FARMERS FRESH LIMITED
Company number 03851239 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Farmers Fresh Limited is a well-established, significant-scale lamb abattoir operating in a challenging sector environment characterised by post-Brexit export friction, commodity price volatility, and rising input costs. While the company's 7.5% revenue decline and 11.8% volume reduction are concerning, margin improvement to 15.49% and a strongly deleveraged balance sheet (liabilities halved over two years) demonstrate operational resilience and financial discipline. The company's competitive position is solid within the mid-tier of UK lamb processors, though its role as a cash contributor within the Farmers First Limited group structure and its reliance on EU export markets introduce risks that warrant ongoing scrutiny.
Shareholders' funds
£13,786,353
Balance sheet as at 2025-05-30
What it does
an abattoir.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1999-09-30
- Employees
- 35 (2025 accounts · was 36 in 2024)
- Registered office
- The Abattoir, Rouncil Lane, Kenilworth, Warks, CV8 1NN
- Postcode
- CV8 1NN
- Capital
- 1 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-05-30
- Next due by
- 2027-02-28
- Financial year end
- 30 May
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-09-30
- Next due by
- 2026-10-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46320 Wholesale of meat and meat products
Officers 9 current · 17 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by FARMERS FIRST LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2024 (period to 2024-05-31) as part of the FARMERS FIRST LIMITED group statement — 5 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.
Contact details
- Website
- farmersfresh.uk
- Phone
- 01926853211, 01363720757
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| QUAYSHELFCO 737 LIMITED | 2000-03-21 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| DAVELA, LLANSTEPHAN LLYSWEN, BRECON, POWYS LD3 0AJ | 2006-02-16 |
| NARROW QUAY HOUSE, NARROW QUAY, BRISTOL, AVON BS1 4AH | 2000-03-17 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 27 similar companies in CV
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (35 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1999.
No.1 of the largest wholesale of meat and meat products companies in Coventry →
Competitors Coventry
This company ranks 1 among wholesale of meat and meat products in Coventry.
The class of 1999
43%
of the 64,736 companies incorporated in 1999 are still active today; 55% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 2 titles
- Freehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2012-07-02
- Where
- Warwickshire (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WK381967 | Warwickshire | Freehold | 2012-07-02 | — |
| WK391725 | Warwickshire | Freehold | 2012-07-02 | — |
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