DIRECT TABLE FOODS LIMITED, IP28 6RX : Companies House Number 01816960

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Shareholders' funds

£64,064,581

Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31

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What it does

Sale of meat products

The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.

Overview

Company type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 1984-05-17
Employees: 388 (2025 accounts · was 452 in 2024)
Registered office: Saxham Business Park, Little Saxham, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP28 6RX
Postcode: IP28 6RX
Capital: 685,049 GBP
Accounts category: Full
Charges: 1 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: 2026-03-27
Next due by: 2027-04-10

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Nature of business (SIC)

10110 Processing and preserving of meat

Officers 6 current · 25 resigned

Jeremy Adam CORNES Director

Appointed 2022-10-31

Guillaume Jean Joel Daniel AVRAIN Secretary

Appointed 2022-09-30

Andrew Grahame CLARKE Director

Appointed 2021-10-08

Guillaume Jean Joel Daniel AVRAIN Director

Appointed 2021-10-08

Neil Terence TAYLOR Director

Appointed 2021-10-08

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Group structure

Controlled by CPC FOODS LIMITED — since 2024-12-27

From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.

Modern slavery statement

Registered a modern slavery statement for 2023 (period to 2022-12-31) — 2 years on the registry.

Read the statement summary on the government modern slavery statement registry. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Data protection registration

Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z5708833 (Tier 3), registered since 2001.

Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Gender pay gap

8.9%

Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity

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Contact details

Website: directtable.co.uk

Direct Table Foods, manufacturers of quality bacon products to the UK retail, foodservice and manufacturing markets

Previous company names

Name	Date changed
LARK VALLEY FOODS LIMITED	2003-09-29
VALEROSE LIMITED	1984-07-04

Previous registered addresses 6

Address	Changed on
LAMDIN ROAD, BURY ST EDMUNDS, SUFFOLK, IP32 6NU	2006-03-07
LAMDIN ROAD, BURY ST EDMUNDS, SUFFOLK, IP32 6NU	1998-03-24
82 ST JOHN STREET, LONDON, EC1W 4JM	1996-08-16
18 LANGTON PLACE, BURY ST EDMUNDS, SUFFOLK, IP33 1NE	1995-03-28
TAVISTOCK PLACE, LONDON, WC1H 9RA	1989-04-13
CHURCHGATE HOUSE, CHURCHGATE STREET, BURY ST EDMUNDS, SUFFOLK	1988-01-22

Among its peers

Top 10%

by shareholders' funds, of 10 similar companies in IP

The largest employer among its local peers (388 staff).

The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1984.

Competitors Ipswich

2. CLEVELEYS FOODS LIMITED

£5,314,190
3. SUFFOLK FOOD HALL LIMITED

£1,185,016
4. LANE FARM COUNTRY FOODS LIMITED

£633,963
5. THE WILD MEAT COMPANY LIMITED

£269,071
6. THURSTON BUTCHERS LIMITED

£123,576

This company ranks 1 among processing and preserving of meat in Ipswich.

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The class of 1984

51%

of the 14,117 companies incorporated in 1984 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.

A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.

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Property in England & Wales 3 titles

Freehold: 3
Most recent registration: 2012-02-06
Where: Suffolk (3)

Title number	County	Tenure	Registered	Price paid
SK289200	Suffolk	Freehold	2012-02-06	—
SK335506	Suffolk	Freehold	2012-02-06	—
SK266223	Suffolk	Freehold	2005-07-15	—

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