Visual Foods Limited
Registered name: VISUAL FOODS LIMITED
Part of Visual Foods Group Limited groupVisual Foods Limited made £29.2m revenue and £302k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Visual Foods Limited’s revenue fell 1% to £29.2m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £302k profit and 15 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs” and is based in Birmingham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Birmingham, West Midlands
- Age
- 16 yrs · since 2010
- 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 | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £30.6m | £31.5m | £29.6m | £29.2m |
| Cost of sales | £26.6m | £28.2m | £26.4m | £26.2m |
| Gross profit | £3.9m | £3.3m | £3.2m | £3m |
| Operating profit | £2.1m | £1.3m | £1.1m | £913k |
| Profit before tax | £1.9m | £926k | £600k | £415k |
| Profit after tax | £1.6m | £735k | £449k | £302k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.6m | £735k | £449k | £302k |
| Staff costs | £1.1m | £1.2m | £1.1m | £989k |
| Employees (average) | 15 | 16 | 16 | 15 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5.2% | 2.3% | 1.5% | 1% |
| Gross margin | 12.9% | 10.5% | 10.9% | 10.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £2m | £2m | £1.9m | £1.9m |
| Profit per employee | £106k | £45.9k | £28.1k | £20.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3% | ▼5.9% | ▼1.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼53.7% | ▼38.9% | ▼32.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲6.7% | 0% | ▼6.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £425k | £84.4k | £1.3m | £337k |
| Net assets | £4.5m | £3.5m | £4m | £2.8m |
| Fixed assets | £25.8k | £16.9k | £23.2k | £20.4k |
| Current assets | £11.6m | £11.9m | £13.5m | £13.8m |
| Debtors | £4.4m | £4.5m | £4.4m | £4.8m |
| Deferred income | £172k | £303k | £316k | £202k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 10.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.9m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £20.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 16.5%
- 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
- ▼29%
- Now £2.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼74%
- Now £337k
- Headcount
- ▼6%
- Now 15
- Deferred income
- ▼36%
- Now £202k
- Fixed assets
- ▼12%
- Now £20.4k
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
- Visual Foods Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Tiger Delight Holdings Limited75–100%
- Visual Foods Holdings Limited75–100%
- Visual Foods Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Dragon Delight Foodservice LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Visual Foods Europe LtdFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £302k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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