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Company description
FINE LADY BAKERIES LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 18 June 1948; registered for 78 years; registered office reported in NORTHAMPTON. Its primary declared activity is 10710 · Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes. In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 29 March 2025, it reported turnover £163,877,195, profit after tax £116,555, net assets £15,235,202, average employees 739.
Among active companies with electronic accounts available to BritDB, it ranks 177 by latest disclosed GBP turnover; this is a dataset comparison, not a credit rating. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 6 trade marks. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- FINE LADY BAKERIES LIMITED
- Company number
- 00455692
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 4 total · 2 outstanding · 2 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
29 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
1 December 2025Next statement due
15 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Turnover
- £163,877,195
- Gross profit
- £23,764,873
- Operating profit
- £2,631,670
- Profit before tax
- £822,329
- Profit after tax
- £116,555
- Fixed assets
- £43,865,028
- Net assets
- £15,235,202
- Current assets
- £30,069,528
- Current liabilities
- £46,199,656
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £27,734,900
- Cash at bank
- £242
- Equity
- £15,235,202
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
04 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- Not supplied
- Mean bonus gap
- Not supplied
- Women receiving bonus
- 0.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 0.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 8.1%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 10.3%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 9.8%
- Women in lower quartile
- 20.8%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 9992.2% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9995.5% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9997.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99916.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99915.7% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99913.9% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99913.3% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99915.3% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
05 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 29 September 2025 – 27 March 2026
- Filed
- 20 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 7 days
- Longest standard term
- 90 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-2
- Financial period started
- 29 March 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £24,153,767
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £42,391,341
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £6,453,394
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £24,028,239
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 49.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms range between 30 days from the date of invoice to 60 days following the end of the month of invoice.
- Dispute resolution process
Any payment disputes should be directed to accounts@flbltd.co.uk or through our switchboard on 01295 227600, asking for Accounts Payable. We investigate all disputes and aim to resolve them as soon as possible
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 45.0 average days to pay44.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay56.0% outside terms
- 51.0 average days to pay45.0% outside terms
- 52.0 average days to pay46.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay46.0% outside terms
- 48.0 average days to pay44.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay45.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay33.0% outside terms
- 56.0 average days to pay44.0% outside terms
- 48.0 average days to pay59.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay43.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- FINE LADY BAKERIES LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- HEYGATE & SONS LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 April 2020 – 31 March 2021
- Approved
- 31 March 2021
- Sectors
- Food and beverages, agriculture and fishing Transportation, logistics, and storage
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Not reported as covered
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 23 July 2021
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
07 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Fine Lady Bakeries Limited
Registration Z7001628
- Registered from
- 12 July 2002
- Current end date
- 11 July 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
08 Environmental regulation
Environment Agency records
FINE LADY BAKERIES LIMITED
4134 · NN7 3QH
- Permit or record holder
- FINE LADY BAKERIES LIMITED
- Record date
- 8 August 2007
- Local authority
- Not supplied
- Regulated site or public record address
- BUGBROOKE MILLS, BUGBROOKE, NORTHAMPTON, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, NN7 3QH
- Activity
- Water Quality
- Action
- Court Case
- Relevant legislation
- WATER RESOURCES ACT 1991
- All populated source fields
- Action Number: 4134; Offender: FINE LADY BAKERIES LIMITED; Address: BUGBROOKE MILLS, BUGBROOKE, NORTHAMPTON, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, NN7 3QH; Action Date: 2007-08-08; Relevant Legislation: WATER RESOURCES ACT 1991; Action Type: Court Case; Agency Function: Water Quality
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TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
Fine Lady Bakers Premium
Owner Fine Lady Bakeries Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 16 June 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 June 2025
FINE LADY BAKERIES
Owner Fine Lady Bakeries Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 23 March 2006
- Valid until / renewal due
- 23 March 2026
FINE LADY oaten LOAF
Owner Fine Lady Bakeries Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 14 May 1988
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 May 2025
Figurative mark
Owner Fine Lady Bakeries Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 22 December 1983
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 December 2024
FINE LADY
Owner Fine Lady Bakeries Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 20 August 1975
- Valid until / renewal due
- 20 August 2026
FINE LADY
Owner Fine Lady Bakeries Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 27 April 1965
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 April 2020
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
09 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Heygate & Sons Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Companies Act In England And Wales
- Legal form
- Private Company Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- England And Wales
- Registration number
- 00719446
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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10 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
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11 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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12 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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13 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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14 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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15 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
16 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
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17 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
18 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Candidate permit and enforcement associations based on a unique exact holder-name and postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
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