A 1 BACON COMPANY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-01-31 (in 8mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-15 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-01
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+91.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£7M
+2.8% vs 2024
Employees
73
+2.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£2M
-31% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-04-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £45,405,098 | £43,784,214 | |
| Operating profit | £2,364,919 | £1,661,925 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,293,615 | £1,582,922 | |
| Net profit | £1,745,503 | £1,184,032 | |
| Cash | £897,615 | £1,721,574 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,872,815 | £7,975,471 | |
| Net assets | £6,922,324 | £7,118,936 | |
| Equity | £6,922,324 | £7,118,936 | |
| Average employees | 71 | 73 | |
| Wages | £2,415,301 | £2,754,194 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £279,244 | £239,186 |
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
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-04-30 vs 2024-04-30
-
Turnover
-3.6%
£45,405,098 £43,784,214
-
Cash
+91.8%
£897,615 £1,721,574
-
Net assets
+2.8%
£6,922,324 £7,118,936
-
Employees
+2.8%
71 73
-
Operating profit
-29.7%
£2,364,919 £1,661,925
-
Profit before tax
-31%
£2,293,615 £1,582,922
-
Wages
+14%
£2,415,301 £2,754,194
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 5.2% | 3.8% | |
| Net margin | 3.8% | 2.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 30.0% | 20.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.18x | 1.24x | |
| Interest cover | 40.74x | 15.31x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Balfour Sanson
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The company directors are both satisfied and confident that the company continues to be a going concern.”
Significant events
- “Port charges related to import controls from the EU were introduced on 30 April 2024, adding significant cost per container purchased.”
- “Raw material prices increased in Quarter 4 due to FMD in Germany, resulting instead of a usual 13% decline, an increase equal to 21% extra purchase cost. Pricing increased by 8% through Quarter 1 and as a result contracts became unprofitably priced.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHROSBREE, Richard James | Secretary | 2022-10-12 | — | — |
| BEREI, Graham Robert | Director | 2025-07-01 | Sep 1982 | British |
| CANNON, Hugo James | Director | 2022-06-20 | Sep 1995 | British |
| CANNON, Robert James | Director | 1992-01-06 | Oct 1964 | British |
| SHROSBREE, Richard James | Director | 2000-10-02 | Oct 1969 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CANNON, Caroline Anne | Secretary | 1993-07-12 | 2003-12-31 |
| CANNON, Mark Nicholas | Secretary | 2021-10-01 | 2022-10-11 |
| CANNON, Robert James | Secretary | — | 1993-07-12 |
| SHROSBREE, Richard James | Secretary | 2004-01-01 | 2021-10-01 |
| CANNON, Caroline Anne | Director | 1993-07-12 | 2000-03-15 |
| CANNON, Mark Nicholas | Director | 1993-07-12 | 2020-05-15 |
| CANNON, Thomas Michael | Director | — | 1993-04-27 |
| DAWSON, Peter Graham | Director | 2005-12-01 | 2024-12-13 |
| HIND, Steven | Director | 2017-09-04 | 2020-05-15 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Robert James Cannon | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 152 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-11-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-02-27 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-09 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2022-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-10-17 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2022-10-12 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2022-10-11 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2022-06-23 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2022-06-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-06-23 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.