RALPH MARTINDALE AND COMPANY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-02 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-18
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
+159.8% vs 2023
Net assets
£19M
-0.5% vs 2023
Employees
424
-2.8% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£409K
-776% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £15,545,236 | £14,982,446 | |
| Operating profit | £79,701 | £351,152 | |
| Profit before tax | £60,550 | -£409,320 | |
| Net profit | -£272,456 | -£1,209,970 | |
| Cash | £1,005,636 | £2,612,589 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £20,425,317 | £19,989,558 | |
| Net assets | £18,975,477 | £18,888,822 | |
| Equity | £18,975,477 | £18,888,822 | |
| Average employees | 436 | 424 | |
| Wages | £2,693,890 | £2,266,239 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 0.5% | 2.3% | |
| Net margin | -1.8% | -8.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 0.4% | 1.8% | |
| Current ratio | 6.96x | 8.47x | |
| Interest cover | 1.76x | 7.78x |
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
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors are satisfied that there are no material uncertainties over the ability of the Group to continue to trade for a period of at least twelve months from the approval of these financial statements. As such, the financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis.”
Group structure
- RALPH MARTINDALE AND COMPANY LIMITED · parent
- Crocodile Matchets (Nigeria) Limited 60%
- Crocodile Matchets (Ghana) Ltd 89.25%
- The Chillington Tool (Thailand) Company Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 17th December 2024, the shareholders of Crocodile Matchets (Nigeria) Limited, a 60% owned Group subsidiary company, passed a resolution to voluntarily appoint a liquidator in order to wind-up that company, due to its weak financial position. The Group relinquished control of Crocodile Matchets (Nigeria) Limited on 17th December 2024.”
- “The decision was made to close Crocodile Matchets (Nigeria) Limited in December 2024, in order to eliminate the Group's exposure to adverse foreign exchange movements in Nigeria.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 17 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FOX, Shaun | Secretary | 2007-05-02 | — | British |
| BEYDOUN, Abdul Houssein | Director | 2020-05-29 | Apr 1961 | Lebanese |
| ENSOR, Nigel Wayne | Director | 2014-03-17 | Jan 1962 | British |
| FOX, Shaun | Director | 2012-04-26 | Nov 1975 | British |
| KARKOUR, Alexandre | Director | 2020-05-29 | Apr 1968 | French |
| MEKBEBE, Yohannes | Director | 2020-05-29 | Feb 1975 | American |
Show 17 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLOVER, John Charles | Secretary | — | 1991-09-30 |
| KEARNEY, Michael | Secretary | 2003-01-01 | 2007-05-02 |
| YARDLEY, Jane Mary | Secretary | 1991-10-01 | 2002-12-31 |
| BARRETT, Martin David | Director | 2008-03-05 | 2020-05-29 |
| BERESFORD, Stephen | Director | — | 1998-08-14 |
| CROWLEY, Dennis | Director | — | 1994-05-25 |
| DENBY, Anthony Walter | Director | — | 2006-12-31 |
| GLOVER, John Charles | Director | — | 2000-03-31 |
| HARTLEY, Paul Anthony | Director | — | 2007-05-02 |
| HILL, Richard Picton | Director | — | 2012-09-12 |
| HOLLOWAY, Peter Richard | Director | 2001-08-01 | 2020-05-29 |
| KEARNEY, Michael | Director | 1998-06-24 | 2021-12-31 |
| MARSHALL, Ian | Director | 1996-03-01 | 2012-04-30 |
| MELROSE, Christopher Douglas | Director | 2012-06-29 | 2020-05-29 |
| MOOKHERJEE, Arunangshu | Director | 2022-10-15 | 2024-07-17 |
| ORME, Roy Clement | Director | — | 1991-10-22 |
| TSEPISIS, Athanasios | Director | 2014-03-17 | 2023-03-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Abdul Houssein Beydoun | Individual | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors | 2020-05-29 | Active |
| Mr Yohannes Mekbebe | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2020-05-29 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 214 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-07-26 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-07-26 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2021-07-09 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2020-12-01 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-06 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-03-06 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-09-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-07-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-10-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-09-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-04-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-09-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-26 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-07-26 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-07-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-01-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-09-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-07-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-07-09 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2020-12-01 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-3.6%
£15,545,236 £14,982,446
-
Cash
+159.8%
£1,005,636 £2,612,589
-
Net assets
-0.5%
£18,975,477 £18,888,822
-
Employees
-2.8%
436 424
-
Operating profit
+340.6%
£79,701 £351,152
-
Profit before tax
-776%
£60,550 -£409,320
-
Wages
-15.9%
£2,693,890 £2,266,239
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers