WATERFIELDS (LEIGH) LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£1,399,290
Balance sheet as at 2025-04-05
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of manufacturers and retailers of bakery products.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1938-02-24
- Employees
- 369 (2025 accounts · was 375 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Crompton Fold Bakery, Manchester Road, Leigh, Lancashire, WN7 2LX
- Postcode
- WN7 2LX
- Capital
- 52,200 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 10 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-04-05
- Next due by
- 2027-05-31
- Financial year end
- 31 August
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-01-20
- Next due by
- 2027-02-03
Nature of business (SIC)
- 10710 Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes
Officers 3 current · 13 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by DAVIES ENTERPRISE HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2025-01-10
Controlled by BREHME HOLDINGS LTD — since 2025-01-10
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Gender pay gap
4.8%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity
Contact details
- Website
- waterfields.co.uk
- Phone
- 01942740245, 01942740000
Award winning family retail and wholesale bakery supplying pies, pasties, bread, savouries, soup, coffee, salads and cakes including birthday, celebration and wedding cakes in the North-West
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 12 similar companies in WN
The largest employer among its local peers (369 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1938.
Competitors Wigan
This company ranks 3 among manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes in Wigan.
Property in England & Wales 42 titles
- Leasehold
- 42
- Most recent registration
- 2025-08-13
- Price paid, where recorded
- £15,000
- Where
- Merseyside (26), Warrington (8), Greater Manchester (4)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH742521 | Warrington | Leasehold | 2025-08-13 | — |
| MS710729 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2023-12-06 | — |
| CH725737 | Halton | Leasehold | 2023-07-26 | — |
| MS704503 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2023-03-02 | — |
| MS701650 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2022-11-04 | — |
| MS699545 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2022-08-05 | — |
| MS696610 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2022-03-29 | — |
| CH710368 | Warrington | Leasehold | 2022-01-13 | — |
| MS692427 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2021-10-11 | — |
| LAN252922 | Lancashire | Leasehold | 2021-10-08 | — |
| MS675832 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2019-10-30 | — |
| MS672015 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2019-07-24 | — |
| MS671604 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2019-07-15 | — |
| CH683750 | Warrington | Leasehold | 2019-06-14 | — |
| CH683753 | Warrington | Leasehold | 2019-06-14 | — |
| MAN340550 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2019-06-14 | — |
| MS670451 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2019-06-14 | — |
| MS670458 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2019-06-14 | — |
| MS662331 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2018-11-06 | — |
| MS656722 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2018-06-01 | — |
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