BUNGE UK LIMITED
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Cash
£480k
+9.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£37m
-12.3% vs 2024
Employees
73
+5.8% highest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£7.9m
+15.3% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £527,554,000 | £442,883,000 | £420,764,000 | -5% | |
| Operating profit | £18,570,000 | £5,769,000 | £6,419,000 | +11.3% | |
| Profit before tax | £20,052,000 | £6,851,000 | £7,896,000 | +15.3% | |
| Net profit | £15,411,000 | £5,069,000 | £5,976,000 | +17.9% | |
| Cash | £2,254,000 | £437,000 | £480,000 | +9.8% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £48,383,000 | £53,555,000 | £68,423,000 | +27.8% | |
| Net assets | £37,135,000 | £42,481,000 | £37,242,000 | -12.3% | |
| Equity | £37,135,000 | £42,481,000 | £37,242,000 | -12.3% | |
| Average employees | 68 | 69 | 73 | +5.8% | |
| Wages | £5,082,000 | £4,655,000 | £5,350,000 | +14.9% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £793,000 | £814,000 | £779,000 | -4.3% | |
| Directors' pension contributions | £61,000 | £64,000 | — | — | |
| Highest paid director | £679,000 | £640,000 | £616,000 | -3.8% |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.5% | 1.3% | 1.5% | |
| Net margin | 2.9% | 1.1% | 1.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 38.4% | 10.8% | 9.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 77.6% | 74.2% | 74.0% | |
| Current ratio | 1.15x | 1.22x | — | |
| Interest cover | 19.22x | 8.70x | 10.45x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 5 times since incorporation — the current trading name was adopted 2025-08-21
- BUNGE UK LIMITED 2025-08-21 → present
- VITERRA UK LTD. 2020-12-19 → 2025-08-21
- VITERRA UK LIMITED 2020-12-03 → 2020-12-19
- GLENCORE AGRICULTURE UK LTD. 2016-10-25 → 2020-12-03
- GLENCORE GRAIN UK LTD. 1994-09-01 → 2016-10-25
- CERES(U.K.)LIMITED 1969-09-15 → 1994-09-01
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- United Kingdom adopted international accounting standards
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have formed a judgement, at the time of approving the financial statements, that there is a reasonable expectation that the Company has more than adequate resources to continue in operational existence for twelve months from the date of approving the financial statements.”
Group structure
- BUNGE UK LIMITED · parent
- Grainman Limited 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PUJARA, Shailesh Prataprai | Secretary | 1994-10-01 | — | British |
| MAW, James Daniel | Director | 2015-08-01 | Jul 1963 | British |
| RODRIGUEZ, Alvaro | Director | 2025-07-07 | May 1968 | Swiss |
| VENN, Sarah Jayne | Director | 2020-10-03 | Oct 1967 | British |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEBB, Gerald Roy | Secretary | — | 1994-10-01 |
| CALDER, John | Director | 1994-10-01 | 1997-03-07 |
| DAVIES, Keith Lewis | Director | 1994-10-01 | 2015-07-31 |
| DREYFUSS, Daniel Natan | Director | — | 2006-01-20 |
| KIEVIT, Marinus | Director | — | 1994-12-31 |
| MAHONEY, Christopher John | Director | 2002-11-01 | 2018-09-03 |
| MOSTERT, Ernest Christian Barend | Director | 2006-01-20 | 2018-09-03 |
| MOUTHAAN, Peter Mario | Director | 2018-09-03 | 2025-07-03 |
| TUCKEY, Michael John | Director | — | 2002-11-01 |
| WILLIAMS, Graham Peter | Director | 1994-10-01 | 2003-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Koninklijke Bunge B.V. | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2025-11-01 | Active |
| Plavax Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2017-03-31 | Ceased 2025-11-01 |
| Belfurt Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-08-31 | Ceased 2017-03-31 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 138 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-08-21 CERTNM Certificate change of name company
- 2025-08-21 CONNOT Change of name notice
- 2020-12-19 CERTNM Certificate change of name company
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-04-10 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-04-10 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-04-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-10-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-29 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-08-21 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2025-08-21 | CONNOT | change-of-name | Change of name notice | |
| 2025-07-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-04-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-04-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-03-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-12-19 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.