{"name":"BURNS THE BREAD LIMITED","company_number":"07518404","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"2011-02-04","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"14 High Street, Glastonbury, Somerset, BA6 9DU","postcode":"BA6 9DU","sic_codes":[{"code":10710,"description":"Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Total Exemption Full","year_end":"30 April","last_made_up_to":"2026-04-30","next_due":"2028-01-31"},"employees":{"count":70,"accounts_date":"2026-04-30"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2026-04-30","net_assets":1402979,"cash":598602,"average_employees":70},{"financial_date":"2025-04-30","net_assets":1298118,"cash":457265,"average_employees":70},{"financial_date":"2024-04-30","net_assets":1183863,"cash":477505,"average_employees":70},{"financial_date":"2023-04-30","net_assets":1024027,"cash":349160},{"financial_date":"2022-04-30","net_assets":818979,"cash":539543}],"officers":{"current":5,"resigned":1,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":0,"outstanding":0},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_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.","website":"http://www.burnsthebread.co.uk/","links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/burns-the-bread","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/burns-the-bread/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/burns-the-bread/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07518404","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/burns-the-bread/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/burns-the-bread/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/burns-the-bread/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/burns-the-bread/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/burns-the-bread"}