Shaken Udder Limited
Registered name: SHAKEN UDDER LIMITED
Part of Idilia Foods S.L.U. groupShaken Udder Limited made £27.1m revenue and £3.5m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Shaken Udder Limited’s revenue was £27.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £3.5m profit and 21 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other food products” and is based in Colchester; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Colchester, East of England
- Age
- 19 yrs · since 2007
- 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 smallest group of undertakings for which consolidated financial statements have been drawn up is headed by the Company's immediate parent company, Shaken Udder Group Limited. Copies of the group f”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2025 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £28.8m | £27.1m |
| Cost of sales | £21.2m | £20.3m |
| Gross profit | £7.6m | £6.8m |
| Operating profit | £4.1m | £4.3m |
| Profit before tax | £4.2m | £4.3m |
| Profit after tax | £3.4m | £3.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.4m | £3.5m |
| Staff costs | £698k | £728k |
| Employees (average) | 20 | 21 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 11.8% | 12.9% |
| Gross margin | 26.4% | 25.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £1.4m | £1.3m |
| Profit per employee | £170k | £166k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £3.3m | £1.9m |
| Net assets | £8.1m | £7.6m |
| Fixed assets | £109k | £110k |
| Current assets | £13.6m | £11.1m |
| Debtors | £5.3m | £5.2m |
| Deferred income | £1m | £715k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 12.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.3m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £166k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 19.1%
- 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
- —
- Now £7.6m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £1.9m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 21
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £715k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £110k
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
- Idilia Foods S.L.U. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Shaken Udder Group Limited75–100%
- Shaken Udder 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit £3.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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