Buitelaar Foods Limited
Registered name: BUITELAAR FOODS LIMITED
Buitelaar Foods Limited made £45.3m revenue and £3.3m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Buitelaar Foods Limited’s revenue grew 45% to £45.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £3.3m profit and 13 employees. The company is classified under “production of meat and poultry meat products” and is based in Knaresborough; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Knaresborough, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 6 yrs · since 2020
- 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 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £28.8m | £31.3m | £45.3m |
| Cost of sales | £24.3m | £26.7m | −£38.7m |
| Gross profit | £4.5m | £4.7m | £6.7m |
| Operating profit | £2.1m | £3.1m | £4.5m |
| Profit before tax | £2.2m | £3.2m | £4.5m |
| Profit after tax | £1.7m | £2.4m | £3.3m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.7m | £2.4m | £3.3m |
| Staff costs | £1.1m | £714k | — |
| Employees (average) | 14 | 13 | 13 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 5.8% | 7.8% | 7.4% |
| Gross margin | 15.6% | 14.9% | 14.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £2.1m | £2.4m | £3.5m |
| Profit per employee | £118k | £187k | £258k |
| Cash conversion | 90.8% | 51.7% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲8.8% | ▲44.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲47.3% | ▲37.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼7.1% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | −£2.2m | £2.7m | — |
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Current assets | £7.5m | £9.3m | — |
| Debtors | £2.6m | £4.1m | — |
| Cash from operations | £1.9m | £1.6m | — |
| Source | Reports and Financial Statements · bulk data Oct 2025 | Reports and Financial Statements · bulk data Oct 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 14.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £3.5m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £258k
- 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
- 0%
- Now 13
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Minority corporate shareholders
- Wildhold Limited (registered outside the UK register) 25–50%
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £3.3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 23 Oct 2026
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