HUNT’S FOODSERVICE HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-17 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-03-03
Watchouts
Cash
£19K
+192.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£18M
+12.5% highest in 3 filed years
Employees
550
-8.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£3M
+8,932.3% 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
3-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
3-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-03-31 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £116,829,059 | £112,500,004 | |
| Operating profit | — | £441,344 | £3,128,905 | |
| Profit before tax | — | £30,705 | £2,773,377 | |
| Net profit | £340,542 | £317,969 | £1,962,733 | |
| Cash | — | £6,410 | £18,760 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £22,633,282 | £23,980,713 | |
| Net assets | £10,188,544 | £15,703,681 | £17,666,414 | |
| Equity | — | £15,703,681 | £17,666,414 | |
| Average employees | 4 | 601 | 550 | |
| Wages | £0 | £16,293,278 | £14,406,714 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | £488,393 | £477,430 |
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
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Turnover
-3.7%
£116,829,059 £112,500,004
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Cash
+192.7%
£6,410 £18,760
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Net assets
+12.5%
£15,703,681 £17,666,414
highest in 3 filed years
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Employees
-8.5%
601 550
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Operating profit
+608.9%
£441,344 £3,128,905
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Profit before tax
+8,932.3%
£30,705 £2,773,377
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Wages
-11.6%
£16,293,278 £14,406,714
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 | 2023-03-31 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | 0.4% | 2.8% | |
| Net margin | — | 0.3% | 1.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 1.9% | 13.0% | |
| Current ratio | — | 1.23x | 1.18x | |
| Interest cover | — | 1.05x | 8.77x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Old Mill Audit Limited
- 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 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
- HUNT’S FOODSERVICE HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
- Hunt's Food Group Limited 100%
- Thorners Holdings Limited 100%
- Jon Thorner's Limited 100%
- The Fine Food Company Limited 100%
- Hunt's Foodservice (Bristol) Limited 100%
- Hunt's Foodservice (Winchester) Limited 100%
- Lostwithiel Property Company Limited 100%
- Purlieu Properties (Sherborne) Limited 100%
- Queenswood Natural Foods Limited 100%
- R G Frozen Food Distributors Limited 100%
- Sunnyside Distribution Limited 100%
- Cornish Farmhouse Frozen Foods Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The group opened the Farmyard Kitchen at Blackmarsh Farm where the group was founded in 1912 in January. Then acquired Cornish Connection a pie, pasty and sausage roll specialist in February emphasising the business commitment to growth.”
- “In the current year, the group disposed of its business carried out at the Wessex Hotel as part of its discontinued activity plan for the hotel trade. This disposal occurred in order to focus on the expansion of the group's other business operations.”
- “On 7 March 2025 the group acquired the business of Cornish Connections.”
- “On 5 March 2025 the group acquired 100% of the issued capital of The Fine Food Company Limited.”
- “Since the year end, the group acquired the entire share capital of Longman Cheese Sales Ltd on 4 April 2025, and also the trade and assets of an existing fleet business, transferred to a new subsidiary company on 1 September 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HUNT, Richard Charles Ian | Director | 2021-03-04 | May 1963 | British |
| HUNT, Thomas Ian John | Director | 2021-03-04 | Apr 1992 | British |
| NORRIS, Melvyn | Director | 2021-03-16 | Aug 1961 | British |
| VINCENT, William George | Director | 2023-10-10 | Feb 1989 | British |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUCH, Michael John | Director | 2021-03-16 | 2024-05-15 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Richard Charles Ian Hunt | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2021-03-04 | Ceased 2025-10-22 |
| Mr Thomas Ian John Hunt | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2021-03-04 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 26 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-01-26 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-01-26 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-12-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-11-05 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-03-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-12-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-05-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-10-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-03-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-27 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-01-26 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-01-26 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-08-24 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-08-17 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-08-15 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-06-07 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-06-07 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-04-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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.