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| PROSPECT SWETENHAMS BUSINESS RATIO : FROZEN FOOD PRODUCERS - FEBRUARY 2005 |
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This Business Ratio report brings you detailed financial profiles, analysis and comparison of the leading 82 limited companies actively trading in this industry sector in Great Britain.
You can use this information in a wide number of ways, including:
- Benchmarking your own company's performance against the industry average or competitors
- Tracking industry or individual company performance trends
- Identifying investment or acquisition targets
- Evaluating the performance of suppliers to your business
- Spotting the "stars" of the industry, and those companies which are struggling to keep up
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COMPANIES INCLUDED IN THIS REPORT
This Business Ratio report analyses, compares and contrasts the most recent financial details covering three or four years for the leading 82 companies in the industry. For comparison purposes, the base year is the most recent year for which the vast majority of companies have filed details. However, if firms have published more recent details, these are also included as a fourth year of accounts.
This summary brings you a sample of key details from this invaluable report. The report itself includes many further analyses of the performance of individual companies and the industry as a whole. The report provides in-depth financial analysis on these companies in these 4 clear sections: · Performance League Tables· Individual Company Profiles · Industry Overview· Industry AveragesThe following companies are profiled by the report:
| Frozen Vegetable Producers | Ice Cream, Frozen dessert and Patisserie Producers | |
| Richmond Ice Cream Ltd | ||
| Garden Isle Frozen Foods Ltd | D. Sidoli & Sons (Shrewsbury) Ltd | |
| P A S (Grantham) Ltd | The Yeo Valley Organic Co. Ltd. | |
| Rosemary & Thyme Ltd | ||
| General Food Producers | ||
| Frozen Fish and Shellfish Producers | Apetito Ltd | |
| Auld's (Food) Ltd | ||
| Anchor Seafoods Ltd | The Authentic Food Group Ltd | |
| Andrew Christie Junior Ltd | Bartholdi Ltd | |
| Bloomsbury International Ltd | Brake Bros Ltd | |
| British Seafood Ltd | Cauldron Foods Ltd | |
| Charles Saunders Ltd | Cavaghan & Gray Group Ltd | |
| Coldwater Seafood (UK) Ltd | Conquest Foods Ltd | |
| The Cromer Crab Co. Ltd | Cook Enterprises Ltd | |
| Dawnfresh Seafoods Ltd | Dairy Produce Packers Ltd | |
| Five Star Fish Ltd | Daloon Foods (U.K.) Ltd | |
| John Law (Frozen Seafoods) Ltd | Danby's Foods Ltd | |
| Lunar Fishing Co. Ltd | Delta Dailyfood (Holding) Ltd | |
| Pinegain Ltd | F.W. Farnsworth Ltd | |
| Scofish Ltd | Findus Ltd | |
| The Seafood Co. Ltd | General Mills Berwick Ltd | |
| Seamark PLC | Giles Foods Ltd | |
| Sea Products International Ltd | Goodlife Foods Ltd | |
| F. Smales & Son (Fish Mrchts) Ltd | Headland Foods Ltd | |
| Young's Bluecrest Seafood Ltd | H. J. Heinz Frozen & Chlld Fds Ltd | |
| Homestead Foods Ltd | ||
| International Cuisine Ltd | ||
| Frozen Meat Producers | Jugg Foods PLC | |
| Kerry Foods Ltd | ||
| Autumn Foods PLC | Kitchen Range Foods Ltd | |
| Belcher Food Products Ltd | Mccain Foods (G.B.) Ltd | |
| Bernard Matthews Ltd | New Primebake Ltd | |
| Fribo Foods Ltd | Noon Products Ltd | |
| Grampian Country Chckns (Bcksbrn) Ltd | Oriental Express Frozen Foods Ltd | |
| O'kane Poultry Ltd | Oscar Mayer Ltd | |
| Round Head Ltd | Perkins Foods Holdings Ltd | |
| Spice Of Life Foods Ltd | Rhm Frozen Foods Ltd | |
| Roberts Traditional Puddings Ltd | ||
| S & A Foods Ltd | ||
| Ice Cream, Frozen dessert and Patisserie Producers | Saxby Bros Ltd | |
| S.K. Chilled Foods Ltd | ||
| Dale Farm Ice Cream Ltd | Stateside Foods Ltd | |
| Dawn Foods Ltd | Tillery Valley Foods Ltd | |
| Fredericks Dairies Ltd | Tryton Foods Ltd | |
| Granelli Mcdermott Ltd | TSC Foods Ltd | |
| Marine Ices Ltd | Unilever Ice Cream & Frzn Fd Ltd | |
| Maynard Scotts Ltd | Uniq PLC | |
| Oldfield's Ice Cream Ltd | Worldwing Investments Lt | |
| Richmond Foods PLC |
- Company Selection
- 1.1 Industry Definition
- 1.2 Company Selection
- 1.3 Changes of Name
- 1.4 New additions to the report
- 1.5 Treatment of Holding Companies & Subsidiaries
- 1.6 Large Changes in Accounts
- 1.7 Exceptionally Large Companies
- Industry Overview
- An expert review of the conclusions that can be drawn from the report, putting business developments into the context of recent industry developments and focusing on the performance of the industry as a whole and the leading players in it.
- Company Profiles
- Company data is presented alphabetically, with each company having a detailed profile over two pages showing address, activities, directors, subsidiaries and other company details plus Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, Ratio Analysis and comparative performance.
- Performance League Tables
- These list companies in order of their performance compared to each other on key performance factors:
- SIZE
- Sales
- Pre-tax profit
- Total Assets
- Number of Employees
- PROFITABILITY
- Return on Capital
- Return on Net Assets
- Pre-tax Profit Margin
- Return on Investment
- Profit per £ of Pay
- EFFICIENCY
- Asset Utilisation
- Sales / Fixed Assets
- Stocks / Sales
- Debtor Days Outstanding
- LIQUIDITY
- Current Ratio
- Quick Ratio (Acid Test)
- GEARING
- Total Debt / Net Worth
- Equity Gearing
- Income Gearing (Interest Cover)
- EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE
- Pay per Employee
- Sales per Employee
- Capital Employed per Employee
- Pay / Sales
- OTHER
- Exports / Sales
- GROWTH
- Sales growth
- Pre-tax Profit Growth
- Total Assets Growth
- Number of Employees Growth
- Exports Growth
- Industrial Profile
- This provides a Balance Sheet and a quick Profit and Loss account for the industry as a whole. Where the industry has been subdivided into 'subsectors', a profile for each of these is given, as well as a profile for the industry as a whole.
- Analysis Notes
- Definitions
- Company Index
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
| This Business Ratio report focuses on the leading 82 companies operating as frozen food producers. |
| The report analyses company and industry performance over the three years up to 7th March 2004. During this period, the average company has witnessed a 10.8 percent increase in sales, from £59.8 million in 2001/02 to £63.9 million in 2002/03 to stand at £66.3 million in 2003/04. Pre-tax profits rose at the higher rate of 30 percent, from £3.9 million in the first year of analysis to £5.1 million in the final year. Employee numbers for the average company also increased, from 582 in 2001/02 to 614 in 2003/04. |
| Frozen food producers have reported generally positive results over the three years analysed. All profitability, liquidity and gearing ratios improved resulting in healthy ratios in the 2003/04 period. Efficiency and growth ratios recorded more mixed results, though these also remain positive by the final year of analysis. |
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