CAWSTON PRESS LIMITED
Company number 04019196 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Cawston Press Limited is a well-established, growing FMCG business with a strong brand and improving financial profile. Revenue has grown consistently to £21.9M, operating profit tripled to £616k in 2024, and the balance sheet has strengthened materially over the past decade with net assets reaching £2.87M. The credit proposition is fundamentally sound, supported by prudent management (no dividends, reinvestment focus) and clean audit opinions. However, moderate leverage, demonstrated supply chain vulnerability, raw material cost inflation, and FX/tariff exposures warrant a conditional approach with appropriate covenants and monitoring.
Shareholders' funds
£2,869,432
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company and group continued to be the manufacture and wholesaling of soft drinks.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2000-06-21
- Employees
- 35 (2024 accounts · was 34 in 2023)
- Registered office
- Timsons Business Centre, Bath Road, Kettering, Northants, England, NN16 8NQ
- Postcode
- NN16 8NQ
- Capital
- 246,558 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-10
- Next due by
- 2027-07-24
Nature of business (SIC)
- 10320 Manufacture of fruit and vegetable juice
- 11070 Manufacture of soft drinks; production of mineral waters and other bottled waters
- 46341 Wholesale of fruit and vegetable juices, mineral water and soft drinks
Officers 7 current · 5 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 1
£33,450,825 total awarded value where published.
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Contact details
- Website
- cawstonpress.com
- Phone
- 0159554698216, 01770226679, 02799591596
Life's Best Pressed, Just Pressed Fruit, No Jiggery-Pokery. We've been making delicious soft drinks since 1986 using pressed fruit. Discover our range from our sparkling Rhubarb cans, to Cloudy Apple or Beetroot pressed juice, to our kids fruit water cartons
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| CAWSTON VALE LIMITED | 2016-07-13 |
| PRETTY 551 LIMITED | 2000-08-14 |
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| SATRA INNOVATION PARK SATRA HOUSE ROCKINGHAM ROAD, KETTERING, NORTHANTS, NN16 9JD | 2016-03-03 |
| 4 READING ROAD, PANGBOURNE, BERKSHIRE, RG8 7LY | 2013-08-20 |
| TOPCROFT HOUSE, CALVES LANE, STOKE BY NAYLAND, COLCHESTER, ESSEX CO6 4RR | 2000-10-12 |
| ELM HOUSE, 25 ELM STREET, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK IP1 2AD | 2000-07-12 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 151 similar companies in NN — measured against the wider sector
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (35 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2000.
The class of 2000
41%
of the 75,534 companies incorporated in 2000 are still active today; 56% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.