KEELING & WALKER,LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-14 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-31
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£169K
-64.8% vs 2023
Net assets
£4M
+19.8% vs 2023
Employees
34
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£1M
+111.9% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £17,635,479 | £23,050,790 | |
| Operating profit | £992,123 | £1,568,551 | |
| Profit before tax | £621,924 | £1,317,587 | |
| Net profit | £622,947 | £1,224,957 | |
| Cash | £479,792 | £168,925 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,902,515 | £6,355,934 | |
| Net assets | £3,033,041 | £3,635,051 | |
| Equity | £3,033,041 | £3,635,051 | |
| Average employees | 34 | 34 | |
| Wages | £1,210,893 | £1,497,113 |
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 | 5.6% | 6.8% | |
| Net margin | 3.5% | 5.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 20.2% | 24.7% | |
| Current ratio | 1.44x | 1.82x | |
| Interest cover | 2.61x | 6.01x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Moore Kingston Smith LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Company is expected to continue to have access to adequate funding resources for at least twelve months following the date of signing the financial statements, and has received confirmation that the long-term loan facility detailed in note 15 to these financial statements will be available until at least 30 June 2026. The directors are confident that the parent company will not reduce the level of funding such that the Company would not be able to continue to trade for the period of twelve months following the signing of the financial statements. The Company participates in the Group's centralised treasury arrangements and so shares banking arrangements with its parent and fellow subsidiaries. On the basis of their assessment of the Company's financial position and of the enquiries made of Amalgamated Metal Corporation PLC, the Company's directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company will be able to continue in operational existence for at least twelve months following the date of signing the financial statements. As market and prices begin to stabilise and with a plan in place to increase the production of new product, we expect profitability to remain stable. The Company is well placed to manage the business risks successfully and has a reasonable expectation that it has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for more than 12 months. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- KEELING & WALKER,LIMITED · parent
- Thermox Performance Materials GmbH 100%
Significant events
- “Significant investment in a new R&D building will be seen in 2025 to continue our development of new and existing products.”
- “As at 31 December 2024 the company had contracted to the building of new R&D facilities amounting to £1,505,688 (2023 - nil).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEMPSEY, Stephen Christopher Roland | Director | 2023-02-21 | May 1991 | British |
| GUHL, Dieter Hans Josef, Herr | Director | 2013-12-18 | May 1960 | German |
| SHER, David Stephen | Director | 2016-05-05 | Jul 1983 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEYWOOD, Adrian Henry | Secretary | 2013-09-19 | 2015-07-17 |
| WOOD, Michael David | Secretary | — | 2013-09-19 |
| BORTHWICK, Alistair J | Director | — | 2002-11-13 |
| BROWN, Hamish Terence Kinnear | Director | 1998-11-26 | 2021-05-31 |
| COE, Raymond | Director | — | 1996-09-30 |
| FORD, Michael | Director | — | 2011-09-22 |
| GERMAN, David John Keeling | Director | — | 1991-12-31 |
| ISTRATESCU, Alexandru Bogdan | Director | 2021-05-31 | 2024-03-22 |
| LIPIEC, Stephen | Director | 2001-07-24 | 2013-12-18 |
| MURRAY, Malcolm Mitchell | Director | — | 1997-11-30 |
| ROBBINS, Giles Pruen | Director | 1997-11-24 | 2016-05-05 |
| THORNE, Nicholas | Director | 2013-09-19 | 2016-06-02 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amalgamated Metal Investment Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 126 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-16 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-03-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-02-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-04-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-01-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-06-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-06-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-06-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-01-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-09-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-06-24 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2020-06-24 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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
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Turnover
+30.7%
£17,635,479 £23,050,790
-
Cash
-64.8%
£479,792 £168,925
-
Net assets
+19.8%
£3,033,041 £3,635,051
-
Employees
0%
34 34
-
Operating profit
+58.1%
£992,123 £1,568,551
-
Profit before tax
+111.9%
£621,924 £1,317,587
-
Wages
+23.6%
£1,210,893 £1,497,113
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