CASTINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-26 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-12
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£16M
-52.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£127M
-4.9% vs 2024
Employees
1,178
-5.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£6M
-73.6% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £224,414,000 | £176,969,000 | |
| Operating profit | £19,759,000 | £4,772,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £21,286,000 | £5,627,000 | |
| Net profit | £16,721,000 | £4,173,000 | |
| Cash | £32,527,000 | £15,564,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £140,020,000 | £136,349,000 | |
| Net assets | £133,990,000 | £127,435,000 | |
| Equity | £133,990,000 | £127,435,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,241 | 1,178 | |
| Wages | £55,412,000 | £48,738,000 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 8.8% | 2.7% | |
| Net margin | 7.5% | 2.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 14.1% | 3.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 23.0% | 24.3% | |
| Current ratio | 3.30x | 3.14x | |
| Interest cover | — | 44.60x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Forvis Mazars LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have assessed the viability of the group and, based on the procedures outlined above in addition to activities undertaken by the board in its normal course of business, confirm that they have a reasonable expectation that the group will be able to continue in operation and meet its liabilities as they fall due over the period to 31 March 2028.”
Group structure
- CASTINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY · parent
- William Lee Limited 1%
- CNC Speedwell Limited 1%
- Castings Ductile Limited 1%
- W. H. Booth & Co. Limited 1%
Significant events
- “In June 2024 the group purchased the fixed assets and stock from the administrators of a business making large iron castings (up to 7 tonnes) in Scunthorpe.”
- “A contractor sustained a fatal injury while working at our Scunthorpe facility during the year.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MANT, Steven James | Secretary | 2010-11-01 | — | — |
| HARRISON, Stephen Richard | Director | 2024-09-26 | Feb 1968 | British |
| JONES, Alec Norman | Director | 2012-04-03 | Dec 1951 | British |
| MANT, Steven James | Director | 2010-11-01 | Aug 1975 | British |
| SMITH, Mark Lyndon | Director | 2022-11-16 | Oct 1963 | British |
| VICARY, Adam | Director | 2012-04-03 | Mar 1968 | British |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBY, John Christopher | Secretary | — | 2010-10-31 |
| COOKE, Brian John | Director | — | 2023-08-15 |
| COOPER, Graham | Director | 2005-05-16 | 2014-09-30 |
| EASTGATE, Andrew Keith | Director | 2018-09-01 | 2025-08-21 |
| GAWTHORPE, David John | Director | 2003-07-01 | 2017-03-31 |
| GRICE, Brian | Director | 1993-01-28 | 2000-05-31 |
| KING, Christopher Paul | Director | 1998-01-01 | 2015-08-18 |
| LEWIS, Mark Andrew | Director | 2003-07-01 | 2017-10-02 |
| LOCKER, Thomas George | Director | — | 1998-04-30 |
| ROBY, John Christopher | Director | — | 2010-10-31 |
| ROXBURGH, John Neil | Director | — | 2000-05-31 |
| SHARP, Derrik Alan Hearn | Director | — | 1994-04-14 |
| SMITH, Anthony James | Director | — | 2012-03-31 |
| WAINWRIGHT, Gerard Bernard | Director | 1998-05-01 | 2019-03-31 |
| WOODHOUSE, Terry | Director | 1993-01-28 | 2004-12-22 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 255 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-09-08 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-08-28 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-08-28 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-08-28 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-09-08 | ANNOTATION | |||
| 2025-09-08 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-09-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-28 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-08-28 | ANNOTATION | |||
| 2024-12-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-08-28 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-08-28 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-08-16 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2024-08-16 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2024-08-16 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2024-08-16 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2024-08-16 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2024-08-16 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2023-12-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 6
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
-21.1%
£224,414,000 £176,969,000
-
Cash
-52.2%
£32,527,000 £15,564,000
-
Net assets
-4.9%
£133,990,000 £127,435,000
-
Employees
-5.1%
1,241 1,178
-
Operating profit
-75.8%
£19,759,000 £4,772,000
-
Profit before tax
-73.6%
£21,286,000 £5,627,000
-
Wages
-12%
£55,412,000 £48,738,000
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