STAVELEY'S EGGS LIMITED
Company number 01399727 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Staveley's Eggs Limited is a highly profitable, long-established family business with an exceptionally strong balance sheet and significant cash reserves of £8.69m against total liabilities of just £2.79m. The company has demonstrated impressive financial trajectory, doubling its net assets over the past two years through retained earnings rather than debt, while maintaining a conservative dividend policy. Given the substantial liquidity cushion, robust cash generation, and low leverage, the credit risk is minimal, and the application is firmly approved.
Shareholders' funds
£15,261,690
Balance sheet as at 2026-01-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of wholesale egg production.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1978-11-14
- Employees
- 75 (2026 accounts · was 85 in 2025)
- Registered office
- Coppull Moor Farm, Preston Road, Coppull, Nr Chorley, Lancashire, PR7 5EB
- Postcode
- PR7 5EB
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-01-31
- Next due by
- 2027-10-31
- Financial year end
- 31 January
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-04-11
- Next due by
- 2027-04-25
Nature of business (SIC)
- 1470 Raising of poultry
Officers 4 current · 2 resigned
Contact details
- Website
- staveleyseggs.com
- Phone
- 01257794700, 01257791595
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 14 similar companies in PR
The largest employer among its local peers (75 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1978.
Competitors Preston
This company ranks 1 among raising of poultry in Preston.
The class of 1978
51%
of the 8,636 companies incorporated in 1978 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 6 titles
- Freehold
- 6
- Most recent registration
- 2017-08-17
- Where
- Lancashire (6)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAN194710 | Lancashire | Freehold | 2017-08-17 | — |
| LAN6815 | Lancashire | Freehold | 2016-10-25 | — |
| LAN180612 | Lancashire | Freehold | 2016-08-05 | — |
| LAN178833 | Lancashire | Freehold | 2016-06-15 | — |
| LA830574 | Lancashire | Freehold | 2003-06-05 | — |
| LA822843 | Lancashire | Freehold | 1998-06-26 | — |
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