FIFE CREAMERY LIMITED
Company number SC069753 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Fife Creamery has built an impressive growth story, nearly doubling revenue over five years while simultaneously improving margins—evidence of genuine strategic value creation in a challenging wholesale sector. However, the current capital structure, shaped by significant shareholder distributions, leaves the business with limited financial flexibility at precisely the moment when reinvestment is needed to sustain growth and defend against macroeconomic headwinds. The critical strategic imperative is to rebalance the tension between shareholder returns and business reinvestment, ensuring that the balance sheet can support both operational resilience and the next phase of expansion.
Shareholders' funds
£2,739,368
Balance sheet as at 2025-09-30
What it does
The principal activity of the group in the year under review was that of wholesale distributors of food and food products.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1979-10-24
- Employees
- 168 (2025 accounts · was 178 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Fife Creamery Limited, Randolph Place, Randolph Industrial Estate, Kirkcaldy, Scotland, KY1 2YX
- Postcode
- KY1 2YX
- Capital
- 7,503 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 5 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-09-30
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-24
- Next due by
- 2027-08-07
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46330 Wholesale of dairy products, eggs and edible oils and fats
Officers 5 current · 10 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by CREED FOODSERVICE LIMITED — since 2026-07-01
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z7564768 (Tier 2), registered since 2003.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- fifecreamery.co.uk
- Phone
- 01592655757
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| RANDOLPH PLACE, KIRKCALDY, KY1 2YX | 2017-06-26 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 225 similar companies in KY — measured against the wider sector
The largest employer among its local peers (168 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1979.
The class of 1979
49%
of the 8,387 companies incorporated in 1979 are still active today; 43% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.