COOK TRADING LIMITED

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

  +9.9%

  £119,750,094 → £131,628,416

• Cash

  -25.8%

  £2,406,323 → £1,785,047

• Net assets

  +2.3%

  £20,910,798 → £21,389,577

• Employees

  +6.9%

  1,765 → 1,886

• Operating profit

  +7.4%

  £3,850,222 → £4,133,880

• Profit before tax

  +11%

  £2,474,125 → £2,746,218

• Wages

  +13.8%

  £35,105,306 → £39,953,498

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. COOK TRADING LIMITED 2004-10-18 → present
2. COOK FOOD LIMITED 2004-09-23 → 2004-10-18
3. COOK TRADING LIMITED 2002-12-06 → 2004-09-23

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

RSM UK Audit LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation based on budgets and forecasts including cash flow forecasts that the company has adequate resources (including the availability of a revolving credit facility and term loan facility) to continue to operate within the associated covenants of these facilities and to meet all liabilities as they fall due for a period of at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements. Therefore on that basis, the Directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. COOK TRADING LIMITED · parent
   1. Cook Food Limited 100% · Dormant
   2. Cook Kitchens Limited 100% · Dormant
   3. Cook Puddings Limited 100% · Dormant
   4. Cook Retail Limited 100% · Dormant

Significant events

• “Project Vanilla - the construction of our new Cold Store - will begin to require significant investment in the back end of 2025/6 and early 2027/8, so we expect this figure to grow in the next couple of years.”
• “Project Vanilla (ice, ice, baby) is on track to open by late 2026, ideal timing from a broader business perspective.”
• “The first is Project Vanilla, the construction of our new Cold Store. It will provide us with a state of the art logistics centre to support our business for the medium term.”
• “The second is Project Wonka, delivering automation and digitisation in our kitchens.”
• “Project Vanilla to build a new Cold Store and Logistics centre next to our Classics kitchen in Sittingbourne. The new cold store will come on line in late 2026.”
• “Also vulnerable to age is our first Sittingbourne kitchen, CKK. This is also going to be the beneficiary of an investment programme, which will renew its old freezers and water filtration plant, as well as increase its capacity. This programme will run through 2026.”

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

Filings

7

last 12 months

Capital events

1

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

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.