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Company description
L.J. FAIRBURN AND SON LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 3 September 1974; registered for 51 years; registered office reported in ALFORD, LINCOLNSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 01110 · Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds, with 3 additional SIC activities reported. In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 30 September 2025, it reported turnover £116,362,737, profit after tax £2,082,425, net assets £22,505,243, average employees 260.
Among active companies with electronic accounts available to BritDB, it ranks 311 by latest disclosed GBP turnover; this is a dataset comparison, not a credit rating. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 1 waste registration. 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
- L.J. FAIRBURN AND SON LIMITED
- Company number
- 01182857
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 42 total · 15 outstanding · 27 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
30 September 2025Next accounts due
30 June 2027Last statement made up to
22 August 2025Next statement due
5 September 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Turnover
- £116,362,737
- Gross profit
- £12,881,593
- Operating profit
- £3,985,345
- Profit before tax
- £3,074,077
- Profit after tax
- £2,082,425
- Fixed assets
- £40,663,491
- Net assets
- £22,505,243
- Current assets
- £22,497,447
- Current liabilities
- £20,232,600
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £42,928,338
- Cash at bank
- £7,176
- Equity
- £22,505,243
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
- 81.8%
- Mean bonus gap
- 81.8%
- Women receiving bonus
- 2.5%
- Men receiving bonus
- 0.5%
- Women in top quartile
- 30.3%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 19.7%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 34.8%
- Women in lower quartile
- 35.8%
Earlier reporting years (4)
- 250 to 4996.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4995.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4995.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-7.8% 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
- 1 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 28 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 2 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 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-3
- Financial period started
- 1 October 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £14,897,474
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £41,809,164
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £5,915,773
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £9,217,199
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 50.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 6.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Payments are run on a weekly basis,. The most frequently used is 30 days after week of delivery. The second most frequently used is the payment run on the second Friday of the month, in the second month after invoice date.
- Dispute resolution process
If an invoice is in dispute we contact the supplier to query and discuss the invoice. If credit is due, the invoice is held until credit is received.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 37.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 40.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay22.0% 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
- L.J. FAIRBURN AND SON LIMITED
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2025
- Approved
- 19 February 2026
- Sectors
- Food and beverages, agriculture and fishing
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
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 23 February 2026
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07 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
L.J. Fairburn And Son Limited
Registration ZA812475
- Registered from
- 20 November 2020
- Current end date
- 19 November 2026
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
L.J. Fairburn and Son Limited
EPR/EP3428LJ · LN13 9PL
- Permit or record holder
- L.J. Fairburn and Son Limited
- Record date
- 17 December 2025
- Local authority
- East Lindsey
- Regulated site or public record address
- Ivy House Farm Office, Whitton Farm, Bilsby, Alford, Lincolnshire, LN13 9PL
- Activity
- Intensive Farming; > 40,000 Poultry - 6.9 A(1) a) (i)
- Grid reference
- TF4719375037
- Easting
- 547193.000
- Northing
- 375037.000
- All populated source fields
- Permission Number: EPR/EP3428LJ; Name: L.J. Fairburn and Son Limited; Activity Type Description: Intensive Farming; > 40,000 Poultry - 6.9 A(1) a) (i); Document URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ln13-9pl-lj-fairburn-and-son-limited-environmental-permit-issued-eprep3428lja001; Site Address: Ivy House Farm Office, Whitton Farm, Bilsby, Alford, Lincolnshire, LN13 9PL; Site Postcode: LN13 9PL; Site Grid Reference: TF4719375037; Easting: 547193; Northing: 375037; Local Authority: East Lindsey; Permission Date: 2025-12-17
An official document URL is recorded and is available through the dedicated source page; no direct external link is placed here.
L.J. Fairburn and Son Limited
EPR/BT5873IU · LN13 9PL
- Permit or record holder
- L.J. Fairburn and Son Limited
- Record date
- 18 September 2007
- Local authority
- East Lindsey
- Regulated site or public record address
- Ivy House Farm, Ivy House Farm Poultry Unit - EPR/BT5873IU, Farlesthorpe Road, Bilsby, Alford, Lincolnshire, LN13 9PL
- Activity
- Intensive Farming; > 40,000 Poultry - 6.9 A(1) a) (i)
- Grid reference
- TF4650074790
- Easting
- 546500.000
- Northing
- 374790.000
- All populated source fields
- Permission Number: EPR/BT5873IU; Name: L.J. Fairburn and Son Limited; Activity Type Description: Intensive Farming; > 40,000 Poultry - 6.9 A(1) a) (i); Site Address: Ivy House Farm, Ivy House Farm Poultry Unit - EPR/BT5873IU, Farlesthorpe Road, Bilsby, Alford, Lincolnshire, LN13 9PL; Site Postcode: LN13 9PL; Site Grid Reference: TF4650074790; Easting: 546500; Northing: 374790; Local Authority: East Lindsey; Permission Date: 2007-09-18
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09 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Mr Daniel James FairburnSee 6 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Appointment Verification Statement Date: 2026-08-23T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Statement Due On: 2026-09-05T00:00:00Z
Executors Of Stuart Henry Fairburn DeceasedSee 3 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 50% to 75% of shares
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- United Kingdom
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 20 February 2023
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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
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12 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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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
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15 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Raising of poultry
Manufacture of prepared feeds for farm animals
Wholesale of dairy products, eggs and edible oils and fats
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
1 exact company-number registration.
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
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement 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.
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Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
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