WHOLEBAKE LIMITED
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Cash
£158K
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£13M
Equity attributable
Employees
318
Average over period
Profit before tax
£19M
Period ending 2025-03-29
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-03-29
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-30 | 2025-03-29 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £52,364,000 | £52,694,000 | — | |
| Operating profit | -£1,349,000 | £18,747,000 | — | |
| Profit before tax | -£1,817,000 | £18,556,000 | — | |
| Net profit | -£2,352,000 | £17,951,000 | — | |
| Cash | £136,000 | £158,000 | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£4,647,000 | £13,705,000 | — | |
| Net assets | -£5,283,000 | £12,668,000 | — | |
| Equity | -£5,283,000 | £12,668,000 | — | |
| Average employees | 328 | 318 | — | |
| Wages | £9,887,000 | £10,343,000 | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | — |
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 —. Year-on-year comparison hidden: this filing covers about 12 months versus 12 months prior. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-30 | 2025-03-29 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -2.6% | 35.6% | |
| Net margin | -4.5% | 34.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 136.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 119.3% | 56.3% | |
| Current ratio | 0.69x | 1.31x | |
| Interest cover | -2.88x | 98.15x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Therefore, the directors consider that there is a reasonable expectation that the company has sufficient funds to trade for a period of at least 12 months from the date of these accounts and therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing these financial statements.”
Group structure
- WHOLEBAKE LIMITED · parent
- 9Brand Foods Limited 100%
- Bounce Brands Foods Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The company has leased larger factory and office premises in Wrexham. The company has invested £3.6m in the fit out of the new site during the year and will transfer operations from existing sites during the following financial year, eventually closing our existing sites.”
- “During the previous year the Wellbeing group of which the company is a part, sold one of its other trading subsidiaries, Deeside Cereals I Ltd (manufacturer of breakfast cereals), to Weetabix Limited to facilitate the group's strategy to concentrate on snack bar manufacturing.”
- “Wellbeing Topco Limited, Wellbeing Midco Limited and Healthfull Holdings Limited agreed to discharge and release Wholebake Limited from its obligations and liabilities relating to of £17.6m of these inter-company loans via deeds of release.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 18 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCMULLEN, John | Director | 2025-10-17 | Feb 1971 | British |
| UNSWORTH, Peter Dylan | Director | 2021-07-31 | Jul 1958 | British |
| VENABLES, Simon Peter | Director | 2024-04-09 | Nov 1978 | British |
Show 18 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIBSON, Jennifer Margaret | Secretary | 1996-12-19 | 2011-05-11 |
| JPCORS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1996-12-16 | 1996-12-16 |
| BIRCH, Jaclyn | Director | 2014-07-24 | 2017-03-16 |
| CAMPION, David Bardsley | Director | 2001-02-21 | 2011-05-11 |
| DUNN, Simon Matthew | Director | 2001-02-21 | 2003-09-08 |
| FAIRHURST, Colin Peter | Director | 2001-02-21 | 2011-05-11 |
| FAITHFULL, Simon Nicholas | Director | 2019-05-31 | 2023-06-06 |
| FALCON, Thomas William | Director | 2021-07-31 | 2023-08-11 |
| GIBSON, Jennifer Margaret | Director | 1998-08-01 | 2011-05-11 |
| GOULD, Mark Linden | Director | 2003-11-12 | 2021-07-31 |
| HEBRON, Nigel Patrick | Director | 2022-06-01 | 2023-02-28 |
| JONES, Stephen Roy | Director | 1996-12-19 | 2011-05-11 |
| JUHASZ, Eve Marion | Director | 2018-02-14 | 2020-02-20 |
| LEE, Graham Evans | Director | 2002-09-19 | 2003-09-20 |
| LORD, Andrew Michael | Director | 2012-02-01 | 2014-07-24 |
| SHAW, Richard Price | Director | 2002-09-19 | 2021-07-31 |
| TICHBON, Peter Anthony | Director | 2023-06-13 | 2024-12-16 |
| JPCORD LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1996-12-16 | 1996-12-16 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wholebake (Topco) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 179 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-28 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-10-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-24 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-07-24 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-05-08 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-12-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-11-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-06-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-02-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-02-28 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-02-28 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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.