Moordale Foods Limited
Registered name: MOORDALE FOODS LIMITED
Moordale Foods Limited made £21.2m revenue and £2m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2026. read from filing text
Moordale Foods Limited’s revenue grew 4% to £21.2m in the year to 31 Mar 2026, with £2m profit and 76 employees. The company is classified under “non-specialised wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco” and is based in Brough; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Brough, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 11 yrs · since 2015
- 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 | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 | 31 Mar 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.6m | £15.6m | £16.2m | £20.3m | £21.2m |
| Cost of sales | £9.9m | £10.4m | £10.7m | £13.5m | £13m |
| Gross profit | £4.7m | £5.2m | £5.5m | £6.8m | £8.2m |
| Operating profit | £1.5m | £1.5m | £1.3m | £1.1m | £2.7m |
| Profit before tax | £1.4m | £1.4m | £1.3m | £1.1m | £2.6m |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £1.2m | £943k | £737k | £2m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £1.2m | £943k | £737k | £2m |
| Staff costs | £2.5m | £2.5m | £2.7m | £2.9m | £3.4m |
| Employees (average) | 73 | 67 | 70 | 69 | 76 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 7.8% | 7.5% | 5.8% | 3.6% | 9.2% |
| Gross margin | 32.1% | 33.5% | 33.9% | 33.4% | 38.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £200k | £233k | £232k | £295k | £279k |
| Profit per employee | £15.7k | £17.4k | £13.5k | £10.7k | £25.7k |
| Cash conversion | 31.5% | −130.8% | −154.9% | −166.7% | −108% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲7.2% | ▲3.7% | ▲25.3% | ▲4.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲1.8% | ▼19.1% | ▼21.9% | ▲164.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼8.2% | ▲4.5% | ▼1.4% | ▲10.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £1m | £1.9m | £2.3m | £2.3m | £2.5m |
| Net assets | £4.7m | £5.5m | £5.9m | £4.8m | £5.9m |
| Fixed assets | £1.6m | £1.5m | £2m | £1.9m | £2m |
| Current assets | £5.6m | £6.7m | £6.7m | £7.8m | £9.3m |
| Debtors | £1.4m | £1.4m | £1.7m | £1.8m | £2.6m |
| Deferred income | £225k | £280k | £344k | £580k | £978k |
| Cash from operations | £462k | −£1.9m | −£2.1m | −£1.9m | −£2.9m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 38.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £279k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £25.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −108%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 9.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.1%
- 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
- ▲22%
- Now £5.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▲9%
- Now £2.5m
- Headcount
- ▲10%
- Now 76
- Deferred income
- ▲69%
- Now £978k
- Fixed assets
- ▲6%
- Now £2m
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 2026 (profit £2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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