OLEON LTD.
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Cash
£8.8M
+27.4% highest in 3 filed years
Net assets
£21M
+8.1% highest in 3 filed years
Employees
102
-2.9% lowest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£5M
-9.3% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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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 Staples 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 | £77,382,482 | £80,162,836 | £73,224,530 | -8.7% | |
| Operating profit | £3,245,640 | £4,729,413 | £3,749,836 | -20.7% | |
| Profit before tax | £3,151,588 | £5,485,406 | £4,975,906 | -9.3% | |
| Net profit | £2,445,165 | £4,158,269 | £3,651,755 | -12.2% | |
| Cash | £453,532 | £6,885,065 | £8,770,861 | +27.4% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £17,139,151 | £20,149,226 | £21,942,199 | +8.9% | |
| Net assets | £16,438,344 | £19,374,031 | £20,946,651 | +8.1% | |
| Equity | £16,438,344 | £19,374,031 | £20,946,651 | +8.1% | |
| Average employees | 110 | 105 | 102 | -2.9% | |
| Wages | £4,184,967 | £4,274,116 | £4,251,320 | -0.5% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £522,616 | £322,272 | £313,506 | -2.7% |
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 | 4.2% | 5.9% | 5.1% | |
| Net margin | 3.2% | 5.2% | 5.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 18.9% | 23.5% | 17.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 37.0% | 32.5% | |
| Current ratio | 2.58x | 2.42x | 2.85x | |
| Interest cover | 34.51x | — | — |
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 2 times since incorporation
- OLEON LTD. 2024-01-31 → present
- THE KERFOOT GROUP LIMITED 1994-12-02 → 2024-01-31
- DAVID KERFOOT LIMITED 1980-06-11 → 1994-12-02
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Accordingly, the directors have concluded that the company has adequate resources to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for the period to 30 June 2027 and are satisfied that they have reasonable basis upon which to conclude that it remains appropriate to prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “transferring all the shares of the company by Avril Pôle Végétal SAS to Oleon NV on 1 January 2024.”
- “The directors do not recommend the payment of a final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2025 (2024: £2,079,135).”
- “The decision was made to exit the invoice financing facility (effective January 2025) that was in place and utilise an on-demand overdraft facility of £2.5m going forward to help manage any short-term cash requirements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 23 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE MUYNCK, Caroline | Director | 2023-06-16 | Apr 1965 | Belgian |
| DIRCKX, Jeroen | Director | 2022-11-07 | Dec 1977 | Belgian |
| PREVOST, Antoine Marie Gerard | Director | 2026-05-01 | Dec 1970 | French |
| STOKES, Sarah Joanne | Director | 2017-01-01 | Jun 1972 | British |
Show 23 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| KERFOOT, Elizabeth Mary | Secretary | — | 2015-07-31 |
| ATKINS, Alison Rachel | Director | 2018-04-03 | 2023-06-14 |
| BACHELERIE, Jean-Baptiste | Director | 2015-07-31 | 2018-08-31 |
| BALCAEN, Peter | Director | 2023-06-16 | 2025-07-01 |
| BLONDEL, Dominique | Director | 2015-07-31 | 2017-11-30 |
| BRADLEY, Sarah | Director | 2017-03-31 | 2022-11-07 |
| CORNER, Simon Matthew | Director | 2016-04-01 | 2026-03-21 |
| DELAINE, Yves | Director | 2015-07-31 | 2017-11-30 |
| DELAMEA, Olivier Christophe Marcel | Director | 2018-09-01 | 2022-04-01 |
| DONALDSON, Crispin | Director | 2011-03-01 | 2016-03-31 |
| FROST, Robin | Director | 2011-03-01 | 2011-09-30 |
| KERFOOT, David Arnold | Director | — | 2017-07-31 |
| KERFOOT, Elizabeth Mary | Director | — | 2015-07-31 |
| KERFOOT, Jennifer Elizabeth | Director | 2011-03-01 | 2017-03-31 |
| KERFOOT, Thomas David James | Director | 2011-03-01 | 2017-03-31 |
| LAWRENCE, Anthony | Director | 2011-03-01 | 2017-09-08 |
| NACIRI, Moussa | Director | 2022-04-01 | 2026-04-30 |
| NEWELL, Kim Melanie | Director | 2018-01-02 | 2021-01-31 |
| NOUFFERT, Romain | Director | 2015-07-31 | 2017-11-30 |
| SAVAGE, Steven Jamie | Director | 2016-01-25 | 2018-04-11 |
| SMITH, Christopher | Director | 2012-03-30 | 2013-12-31 |
| THOMPSON, John | Director | 2011-03-01 | 2015-12-31 |
| WILKINSON, Alison Louise | Director | 2017-01-01 | 2017-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oleon Nv | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2024-01-01 | Ceased 2026-03-21 |
| Avril Pole Vegetal Sas | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2024-01-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 197 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-01-31 CERTNM Certificate change of name company
- 2024-01-31 CONNOT Change of name notice
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-05-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-05-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-04-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-04-13 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2026-03-27 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-03-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-09 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-07-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-04-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-09-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-04-11 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-04-11 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-01-31 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2024-01-31 | CONNOT | change-of-name | Change of name notice | |
| 2023-09-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 3
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.