BAIRD FOODS HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Cash
£3.4M
+17.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£7.9M
+3.3% vs 2024
Employees
83
+12.2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£2.2M
+40.4% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-10-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-10-31 | 2025-10-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £43,731,359 | £50,897,680 | +16.4% | |
| Operating profit | £1,446,953 | £2,199,850 | +52% | |
| Profit before tax | £1,580,730 | £2,219,181 | +40.4% | |
| Net profit | £1,185,866 | £1,654,439 | +39.5% | |
| Cash | £2,922,983 | £3,421,741 | +17.1% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,950,847 | £8,320,009 | +4.6% | |
| Net assets | £7,598,865 | £7,853,303 | +3.3% | |
| Equity | £7,598,865 | £7,853,303 | +3.3% | |
| Average employees | 74 | 83 | +12.2% | |
| Wages | £3,728,866 | £4,514,429 | +21.1% | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-10-31 | 2025-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.3% | 4.3% | |
| Net margin | 2.7% | 3.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 18.2% | 26.4% | |
| Current ratio | 2.01x | 2.05x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- BK Plus Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group's and parent company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- BAIRD FOODS HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
- Baird Foods Limited 100%
- Baird Foods Services Limited 100%
Significant events
- “In October 2024 the group moved to be part of an Employee Ownership Trust ("EOT"), model details of which are provided in the notes to the financial statements. The EOT model provides an opportunity to secure the long term succession for the business in a sustainable structure.”
- “On 19 August 2025, Baird Foods Retail Limited, a 100% owned subsidiary of Baird Foods Holdings Limited, was dissolved at Companies House.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAIRD, Barry Gilbert | Director | 2017-01-10 | Aug 1981 | British |
| BAIRD, Nicholas Robert | Director | 2017-01-10 | Jun 1955 | British |
| BAIRD, Tony Lawrence | Director | 2017-01-10 | Aug 1981 | British |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baird Foods Eot Trustee Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2024-10-11 | Active |
| Mr Nicholas Robert Baird | Individual | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors | 2017-01-10 | Ceased 2024-10-11 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 30 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2020-01-15 MA Memorandum articles
- 2020-01-15 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-05-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-01-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-10-25 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-10-25 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-08-31 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-05-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-01-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-01-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-01-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-05-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-03-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-05-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-01-15 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2020-01-15 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2020-01-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-04-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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.