REEVE THE BAKER LIMITED
Company number 02088228 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Reeve The Baker is a fundamentally sound and growing regional bakery business with strong EBITDA margins (20%) and a proven 85-year trading history. However, the aggressive dividend extraction policy—£1.713M declared against EBITDA of £2.31M—has eroded the equity base by 56% since 2022 and reduced cash reserves to critically low levels at £267K. Credit approval should be conditional on dividend restrictions and minimum cash covenants to protect the lender's position while the business continues to generate robust operational cash flow.
Shareholders' funds
£1,103,495
Balance sheet as at 2025-09-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of the production and retail distribution of bakery products.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1987-01-12
- Employees
- 208 (2025 accounts · was 199 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Kingsway Industrial Estate, Wilton, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP2 0AW
- Postcode
- SP2 0AW
- Capital
- 400 GBP
- Accounts category
- Medium
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-09-30
- Next due by
- 2027-06-30
- Financial year end
- 30 September
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-03-05
- Next due by
- 2027-03-19
Nature of business (SIC)
- 10710 Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes
Officers 2 current · 2 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by G & S REEVE HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2023-01-12
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA821977 (Tier 2), registered since 2020.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- reevethebaker.co.uk
Reeve the Baker is built in a long heritage of family, community and quality. Since 1940, we’ve been baking for the communities in the South West of England, using ingredients sourced locally. Still owned and managed by a third generation Reeve baker, you could say taste is our family tradition.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| COLTSPAN LIMITED | 1987-02-06 |
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 36 NORTH ST, WILTON, SALISBURY, SP2 OHJ | 1993-11-26 |
| HAINES WATTS, 43-55 MILFORD STREET, SALISBURY, SP1 28P | 1991-07-15 |
| 50 LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, LONDON, WC2A 3PF | 1987-02-24 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 8 similar companies in SP
The largest employer among its local peers (208 staff).
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1987.
Competitors Salisbury
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4. MATTIMIA LTD
This company ranks 1 among manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes in Salisbury.
The class of 1987
51%
of the 20,107 companies incorporated in 1987 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 14 titles
- Freehold
- 2
- Leasehold
- 12
- Most recent registration
- 2025-08-21
- Where
- Wiltshire (8), Dorset (4), Hampshire (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WT483923 | Wiltshire | Leasehold | 2025-08-21 | — |
| DT483048 | Dorset | Leasehold | 2024-07-18 | — |
| HP879223 | Hampshire | Leasehold | 2023-07-25 | — |
| WT470604 | Wiltshire | Leasehold | 2023-03-31 | — |
| WT457077 | Wiltshire | Leasehold | 2021-03-25 | — |
| HP848692 | Hampshire | Leasehold | 2020-09-17 | — |
| WT440564 | Wiltshire | Leasehold | 2018-10-09 | — |
| DT425573 | Dorset | Leasehold | 2016-09-29 | — |
| DT425579 | Dorset | Leasehold | 2016-09-29 | — |
| WT306803 | Wiltshire | Leasehold | 2012-11-22 | — |
| WT286087 | Wiltshire | Leasehold | 2010-03-05 | — |
| DT377518 | Dorset | Leasehold | 2010-02-15 | — |
| WT199432 | Wiltshire | Freehold | 2001-03-22 | — |
| WT174959 | Wiltshire | Freehold | 1998-10-06 | — |
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