BRITISH BAKELS LIMITED
Company number 00430208 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
British Bakels Limited presents a mixed risk profile characterized by strong underlying solvency but tight operational margins. While the company benefits from a robust asset base, significant capital investment, and the financial backing of its global parent group, profitability is severely compressed, and the business faces notable commercial headwinds from the loss of a major retail client and macroeconomic inflation. The transition of revenue streams and the management of parent-company debt will be critical determinants of future financial stability.
Shareholders' funds
£19,748,636
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of the manufacturing and supply of food ingredients, primarily to the bakery sector. The customer base consists of industrial bread and confectionary bakeries, wholesalers, artisan bakeries, supermarkets and food service companies.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1947-02-25
- Employees
- 427 (2024 accounts · was 242 in 2023)
- Registered office
- Granville Way, Off Launton Road, Bicester, Oxon, OX26 4JT
- Postcode
- OX26 4JT
- Capital
- 1,500,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-31
- Next due by
- 2026-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-04-25
- Next due by
- 2027-05-09
Nature of business (SIC)
- 10890 Manufacture of other food products not elsewhere classified
Officers 4 current · 13 resigned
Contact details
- Website
- britishbakels.co.uk
- Phone
- +44 1869247098, +44 1512942200
Manufacturing, distributing and technically supporting high quality bakery ingredients to the global bakery market since 1904.
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 238 BATH ROAD, SLOUGH, BUCKS, SL1 4DU | 1995-09-20 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 30 similar companies in OX
The largest employer among its local peers (427 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1947.
Competitors Oxford
This company ranks 1 among manufacture of other food products not elsewhere classified in Oxford.
Property in England & Wales 12 titles
- Freehold
- 11
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2023-12-19
- Price paid, where recorded
- £4,162,300
- Where
- Merseyside (8), Oxfordshire (4)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MS109805 | Merseyside | Freehold | 2023-12-19 | — |
| MS209885 | Merseyside | Freehold | 2023-12-19 | — |
| MS262956 | Merseyside | Freehold | 2023-12-19 | — |
| MS317230 | Merseyside | Freehold | 2023-12-19 | — |
| MS322385 | Merseyside | Freehold | 2023-12-19 | — |
| MS351169 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2023-12-19 | — |
| MS493858 | Merseyside | Freehold | 2023-12-19 | — |
| MS633101 | Merseyside | Freehold | 2023-12-19 | £254,800 |
| ON336514 | Oxfordshire | Freehold | 2017-11-02 | £3,600,000 |
| ON320855 | Oxfordshire | Freehold | 2015-09-07 | £307,500 |
| ON290988 | Oxfordshire | Freehold | 2010-04-09 | — |
| ON104207 | Oxfordshire | Freehold | 1987-06-16 | — |
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