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Company description
ETHICAL FOOD COMPANY LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 21 April 2009; registered for 17 years; registered office reported in STRATFORD UPON AVON, WARWICKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 10390 · Other processing and preserving of fruit and vegetables.
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 30 September 2025, it reported turnover £51,042,655, profit after tax £562,401, net assets £7,199,435, average employees 32. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 4 PSC records. 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
- ETHICAL FOOD COMPANY LIMITED
- Company number
- 06882973
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 8 total · 2 outstanding · 6 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
21 April 2026Next statement due
5 May 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Turnover
- £51,042,655
- Gross profit
- £3,466,280
- Operating profit
- £637,478
- Profit before tax
- £769,713
- Profit after tax
- £562,401
- Fixed assets
- £502,237
- Net assets
- £7,199,435
- Current assets
- £14,884,511
- Current liabilities
- £8,182,570
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £7,204,178
- Cash at bank
- £2,919,151
- Equity
- £7,199,435
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 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
ETHICAL FOOD COMPANY LIMITED
LEI 254900SLCK19PBGK3E95 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 21 April 2009
- Initial LEI registration
- 3 October 2017
- LEI last updated
- 20 August 2025
- Next renewal
- 15 October 2026
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Other legal names
- ETHICAL FRUIT COMPANY LIMITED
- Legal address
- UNIT 11A DRAYTON MANOR DRIVE, ALCESTER ROAD, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, GB-WAR, CV37 9RQ, GB
- Headquarters address
- UNIT 11A DRAYTON MANOR DRIVE, ALCESTER ROAD, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, GB-WAR, CV37 9RQ, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 254900SLCK19PBGK3E95 to LEI 213800BZ1MJSYBPB3204
- Related legal entity
- TERRADACE HOLDINGS LIMITED →
- Initial registration
- 3 October 2017
- Last updated
- 20 August 2025
- Next renewal
- 15 October 2026
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2024-09-30T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2021-10-15T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: IFRS
- Validation reference
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06882973/filing-history/MzQ3MTcxNTM1M2FkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 254900SLCK19PBGK3E95 to LEI 213800BZ1MJSYBPB3204
- Related legal entity
- TERRADACE HOLDINGS LIMITED →
- Initial registration
- 3 October 2017
- Last updated
- 20 August 2025
- Next renewal
- 15 October 2026
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2024-09-30T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2021-10-15T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: IFRS
- Validation reference
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06882973/filing-history/MzQ3MTcxNTM1M2FkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
05 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- ETHICAL FOOD COMPANY LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- TERRADACE HOLDINGS LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2025
- Approved
- 28 January 2026
- Sectors
- Food and beverages, agriculture and fishing
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 31 March 2026
Earlier linked statements (1)
- ETHICAL FOOD COMPANY LIMITED30 September 2025
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.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Ethical Food Company Limited
Registration ZB267773
- Registered from
- 16 November 2021
- Current end date
- 15 November 2026
- Trading names
- dps ltd
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.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Ms Hazel Hunt
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- United Kingdom
- Notified
- 31 January 2019
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-05-08T00:00:00Z
Organic Growers Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (England And Wales)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 11634460
- Notified
- 31 January 2019
Melanie Wakeley
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- United Kingdom
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 3 November 2017
Mr Adam John Paul WakeleySee 7 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 50% to 75% of shares
- Controls 50% to 75% of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Nationality
- English
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 31 January 2019
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08 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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09 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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10 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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11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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12 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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13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
14 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.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
15 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
- Company name
Previous name: THE ETHICAL FOOD COMPANY LIMITED
- Company name
Previous name: ETHICAL FRUIT COMPANY LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact 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.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.