Gilfresh Produce Limited
Registered name: GILFRESH PRODUCE LIMITED
Gilfresh Produce Limited made £35.4m revenue and £755k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Gilfresh Produce Limited’s revenue fell 8% to £35.4m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £755k profit and 145 employees. The company is classified under “other processing and preserving of fruit and vegetables”; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Northern Ireland
- Age
- 19 yrs · since 2007
- 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 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £38.5m | £35.4m |
| Cost of sales | £33.3m | £30.8m |
| Gross profit | £5.1m | £4.6m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | £1.2m | £1.1m |
| Profit after tax | £885k | £755k |
| Profit (best available) | £885k | £755k |
| Staff costs | £8.1m | £7.5m |
| Employees (average) | 162 | 145 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 2.3% | 2.1% |
| Gross margin | 13.3% | 13% |
| Revenue per employee | £237k | £244k |
| Profit per employee | £5.5k | £5.2k |
| Cash conversion | 107.3% | −25.1% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼14.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼10.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £1.1m | −£1.8m |
| Net assets | £6.3m | £7.1m |
| Fixed assets | £7.7m | £7.7m |
| Current assets | £4.6m | £6.7m |
| Debtors | £3.1m | £4.3m |
| Cash from operations | £1.4m | −£285k |
| Source | Reports and Financial Statements · bulk data Dec 2025 | Reports and Financial Statements · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £244k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −25.1%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 21.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.3%
- 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
- ▲12%
- Now £7.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼268%
- Now −£1.8m
- Headcount
- ▼10%
- Now 145
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲0%
- Now £7.7m
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Sources
Latest figures from Reports and Financial Statements for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £755k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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