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FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
COMPANY INFORMATION
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
STRATEGIC REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
The Company's turnover was £10,103,997 (2022 - £30,542,904). Net assets at 31 December 2023 amounted to £79,264 (2022 - £7,920). The Company ceased trading as a meat proceesor in 2020 and began wholesaling food in 2021. In 2020, the Directors had disposed of the majority of the assets and discharged in full most of the third party liabilities of the business.
Economic Risk
The Company’s trading is significantly influenced by (i) the availability and pricing of high quality beef and lamb stocks, (ii) the risk of increased interest rates and/or inflation having an adverse impact on served markets, (iii) the risk of unrealistic increases in wages or infrastructural cost impacting adversely on competitiveness of the Company and its principal customers and (iv) the risk of adverse exchange movements. The Company actively manages its purchasing activity by innovative product sourcing to ensure an adequate supply of stocks to meet market requirements. These risks are also managed by strict control of costs. Foreign exchange exposure is actively managed using both forward foreign exchange contracts and currency contracts. Competition Risk The Company has traditionally been at risk from competitors, using tactics such as predatory pricing, looking to damage key customer relationships. The Directors of the Company manage competition risk through paying close attention to customer service levels and by distinguishing the Company from our competitors through innovation of both products and services. Environmental Risk The Company is continually at risk from the various animal and human health scares that are linked to food. In recent years, this has included foot and mouth disease, avian flu and BSE. The Company has developed product quality and traceability systems to minimise the potential risks from all known sources. Financial Risk The Company has budgetary and financial reporting procedures, supported by appropriate key performance indicators, to manage credit, liquidity and other financial risk.
The Directors are in the process of compiling a set of Financial KPI's for the Company.
This report was approved by the board and signed on its behalf.
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
The Directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2023.
The Directors are responsible for preparing the Strategic Report, the Directors' Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
In preparing these financial statements, the Directors are required to:
∙select suitable accounting policies for the Company's financial statements and then apply them consistently;
∙make judgments and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
∙prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Company will continue in business.
The Directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the Company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Company and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The profit for the year, after taxation, amounted to £71,344 (2022 -£9,772).
No dividends or transfers to reserves are recommended by the Directors (2022 - £Nil).
The Directors who served during the year were:
It is the intention of the Directors to continue to develop the activities of the Company.
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
There have been no significant events affecting the Company since the year end.
The auditors, HSOC Accountants Limited, will be proposed for reappointment in accordance with section 485 of the Companies Act 2006.
This report was approved by the board and signed on its behalf.
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
We have audited the financial statements of Kepak Huddersfield Limited (the 'Company') for the year ended 31 December 2023, which comprise the Statement of Comprehensive Income, the Statement of Financial Position, the Statement of Cash Flows, the Statement of Changes in Equity and the related notes, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the United Kingdom, including the Financial Reporting Council's Ethical Standard and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the Directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED (CONTINUED)
The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report other than the financial statements and our Auditors' Report thereon. The Directors are responsible for the other information contained within the Annual Report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
We have nothing to report in this regard.
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
∙the information given in the Strategic Report and the Directors' Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
∙the Strategic Report and the Directors' Report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the Company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Strategic Report or the Directors' Report.
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED (CONTINUED)
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED (CONTINUED)
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an Auditors' Report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:
Based on understanding of the Company and its industry, we identified that the principal risks of non-compliance with laws and regulations related to the UK tax legislation, pensions legislation, employment regulation and health and safety regulation, anti-bribery, corruption and fraud, money laundering, non-compliance with implementation of government support schemes relating to COVID-19, and we considered the extent to which non-compliance might have a material effect on the financial statements. We also considered those laws and regulations that have a direct impact on the preparation of the financial statements, such as the Companies Act 2006.
We evaluated the Directors’ and management’s incentives and opportunities for fraudulent manipulation of the financial statements (including the risk of override of controls) and determined that the principal risks were related to posting manual journal entries to manipulate financial performance, management bias through judgements and assumptions in significant accounting estimates and significant one-off or unusual transactions. Our audit procedures were designed to respond to those identified risks, including non-compliance with laws and regulations (irregularities) and fraud that are material to the financial statements. Our audit procedures included but were not limited to: • Discussing with the Directors and management their policies and procedures regarding compliance with laws and regulations; • Communicating identified laws and regulations throughout our engagement team and remaining alert to any indications of non-compliance throughout our audit; and • Considering the risk of acts by the Company which were contrary to applicable laws and regulations, including fraud. Our audit procedures in relation to fraud included but were not limited to: • Making enquiries of the Directors and management on whether they had knowledge of any actual, suspected or alleged fraud; • Gaining an understanding of the internal controls established to mitigate risks related to fraud; • Discussing amongst the engagement team the risks of fraud; and • Addressing the risks of fraud through management override of controls by performing journal entry testing.
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED (CONTINUED)
There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures described above and the primary responsibility for the prevention and detection of irregularities including fraud rests with management. As with any audit, there remained a risk of non-detection of irregularities, as these may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations or the override of internal controls.
A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Auditors' Report.
This report is made solely to the Company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the Company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an Auditors' Report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Company and the Company's members, as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
for and on behalf of
Chartered Accountants and Statutory Audit Firm
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
REGISTERED NUMBER: 11427292
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2023
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf by:
The notes on pages 15 to 22 form part of these financial statements.
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
ANALYSIS OF NET DEBT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
The Company is limited by shares and incorporated in the United Kingdom, having its registered office at The Snackhouse, St. Georges Park, Kirkham, Preston, PR4 2DZ. The Company's registered number is 11427292. The Company's principal activity is the wholesale trading of food.
2.ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention unless otherwise specified within these accounting policies and in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102, the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland and the Companies Act 2006.
The preparation of financial statements in compliance with FRS 102 requires the use of certain critical accounting estimates. It also requires management to exercise judgment in applying the Company's accounting policies (see note 3).
The following principal accounting policies have been applied:
The accounts have been prepared under the going concern basis as the Company’s intermediate parent undertaking, Kepak Holdings, has confirmed it will continue to provide financial support to enable the Company to meet its liabilities as they fall due.
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
2.ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
2.ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)
Provision for Risks and Liabilities: A provision is recognised in the balance sheet when the Company has a present legal or constructive obligation as a result of a past event, and it is probable that an outflow of economic benefits would be required to settle the obligation. If the effect of the time value of money is material, provisions are determined by discounting the expected future cash flows at a pre-tax rate that reflects the time value of money and, where appropriate, the risks specific to the liability.
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
Analysis of turnover by country of destination:
The Company has no employees other than the Directors, who did not receive any remuneration (2022 - £Nil).
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
In 2021 an increase in the corporation tax rate to 25% with effect from 1 April 2023 was substantively enacted. The 23.5% rate used above reflects 9 months of this new rate and 3 months of the previous rate of 19%.
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
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KEPAK HUDDERSFIELD LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
Profit and loss account
16.OTHER FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS
The Company’s bankers have given guarantees to the HMRC on behalf of the Company amounting to £100k (2022 – £100k).
There were no transactions with Directors.
The Company's parent is Kepak Holdings; the ultimate holding company is Kingate Investments Unlimited, an unlimited company incorporated in the Isle of Man.
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