed
- G F P (Agriculture) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- GH Grain (NO.2) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- GH Grain LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Grain Harvesters LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Intracrop LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lothian Crop Specialists LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Navara Oat Milling LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Nomix Enviro LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Nomix LimitedFigures not disclosed
- North Wold Agronomy LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Phoenix Agronomy LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Southampton Grain Terminal LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Soyl LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Agronomy Partnership LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Yagro LtdFigures not disclosed
Minority corporate shareholders
- A.b.f.holdings Limited 25–50%
- Cargill PLC 25–50%
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 26 Jun 2025 (profit £7.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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