BRITISH SUGAR PLC

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

• Turnover

  -17.5%

  £1,129,700,000 → £931,900,000

• Cash

  -50%

  £200,000 → £100,000

• Net assets

  -11.9%

  £447,900,000 → £394,600,000

• Employees

  +2.4%

  1,476 → 1,511

• Operating profit

  -139.2%

  £90,400,000 → -£35,400,000

• Profit before tax

  -164.1%

  £76,700,000 → -£49,200,000

• Wages

  +4.3%

  £96,200,000 → £100,300,000

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

1. BRITISH SUGAR PLC 1982-05-04 → present
2. BRITISH SUGAR CORPORATION LIMITED 1936-06-12 → 1982-05-04

Accounting basis

FRS 101

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Ernst & Young LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making enquiries and considering the support available from the intermediate parent company described above, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operation for 12 months from the date of signing of these financial statements. These considerations include the Group's directors' assessment of going concern (set out in the ABF Annual Report dated 4 November 2025 and available at www.abf.co.uk), which included the significant levels of cash and undrawn committed long-term facilities available to the Group and the Group's directors' stress testing of cash flow forecasts through to 5 March 2027, and an assessment of any developments since that date that would adversely affect that conclusion. Accordingly, the financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis.”

Group structure

1. BRITISH SUGAR PLC · parent
   1. The Billington Food Group Limited 100% · Great Britain · Dormant
   2. The Wereham Gravel Company Limited 100% · Great Britain · Growing of sugar beet
   3. Proper Nutty Limited 100% · Great Britain · Dormant

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

4

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.