GERALD MCDONALD & COMPANY LIMITED
Company number 00258990 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Gerald McDonald & Company is a well-capitalised, specialist ingredient supplier that has consistently outperformed sector growth norms, with revenues expanding at approximately 5.4% CAGR over five years against a UK food manufacturing sector typically growing at 1–3%. Its balance sheet strength – with net assets of £17.4m representing 47% of turnover and cash of £8.9m – provides exceptional strategic flexibility and has enabled the transformative post year-end acquisition of Demos Ciclitira and George Harker, which broadens its product portfolio and sourcing reach. The principal risks centre on commodity price volatility, geographic revenue concentration in the UK, and the inherent vulnerabilities of a natural products supply chain, but the company's long-established procurement expertise, automation investment, and disciplined financial management position it as a resilient niche leader in the UK food ingredients market.
Shareholders' funds
£17,375,110
Balance sheet as at 2025-06-30
What it does
The principal activities of the company in the year under review were those of a holding company and merchants of citrus and other fruit juices, oil and derivatives and flavour and aroma chemicals.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1931-09-14
- Employees
- 51 (2025 accounts · was 49 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Cranes Farm Road, Basildon, Essex, SS14 3GT
- Postcode
- SS14 3GT
- Capital
- 5,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 8 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-06-30
- Next due by
- 2027-03-31
- Financial year end
- 30 June
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-21
- Next due by
- 2027-08-04
Nature of business (SIC)
- 10320 Manufacture of fruit and vegetable juice
Officers 5 current · 6 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA367712 (Tier 1), registered since 2018.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- geraldmcdonald.com
- Phone
- 01268 244900, 01268 244910
Fruit Juices, Citrus & Fruit Concentrates, Comminute Ingredients, Fruit Purees, Citrus, Soft & Exotic Fruit Derivatives - Herbs, Spices and Curry Powders.
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 97 similar companies in SS — measured against the wider sector
3rd largest employer among its local peers (51 staff).
2nd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1931.