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Food ingredients · London, Greater London
Tate & Lyle
Tate & Lyle Public Limited Company
Tate & Lyle makes specialty food and beverage ingredients such as sweeteners, fibres, starches and texturants, which it sells to food and drink manufacturers worldwide.
Headline figures
FY to Mar 2026 · Group consolidated
Turnover
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Profit after tax
£98m
Net assets
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Cash
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Employees
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Retained reserves
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What the numbers say
3 findings from the figures, in plain English
Written by rules from the figures on this page. Not a forecast or a credit opinion.
History
| £ | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
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| Profit after tax | £98m | ||
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Every figure for all 3 years
“—” means we did not find the figure in a source; it is never filled with an estimate.
Balance sheet and ratios
From the filed balance sheets · £
| Balance sheet | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
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| Creditors due within a year | |||
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| Profit marginProfit after tax as a share of turnover | |||
| Return on equityProfit after tax as a share of net assets | |||
| Current ratioCurrent assets for every £1 owed within a year | |||
| Cash ratioCash for every £1 owed within a year | |||
5 balance-sheet lines and 4 ratios, every year
A ratio appears only for years where every line it needs was filed. Lines are as tagged in the accounts; nothing is added up or estimated.
Timeline
Checked 2026-10-18
- AccountsGroup of companies' accounts made up to 31 March 2026
- FilingMemorandum and Articles of Association (and 2 more like it since 2 August 2024)
- FilingResolutions (and 4 more like it since 11 August 2023)
- FilingStatement of company's objects
- SharesStatement of capital following an allotment of shares on 18 May 2026 · GBP 139,050,503.375 (and 22 more like it since 3 April 2023)
- DirectorsTermination of appointment of Lindsay Claire Beardsell as a secretary on 9 March 2026
- DirectorsAppointment of Mrs Victoria Barlow as a secretary on 9 March 2026
- DirectorsAppointment of Lindsay Claire Beardsell as a secretary on 27 February 2026
- DirectorsTermination of appointment of Matthew Robert Joy as a secretary on 27 February 2026
- DirectorsAppointment of Ms Heather Crawford Harding as a director on 27 January 2026
- DirectorsTermination of appointment of Glenn Michael Fish as a director on 26 January 2026
- FilingReplacement filing of SH01 - 28/05/25 Statement of Capital gbp 139049006.8333
24 earlier
- AccountsGroup of companies' accounts made up to 31 March 2025
- DirectorsTermination of appointment of Lars Vinge Frederiksen as a director on 24 July 2025
- DirectorsAppointment of Mr Stephen Edward Foots as a director on 24 July 2025
- DirectorsTermination of appointment of Patricia Corsi as a director on 31 March 2025
- SharesPurchase of own shares. Shares purchased into treasury: · GBP 2,933,601.877204 (and 26 more like it since 12 September 2024)
- DirectorsTermination of appointment of Sybella Jane Stanley as a director on 31 December 2024
- DirectorsAppointment of Glenn Michael Fish as a director on 15 November 2024
- DirectorsAppointment of Ana Cláudia Nogueira Pinto Fagulha Vaz De Lestapis as a director on 15 November 2024
- DirectorsAppointment of Ms Sarah Mary Kuijlaars as a director on 16 September 2024
- DirectorsTermination of appointment of Dawn Amanda Allen as a director on 15 September 2024
- SharesSecond filing of a statement of capital following an allotment of shares on 13 August 2024 · GBP 117,167,990.1 (and 6 more like it since 10 May 2024)
- Name21/6/24 treasury capital gbp 200033.30
- NameReturn of Purchase of Own Shares 5/7/24 treasury capital gbp 6512347.59
- Name28/6/24 treasury capital gbp 2147893.99
- Name12/7/24 treasury capital gbp 12710039.96
- DirectorsTermination of appointment of Claire-Marie O'grady as a secretary on 5 August 2024
- DirectorsAppointment of Matthew Robert Joy as a secretary on 5 August 2024
- AccountsGroup of companies' accounts made up to 31 March 2024
- DirectorsAppointment of Jeffrey Carr as a director on 1 April 2024
- DirectorsAppointment of Mr David Hearn as a director on 1 January 2024
- DirectorsTermination of appointment of Paul Anthony Forman as a director on 31 December 2023
- AccountsGroup of companies' accounts made up to 31 March 2023
- DirectorsTermination of appointment of Gerard Martin Murphy as a director on 1 September 2023
- DirectorsDirector's details changed for Lars Vinge Frederiksen on 17 October 2022
- Accounts
From the Companies House filing history. Routine confirmation statements are left out, and a run of the same filing is shown once.
Questions people ask
›What does Tate & Lyle do?
Tate & Lyle makes specialty food and beverage ingredients such as sweeteners, fibres, starches and texturants, which it sells to food and drink manufacturers worldwide. In its own words: “For 160 years, we’ve been helping our customers make food healthier and tastier.”
›How much turnover does Tate & Lyle make?
Answered in the full report
›Is Tate & Lyle profitable?
Yes: it made a profit after tax of £98m in the year to 31 March 2026, its latest filed accounts.
›Who runs and owns Tate & Lyle?
Answered in the full report
›Where is Tate & Lyle based?
Its registered office is 5 Marble Arch, London, W1H 7EJ, in London, Greater London.
›When was Tate & Lyle founded?
Tate & Lyle Public Limited Company was incorporated on 27 February 1903; the business dates from 1921.
›Is Tate & Lyle still trading?
The register lists Tate & Lyle Public Limited Company as active.
