KUDOS BLENDS LIMITED
Company number 03827452 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Kudos Blends is a well-capitalized niche specialist that has compounded equity value at approximately 17.5% annually over the past decade through disciplined reinvestment, creating a business with substantial strategic optionality. The immediate priority is diagnosing and reversing the slight 2024 revenue softening while accelerating international expansion—the primary lever for doubling the business. With £5.7M in cash and negligible debt, the company has the financial capacity to pursue organic growth and selective acquisition, but must address governance concentration and succession planning to sustain long-term value creation.
Shareholders' funds
£13,179,783
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company is Manufacture and supply of technically driven leavening agents.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1999-08-18
- Employees
- 54 (2025 accounts · was 55 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Old Station Business Park Bridgnorth Road, Cleobury Mortimer, Kidderminster, England, DY14 8SY
- Postcode
- DY14 8SY
- Capital
- 22,727 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-04-06
- Next due by
- 2027-04-20
Nature of business (SIC)
- 10890 Manufacture of other food products not elsewhere classified
Officers 2 current · 5 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA661248 (Tier 2), registered since 2020.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- kudosblends.com
- Phone
- +44 01299 271, 0184328607
The world's leading manufacturer of technically driven baking powders and leavening agents.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| HIDDENFORT LIMITED | 1999-10-28 |
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| UNIT 4 OLD TOWN STATION, BUSINESS PARK BRIDGNORTH ROAD, CLEOBURY MORTIMER, WORCESTERSHIRE DY14 8SY | 2005-10-28 |
| 35 HIGH STREET, CLEOBURY MORTIMER, KIDDERMINSTER, WORCESTERSHIRE DY14 8DQ | 2002-10-09 |
| 33 LIONEL STREET, BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS B3 1AB | 2001-10-16 |
| 61 FAIRVIEW AVENUE, GILLINGHAM, KENT ME8 0QP | 1999-11-11 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 11 similar companies in DY
The largest employer among its local peers (54 staff).
2nd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1999.
Competitors Dudley
This company ranks 1 among manufacture of other food products not elsewhere classified in Dudley.
The class of 1999
42%
of the 64,735 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 7 titles
- Freehold
- 1
- Leasehold
- 6
- Most recent registration
- 2024-05-01
- Price paid, where recorded
- £465,000
- Where
- Shropshire (7)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SL200891 | Shropshire | Leasehold | 2024-05-01 | £250,000 |
| SL283019 | Shropshire | Freehold | 2023-07-11 | £215,000 |
| SL259279 | Shropshire | Leasehold | 2019-04-10 | — |
| SL239465 | Shropshire | Leasehold | 2016-04-27 | — |
| SL229753 | Shropshire | Leasehold | 2014-10-16 | — |
| SL229715 | Shropshire | Leasehold | 2014-10-15 | — |
| SL229716 | Shropshire | Leasehold | 2014-10-15 | — |
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