KALE & DAMSON LIMITED
Company number 09116500 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Kale & Damson Limited is a niche UK fresh produce wholesaler with a strong cash position and above-average gross margins, but it faces acute margin compression typical of the sector, turning a small prior-year profit into a 2025 loss. While its differentiated service model and long-standing customer relationships offer some resilience, vulnerability to inflation, supply chain disruption, and competitive pressure means near-term profitability remains challenging. The company’s ability to stabilise margins and return to profit will be critical to sustaining its improved balance sheet.
Shareholders' funds
£485,136
Balance sheet as at 2023-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the Company is the wholesale of fruit and vegetables.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2014-07-04
- Employees
- 69 (2025 accounts · was 71 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 2a Papworth Business Park, Papworth Everard, Cambridge, United Kingdom, CB23 3GY
- Postcode
- CB23 3GY
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 0 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
- 2026-06-16
- Next due by
- 2027-06-30
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46310 Wholesale of fruit and vegetables
- 46330 Wholesale of dairy products, eggs and edible oils and fats
Officers 2 current · 1 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB511054 (Tier 2), registered since 2023.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 18 similar companies in CB
2nd largest employer among its local peers (69 staff).
Trading since 2014.
Competitors Cambridge
This company ranks 4 among wholesale of fruit and vegetables in Cambridge.
The class of 2014
34%
of the 236 companies in this sector incorporated in 2014 are still active today; 58% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.