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Next accounts due

2026-09-30 (in 4mo)

Last filed for 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-12-19 (in 7mo)

Last made up 2025-12-05

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£667K

-56.1% vs 2023

Net assets

£7M

+27.4% vs 2023

Employees

165

-8.8% vs 2023

Profit before tax

£3M

+32.6% vs 2023

Accounts

5-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31

Metric Trend 2020-12-312021-12-312022-12-312023-12-312024-12-31
Turnover £37,140,360£35,810,722
Operating profit £2,393,094£2,860,078
Profit before tax £2,049,518£2,716,971
Net profit £1,884,691£1,825,850
Cash £1,520,427£667,179
Total assets less current liabilities £11,294,130£9,889,737
Net assets £5,609,697£7,146,547
Equity £3,883,569£4,342,017£3,725,006£5,609,697£7,146,547
Average employees 181165
Wages £6,005,510£6,090,837
Directors' remuneration £328,314£259,999

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

FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31

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 2020-12-312021-12-312022-12-312023-12-312024-12-31
Operating margin 6.4%8.0%
Net margin 5.1%5.1%
Return on capital employed 21.2%28.9%
Current ratio 1.16x1.08x
Interest cover 5.14x12.77x

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
Azets Audit Services
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“The directors, after making enquiries and having considered the company's business, its financial plans and the facilities available to finance the business, have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The directors have received confirmation from Orkla Food Ingredients AS, that it will provide ongoing financial support if required to the extent necessary to enable the Company to meet its financial liabilities as they fall due for a period of twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements. Accordingly, the directors are comfortable with the company's ability to continue as a going concern and continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

  1. ORCHARD VALLEY FOODS LIMITED · parent
    1. Food Ingredients International Ltd 100% · The company does not trade and is dormant
    2. Orchard Valley Foods GmbH 100% · Germany · Distribution to foodservice and wholesale

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

People

5 active · 11 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
DALY, Jessica Louise Director 2026-04-01 Aug 1986 British
DOWNS, Angela Director 2023-09-08 Feb 1971 British
LOUWERSE, Cornelius Herbert Director 2023-06-16 Apr 1974 Dutch
OSMUNDSEN, Tor Agner Director 2017-03-31 Sep 1978 Norwegian
OSMUNDSEN, Ulrik Director 2017-03-31 Jan 1976 Danish
Show 11 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
EVANS, Amy Jane Secretary 2013-08-30 2017-03-31
FORRESTER, Jacqueline Ann Secretary 2003-12-10 2013-08-30
BLUMBERG, Cherry Clair Director 2005-09-05 2023-12-31
COOKE, Richard Martin Director 2016-03-01 2023-06-16
FORRESTER, Michael George Director 2003-12-10 2021-09-28
HODGSON, Gillian Mary Director 2014-05-06 2016-01-08
ROBERTS, Henry William Director 2012-06-01 2017-03-31
STROMSTAD, Tommy Director 2017-03-31 2025-07-01
TAYLOR, John Director 2011-07-01 2016-09-30
WILLIAMS, Gary Mark Director 2016-07-01 2017-03-31
WODSKOU, Michael Director 2017-03-31 2018-10-01

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Nic Enterprises Limited Corporate entity Shares 75–100% 2018-12-20 Ceased 2018-12-20
Mr Richard Martin Cooke Individual Significant influence 2017-12-21 Ceased 2018-12-20
Ulrik Moes Individual Significant influence 2017-12-21 Ceased 2018-12-20
Tor Osmundsen Individual Significant influence 2017-12-21 Ceased 2018-12-20
Mr Michael George Forrester Individual Significant influence 2017-12-21 Ceased 2018-12-20
Tommy Stromstad Individual Significant influence 2017-12-21 Ceased 2018-12-20
John Aalhuizen Individual Significant influence 2017-12-21 Ceased 2018-12-20
Thomas Bruck Individual Significant influence 2017-12-21 Ceased 2018-12-20
Mr Bernard Bertram Pooley Individual Significant influence 2017-12-21 Ceased 2018-12-20
Nicholas Philip Venditti Individual Significant influence 2017-12-21 Ceased 2018-12-20
Orkla Food Ingrediants As Corporate entity Significant influence 2017-12-21 Ceased 2018-12-20
Idun Industri As Corporate entity Significant influence 2017-12-21 Ceased 2018-12-20
Orkla Asa Corporate entity Significant influence 2017-12-21 Ceased 2018-12-20
Cherry Clair Blumberg Individual Significant influence 2017-12-21 Ceased 2018-12-20
Mr Michael Wodskou Individual Significant influence 2017-12-21 Ceased 2018-10-01
Mrs Nadia Millar Individual Significant influence 2017-12-21 Ceased 2018-10-01
Nic Enterprises Ltd Corporate entity Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors 2017-12-21 Active
Mrs Cherry Clair Blumberg Individual Shares 25–50% 2016-04-06 Ceased 2017-03-31
Mr Michael George Forrester Individual Shares 50–75% 2016-04-06 Ceased 2017-03-31

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 128 total filings

Date Type Category Description
2026-04-02 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2025-12-09 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2025-08-04 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full PDF
2025-07-14 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2024-12-11 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2024-06-10 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full PDF
2024-01-15 CH01 officers Change person director company with change date PDF
2024-01-03 TM01 officers Termination director company PDF
2024-01-03 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2023-12-21 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2023-09-15 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2023-09-04 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full PDF
2023-06-20 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2023-06-19 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2022-12-23 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2022-11-01 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2022-03-09 DISS40 gazette Gazette filings brought up to date
2022-03-08 GAZ1 gazette Gazette notice compulsory
2022-03-03 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2021-12-22 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

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.

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