WHITPORT LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-20 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-06
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£6M
-5.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£18M
-2.2% vs 2024
Employees
476
-2.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£223K
-49.3% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- WHITPORT LIMITED 2009-02-24 → present
- WHITPORT PLC 1982-04-14 → 2009-02-24
- WHITPORT LIMITED 1899-05-17 → 1982-04-14
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
3-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-01-31 | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £33,470,897 | £34,106,161 | |
| Operating profit | — | £284,764 | £51,494 | |
| Profit before tax | — | £440,105 | £223,003 | |
| Net profit | — | £254,313 | -£196,736 | |
| Cash | — | £6,003,319 | £5,652,386 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £20,161,523 | £19,583,094 | |
| Net assets | — | £18,275,992 | £17,867,224 | |
| Equity | £14,175,915 | £18,275,992 | £17,867,224 | |
| Average employees | — | 489 | 476 | |
| Wages | — | £12,882,240 | £14,672,797 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-01-31 | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | 0.9% | 0.2% | |
| Net margin | — | 0.8% | -0.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 1.4% | 0.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 24.5% | 25.1% | |
| Current ratio | — | 2.50x | 2.17x | |
| Interest cover | — | 7.13x | 0.97x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Fiander Tovell Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors consider the company and group to have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least the next 12 months. Thus they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- WHITPORT LIMITED · parent
- White & Co Plc 100%
- White & Co of Scotland Limited 100%
- Maidmans Moving and Storage Limited 100%
- GoodMove Moving and Storage Limited 100%
- R. H. Pardy Moving and Storage Limited 100%
- Security Self Storage Limited 100%
- Barnes of Lincoln Limited 100%
- Curtiss & Sons Limited 100%
- Grampian International Removers Limited 100%
- Southampton Removals and Storage Limited 100%
- Portsmouth Removals and Storage Limited 100%
- Record Management Limited 100%
- Landguard Property Investments Plc 100%
- Ivybridge Moving & Storage Limited 100%
- Inverness Moving & Storage Limited 100%
- Milton Keynes Removals and Storage Limited 100%
- Edinburgh Removals & Storage Limited 100%
- Chichester Removals Limited 100%
- Lund-Conlon Removers & Storers Limited 100%
- Wrekin Moving and Storage Limited 100%
- Archibald of Chichester Moving & Storage Limited 100%
- South Hams Moving and Storage Limited 100%
- Moving and Storage Limited 100%
- The Moving Shop (UK) Limited 100%
- Whites Moving and Storage Spain SL 100%
- White Van Lines Limited 100%
- Lawrence & Hall Limited 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 13 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PRANGLE, Stacey | Secretary | 2026-02-01 | — | — |
| OWERS, Rebecca Caroline | Director | 2014-05-27 | May 1964 | British |
| PALMER, Ian Michael | Director | 2019-03-01 | May 1961 | British |
| PRANGLE, Stacey | Director | 2026-02-01 | Jul 1981 | British |
| TURNER, Isabel Alice | Director | 2023-11-09 | Apr 1989 | British |
| WHITE, Andrew Wallis | Director | 2022-09-29 | Feb 1976 | British |
| WHITE, Robert Wallis | Director | 1997-10-13 | Oct 1942 | British |
Show 13 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOARE, David Anthony | Secretary | 1997-08-07 | 2012-01-31 |
| HOWSON-GREEN, Michael | Secretary | — | 1997-08-07 |
| NICKLINSON, Roy John | Secretary | 2012-01-31 | 2018-06-06 |
| VITORIA, Dominic John Mark | Secretary | 2018-06-06 | 2026-02-01 |
| ELLIOTT, Cuthbert Samuel | Director | — | 2005-03-04 |
| HALLIWELL, Geoffrey Richard | Director | — | 2002-06-23 |
| HOARE, David Anthony | Director | 2002-10-10 | 2023-09-01 |
| HOWSON-GREEN, Michael | Director | — | 2014-05-27 |
| JEANS, Richard Henry | Director | 1991-11-01 | 2023-02-16 |
| NICKLINSON, Roy John | Director | 1991-10-01 | 2020-04-01 |
| PALMER, Ian Michael | Director | 1994-04-18 | 1994-08-06 |
| VITORIA, Dominic John Mark | Director | 2018-06-06 | 2026-02-01 |
| WHITE, Dudley Wallis | Director | — | 1991-09-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 192 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-07-22 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-07-22 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-07-18 CC04 Statement of companys objects
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-02-13 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2026-02-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-13 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-07-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-03-06 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-08-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-07-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-07-22 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-07-22 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-07-18 | CC04 | change-of-constitution | Statement of companys objects | |
| 2023-11-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-08-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-02-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-10-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-08-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 2
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.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-01-31 vs 2024-01-31
-
Turnover
+1.9%
£33,470,897 £34,106,161
-
Cash
-5.8%
£6,003,319 £5,652,386
-
Net assets
-2.2%
£18,275,992 £17,867,224
-
Employees
-2.7%
489 476
-
Operating profit
-81.9%
£284,764 £51,494
-
Profit before tax
-49.3%
£440,105 £223,003
-
Wages
+13.9%
£12,882,240 £14,672,797
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers