SUNCROP PRODUCE LIMITED
Company number 03255798 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Suncrop Produce Limited is a well-established mid-tier player in the UK fresh produce wholesale sector with approximately £54 million revenue, demonstrating long-term viability through consistent equity accumulation. However, the company faces acute margin pressure, with net margin collapsing from 2.94% to 0.82% year-on-year despite revenue growth, leaving the business dangerously exposed to further cost inflation. The strategic investments in energy infrastructure at key suppliers and the supply chain coordination through related-party relationships provide some differentiation, but the heavy customer concentration on a single major supermarket and the thin margin buffer represent the most significant risks to the business's sustainability at its current scale.
Shareholders' funds
£5,399,731
Balance sheet as at 2024-09-30
What it does
The company's principal activity during the year was wholesale merchandising of fresh fruit and vegetables to UK supermarkets. There have not been any significant changes in the company's principal activities in the year under review. The directors are not aware, at the date of this report, of any likely changes to the company's activities in the next year.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1996-09-27
- Employees
- 14 (2024 accounts)
- Registered office
- Chilterns, Commonside Road, Harlow, Essex, CM18 7EZ
- Postcode
- CM18 7EZ
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 5 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-09-30
- Next due by
- 2026-09-30
- Financial year end
- 30 September
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-09-27
- Next due by
- 2026-10-11
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46310 Wholesale of fruit and vegetables
Officers 5 current · 5 resigned
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| CLIFTON HOUSE, 2 CLIFTON VILLAS, BRADFORD, WEST YORKSHIRE BD8 7BY | 1997-10-23 |
| CROWN HOUSE 64 WHITCHURCH ROAD, CARDIFF, CF4 3LX | 1996-10-01 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 37 similar companies in CM
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (14 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1996.
No.1 of the largest wholesale of fruit and vegetables companies in Chelmsford →
Competitors Chelmsford
This company ranks 1 among wholesale of fruit and vegetables in Chelmsford.
The class of 1996
45%
of the 41,233 companies incorporated in 1996 are still active today; 52% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Freehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2019-01-21
- Price paid, where recorded
- £2,750,000
- Where
- East Riding Of Yorkshire
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YEA89736 | East Riding Of Yorkshire | Freehold | 2019-01-21 | £2,750,000 |
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