FARMERS FRESH LIMITED
Company number 03851239 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Farmers Fresh Limited is a well-established, significant-scale lamb abattoir operating in a challenging sector environment characterised by post-Brexit export friction, commodity price volatility, and rising input costs. While the company's 7.5% revenue decline and 11.8% volume reduction are concerning, margin improvement to 15.49% and a strongly deleveraged balance sheet (liabilities halved over two years) demonstrate operational resilience and financial discipline. The company's competitive position is solid within the mid-tier of UK lamb processors, though its role as a cash contributor within the Farmers First Limited group structure and its reliance on EU export markets introduce risks that warrant ongoing scrutiny.
Shareholders' funds
£13,786,353
Balance sheet as at 2025-05-30
What it does
an abattoir.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1999-09-30
- Employees
- 35 (2025 accounts · was 36 in 2024)
- Registered office
- The Abattoir, Rouncil Lane, Kenilworth, Warks, CV8 1NN
- Postcode
- CV8 1NN
- Capital
- 1 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-05-30
- Next due by
- 2027-02-28
- Financial year end
- 30 May
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-09-30
- Next due by
- 2027-10-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46320 Wholesale of meat and meat products
Officers 9 current · 17 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by FARMERS FIRST LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2024 (period to 2024-05-31) as part of the FARMERS FIRST LIMITED group statement — 5 years on the registry.
Read the statement summary on the government modern slavery statement registry. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA397961 (Tier 2), registered since 2018.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- farmersfresh.uk
- Phone
- 01363 720757, 018-969825, 01926 853211
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| QUAYSHELFCO 737 LIMITED | 2000-03-21 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| DAVELA, LLANSTEPHAN LLYSWEN, BRECON, POWYS LD3 0AJ | 2006-02-16 |
| NARROW QUAY HOUSE, NARROW QUAY, BRISTOL, AVON BS1 4AH | 2000-03-17 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 29 similar companies in CV
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (35 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1999.
No.1 of the largest wholesale of meat and meat products companies in Coventry →
Competitors Coventry
This company ranks 1 among wholesale of meat and meat products in Coventry.
The class of 1999
42%
of the 64,735 companies incorporated in 1999 are still active today; 55% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 2 titles
- Freehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2012-07-02
- Where
- Warwickshire (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WK381967 | Warwickshire | Freehold | 2012-07-02 | — |
| WK391725 | Warwickshire | Freehold | 2012-07-02 | — |
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