BURNS THE BREAD LIMITED
Company number 07518404 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Burns the Bread Limited is a vertically integrated craft bakery and retail operator in Somerset, and its balance sheet is materially stronger than the UK bakery manufacturing norm — debt-free, with a 4.3x current ratio, 30% of assets in cash and a nine-year net-asset CAGR of roughly 25%, though growth decelerated to 9.6% in FY2025 as labour and input cost pressures reached the business. Competitively it is an upper-tier regional independent, advantaged by freehold property, cash-based retail economics and owner-managed continuity, but constrained by sub-scale purchasing power, geographic concentration in Somerset and a 70-strong workforce exposed to National Living Wage and employer NIC increases. The key watch items are whether the heavy FY2025 reinvestment (£163,940) translates into estate growth, and whether the company can hold margin as sector cost inflation continues to compress craft bakery profitability.
Shareholders' funds
£1,402,979
Balance sheet as at 2026-04-30
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2011-02-04
- Employees
- 70 (2026 accounts)
- Registered office
- 14 High Street, Glastonbury, Somerset, BA6 9DU
- Postcode
- BA6 9DU
- Capital
- 203 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-04-30
- Next due by
- 2028-01-31
- Financial year end
- 30 April
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-12-06
- Next due by
- 2026-12-20
Nature of business (SIC)
- 10710 Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes
Officers 5 current · 1 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA744936 (Tier 2), registered since 2020.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- burnsthebread.co.uk
- Phone
- 01749677779, 01458832482, 01963350779
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 14 HIGH STREET, GLASTONBURY, SOMERSET, TA1 4AY, UNITED KINGDOM | 2011-03-31 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 23 similar companies in BA
The largest employer among its local peers (70 staff).
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 2011.
Competitors Bath
-
3. LIEVITO LTD
This company ranks 1 among manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes in Bath.
The class of 2011
24%
of the 295 companies in this sector incorporated in 2011 are still active today; 73% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 9 titles
- Freehold
- 3
- Leasehold
- 6
- Most recent registration
- 2024-04-26
- Price paid, where recorded
- £627,500
- Where
- Somerset (9)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST387375 | Somerset | Leasehold | 2024-04-26 | — |
| ST381747 | Somerset | Leasehold | 2023-08-24 | — |
| WS1036 | Somerset | Freehold | 2023-03-29 | £249,500 |
| WS94627 | Somerset | Leasehold | 2021-08-09 | — |
| WS93764 | Somerset | Leasehold | 2021-05-13 | — |
| WS93013 | Somerset | Leasehold | 2021-02-16 | — |
| ST136240 | Somerset | Freehold | 2019-09-23 | £213,000 |
| ST112783 | Somerset | Freehold | 2018-11-16 | £165,000 |
| WS54082 | Somerset | Leasehold | 2011-07-07 | — |
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