FREEMANS CONFECTIONERY SUPPLIES LIMITED
Company number 02798360 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Freemans Confectionery Supplies is a cash-generative, family-owned wholesale distributor with a 30-year track record, £25M revenue, and an exceptionally strong liquidity position that has enabled £8.6M in dividend extraction while retaining over £7M in cash reserves. The company's strategic challenge is not viability—it is clearly sustainable—but vitality: margin compression, conservative capital allocation, and a lack of visible growth investment suggest a business optimizing for family extraction rather than long-term competitive positioning, which risks gradual erosion of its market position in an evolving wholesale landscape.
Shareholders' funds
£6,308,160
Balance sheet as at 2025-10-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of wholesalers of food and confectionery products.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1993-03-11
- Employees
- 24 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- National Distribution Centre, Fryers Road, Walsall, West Midlands, WS2 7LZ
- Postcode
- WS2 7LZ
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Medium
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-10-31
- Next due by
- 2027-07-31
- Financial year end
- 31 October
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-03-11
- Next due by
- 2027-03-25
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46390 Non-specialised wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco
Officers 6 current · 1 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB029569 (Tier 2), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- freemansconfectionery.com
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTRE, FRYERS ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 7LZ | 2000-05-11 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 17 similar companies in WS
3rd largest employer among its local peers (24 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1993.
Competitors Walsall
This company ranks 1 among non-specialised wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco in Walsall.
The class of 1993
49%
of the 25,070 companies incorporated in 1993 are still active today; 48% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.