FLAVOURFRESH SALADS LIMITED
Company number 03389630 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Flavourfresh Salads is a financially weakened but asset-rich business. It is currently loss-making, cash-strapped, and reliant on bank overdraft to bridge negative working capital. Approval is conditional on strict cash-flow covenants, a security package over fixed assets, and monthly monitoring to prevent further balance sheet erosion.
Shareholders' funds
£7,461,787
Balance sheet as at 2025-11-29
What it does
The principal activity of the company and group continued to be that of speciality tomato growers and market gardeners.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1997-06-20
- Employees
- 244 (2025 accounts · was 249 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Aldergrove Centre, Marsh Road, Banks, Southport, Merseyside, PR9 8DX
- Postcode
- PR9 8DX
- Capital
- 26,667 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 4 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-11-29
- Next due by
- 2027-08-29
- Financial year end
- 29 November
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-06-20
- Next due by
- 2027-07-04
Nature of business (SIC)
- 1130 Growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers
Officers 4 current · 10 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB209523 (Tier 2), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Gender pay gap
1.35%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · in the top quarter for parity
Contact details
- Website
- flavourfresh.com
Flavourfresh Salads is one of the leading British commercial growers, supplying produce bursting with flavour, innovation and an unrivalled range.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| TOP SHELF LIMITED | 1997-12-12 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| SEVEN OAKS NURSERIES, 222 MOSS LANE, HESKETH BANK PRESTON, LANCASHIRE | 1999-12-03 |
| 3 GARDEN WALK, LONDON, EC2A 3EQ | 1997-11-26 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 35 similar companies in PR
3rd largest employer among its local peers (244 staff).
Trading since 1997.
No.3 of the largest growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers companies in Preston →
Competitors Preston
This company ranks 3 among growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers in Preston.
The class of 1997
43%
of the 50,528 companies incorporated in 1997 are still active today; 54% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 5 titles
- Freehold
- 5
- Most recent registration
- 2000-01-12
- Where
- Lancashire (5)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LA835006 | Lancashire | Freehold | 2000-01-12 | — |
| LA709424 | Lancashire | Freehold | 1997-12-30 | — |
| LA765138 | Lancashire | Freehold | 1997-12-30 | — |
| LA765453 | Lancashire | Freehold | 1997-12-30 | — |
| LA800700 | Lancashire | Freehold | 1997-12-23 | — |
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