FRONTBENCH 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

  +17.7%

  £35,686,706 → £41,994,305

• Cash

  -8.2%

  £11,254,440 → £10,336,682

• Net assets

  +7.5%

  £32,128,007 → £34,551,554

  highest in 6 filed years

• Employees

  +2.5%

  408 → 418

  highest in 6 filed years

• Operating profit

  +39.2%

  £2,098,698 → £2,921,940

• Profit before tax

  +38.2%

  £2,452,761 → £3,389,146

• Wages

  +11.7%

  £12,227,190 → £13,658,360

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

Larking Gowen LLP

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 this, the directors consider that the Company and Group will have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, and at least twelve months from the date of signing these financial statements. They therefore continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing these financial statements.”

Group structure

1. FRONTBENCH LIMITED · parent
   1. Place UK Limited 100% · England · soft fruit growing and food processing and supplying IQF produce to retailers and other food manufacturers
   2. Phaseolus Limited 100% · England · supply of frozen beans and pulses

Significant events

• “In February 2025 the subsidiary company R. & J.M. Place Limited distributed by dividend in specie land and property and an investment asset with a combined book value of £4.8m, together with a cash dividend of £8.9m, to the Company.”

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

Filings

8

last 12 months

Capital events

2

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.