HEYGATE & SONS LIMITED

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  1 PSC ceased in last 24 months

  Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.

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

  -8.1%

  £429,285,240 → £394,408,378

• Cash

  +15.1%

  £53,415,046 → £61,502,897

• Net assets

  +16.1%

  £107,663,424 → £124,957,475

• Employees

  -2.3%

  1,206 → 1,178

• Operating profit

  +37.5%

  £11,683,847 → £16,067,985

• Profit before tax

  -2.5%

  £18,363,283 → £17,907,282

• Wages

  +2.2%

  £52,271,693 → £53,445,720

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Clifford Roberts

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group's and the parent company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. HEYGATE & SONS LIMITED · parent
   1. Heygates Limited 100% · UK · Flour milling
   2. The Heygate Engineering Company Limited 100% · UK · Road haulage, transport services and vehicle maintenance for other group companies
   3. Heygate Leasing Limited 100% · UK · Leasing of cars to other group companies
   4. Fine Lady Bakeries Limited 100% · UK · Manufacture and sale of bakery and confectionery goods
   5. Millstream Investments Limited 100% · UK · Rental of farmland
   6. Heygate Grain Limited 100% · UK · Merchanting and handling grain principally to and for other group companies
   7. County Pride Products Limited 33.25% · UK · Merchanting of grain to other group companies
   8. Heygate Farms Swaffham Limited 29.31% · UK · Farming and contracting
   9. Warburton Estate Company Limited 100% · UK · Provender milling
   10. Heygate Animal Feeds Limited 100% · UK · Sale of products for sandwich making
   11. Heygates Country Feeds Limited 100% · UK · Activities of a holding company
   12. Chiltern Bakeries Limited 100% · UK · Sale of environmentally friendly packaging
   13. Green Light Packaging Holdings Limited 50% · UK · Activities of a holding company
   14. Green Light Packaging Limited 50% · UK · Sale of environmentally friendly packaging
   15. Green Light International Limited 50% · UK · Activities of a holding company
   16. Judkin Court Management Limited 50% · UK · Rental property

Significant events

• “On the 11th April, 2024, Green Light Packaging Limited demerged its air cushion business into a new entity called GLP Systems Limited. As part of the demerger a new parent company, Green Light Packaging Limited, acquired Green Light Packaging Limited via a share for share exchange. Following the demerger, on the 25th March, 2025, GLP Systems Limited was sold to GLP Systems EOT Trustees Limited.”
• “The company and its subsidiaries have provided a £49,250,000 guarantee to the Pension Protection Fund in respect of the Heygate Group Pension and Life Assurance Scheme.”

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

Filings

5

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

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