FOSTERS BAKERY (STAINCROSS) LIMITED, S75 6AS : Companies House Number 00637941

Executive summary

Fosters Bakery possesses a rare combination of niche market positioning, operational infrastructure, and financial strength that provides a credible platform for accelerated growth—yet currently operates below its strategic potential, with £4.4M in cash earning minimal returns while revenue stagnates and margins compress. The inflection point is clear: the completed site renovation, energy infrastructure investments, and BRC AA certification represent sunk strategic costs that now require commercial activation through aggressive marketing investment and international market development. Leadership must transition from a capital-preservation mindset to a capital-deployment strategy, or risk allowing this well-positioned business to drift toward low-growth mediocrity despite its considerable assets.

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Shareholders' funds

£7,674,952

Balance sheet as at 2025-10-25

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What it does

The principal activity of the company in the period under review was that of bakers and confectioners.

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

Overview

Company type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 1959-09-25
Employees: 137 (2025 accounts · was 147 in 2024)
Registered office: Fosters Bakery, Towngate, Mapplewell, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 6AS
Postcode: S75 6AS
Capital: 1,971 GBP
Accounts category: Medium

Accounts

Last made up to: 2025-10-25
Next due by: 2027-07-31
Financial year end: 31 October

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated: 2026-04-24
Next due by: 2027-05-08

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Nature of business (SIC)

10710 Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes

Officers 4 current · 5 resigned

MR Ian Thomas TAYLOR Director

Appointed 1996-05-10

MR JOHN ROBERT FOSTER Director

BAKER Appointed 1992-05-09

MR JOHN ROBERT FOSTER Secretary

MANAGING DIRECTOR Appointed 1992-05-09

John Robert FOSTER Director

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Group structure 1 subsidiary

WELLFOODS LIMITED

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

Contact details

Website: fostersbakery.co.uk
Phone: 01226215898, 01226382877, 07974442864

Fosters Bakery is a wholesale bakery supplying high quality vegan and vegetarian bread and confectionery for food service.

Previous registered addresses 1

Address	Changed on
TOWNGATE,, MAPPLEWELL,, NR. BARNSLEY S75 6AS	2006-04-26

Among its peers

Top 5%

by shareholders' funds, of 40 similar companies in S

3rd largest employer among its local peers (137 staff).

The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1959.

No.2 of the largest manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes companies in Sheffield →

Competitors Sheffield

1. HAYWOOD AND PADGETT LIMITED

£34,384,346
3. POTTS (BAKERS) LIMITED

£1,618,620
4. OLAWA BAKERY LTD

£1,200,859
5. BROOK BAKERY LIMITED

£1,189,709
6. THE WELBECK BAKEHOUSE LIMITED

£855,000

This company ranks 2 among manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes in Sheffield.

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Property in England & Wales 5 titles

Freehold: 2
Leasehold: 3
Most recent registration: 2025-04-07
Where: South Yorkshire (4), West Yorkshire (1)

Title number	County	Tenure	Registered	Price paid
SYK724834	South Yorkshire	Freehold	2025-04-07	—
SYK528158	South Yorkshire	Leasehold	2006-12-21	—
SYK516630	South Yorkshire	Freehold	2006-03-17	—
SYK512180	South Yorkshire	Leasehold	2005-12-14	—
WYK764433	West Yorkshire	Leasehold	2004-05-11	—

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