ALAN BAYBUTT & SONS 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

  +4.4%

  £16,410,263 → £17,126,370

• Cash

  -29.2%

  £216 → £153

• Net assets

  +12.8%

  £2,263,377 → £2,552,687

  highest in 6 filed years

• Employees

  +7.1%

  127 → 136

  highest in 6 filed years

• Operating profit

  -10.8%

  £1,306,801 → £1,165,777

• Profit before tax

  -11.8%

  £1,245,101 → £1,098,348

• Wages

  +8.9%

  £4,742,719 → £5,166,780

  highest in 4 filed years

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

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

MHA Audit Services LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The company has retained its close links with key customers who are looking to source goods from the next cycle of crops. At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have also secured sufficient labour to harvest its crops in the upcoming Summer season. Taking this into account, along with the budgets prepared and evidence obtained from interim accounts, the directors have at the time of approving the financial statements every expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and at the very least, greater than one year from the date of the audit report. As a consequence they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. ALAN BAYBUTT & SONS LIMITED · parent
   1. Crossens Group Limited 50%

Significant events

• “The period under review saw an increase in turnover of 4.36%. Staff costs increased by 9.58% which was due to minimum wage increases and changes to employers national insurance contributions. The business continued to keep tight control on all other costs. During the year, the company continued to invest heavily in Plant & Machinery to increase productivity and efficiency to handle larger volumes of work. The company has successfully passed all external audits from BRC, Red Tractor, Leaf Marque, GlobalGAP, SEDEX, GRASP and Tesco Nurture along with each audit carried out by its customers. The company continues to invest in research and development to further extend the season and in order to develop new product lines and growing and harvesting practices throughout the business.”

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.