CARRS PASTIES LIMITED
Company number 01211577 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Carrs Pasties is a 50-year-old, family-controlled, vertically integrated bakery-retailer with a defensible heritage brand, expanding asset base and improving profitability (turnover +5.2% to £8.3m, PAT +59% to £318k in 2025), now executing a credible £10m revenue growth plan built on SALSA accreditation, digital investment and channel expansion. The strategic position is sound but constrained by tight liquidity (net current liabilities of £302k), concentrated family governance, input-cost inflation pressure, and limited product/geographic diversification. Near-term value creation hinges on disciplined execution of the stated growth strategy, professionalisation of governance, and de-risking the working capital model.
Shareholders' funds
£2,389,075
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of bakers and retailers of pies and pasties.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1975-05-08
- Employees
- 129 (2025 accounts · was 135 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 458 Manchester Road, Bolton, BL3 2NU
- Postcode
- BL3 2NU
- Capital
- 5,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 3 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
- 2025-11-13
- Next due by
- 2026-11-27
Nature of business (SIC)
- 10710 Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes
- 47240 Retail sale of bread, cakes, flour confectionery and sugar confectionery in specialised stores
Officers 4 current · 7 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by CARRS PASTIES HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2019-11-28
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA138700 (Tier 2), registered since 2015.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- carrspasties.co.uk
- Phone
- 01204 387 117, 013.821.363, 042.532.131
We’re a family run bakery based in Bolton and we’ve been baking perfect pasties since 1938. Our mission is to provide you with delicious, freshly baked products and exceptional customer service.
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 351 HALLIWELL RD., BOLTON, BL1 8DF | 1993-12-02 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 22 similar companies in BL
2nd largest employer among its local peers (129 staff).
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1975.
Competitors Bolton
This company ranks 2 among manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes in Bolton.
The class of 1975
51%
of the 5,877 companies incorporated in 1975 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 8 titles
- Freehold
- 5
- Leasehold
- 3
- Most recent registration
- 2023-07-10
- Price paid, where recorded
- £755,000
- Where
- Greater Manchester (8)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAN423805 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2023-07-10 | — |
| GM102641 | Greater Manchester | Freehold | 2019-11-26 | £420,000 |
| GM426210 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2018-07-17 | £135,000 |
| MAN89221 | Greater Manchester | Freehold | 2016-07-15 | £200,000 |
| GM130483 | Greater Manchester | Freehold | 2015-02-25 | — |
| GM53578 | Greater Manchester | Freehold | 1975-12-01 | — |
| LA154550 | Greater Manchester | Freehold | 1975-10-29 | — |
| LA154552 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 1975-10-29 | — |
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