REFRESCO BEVERAGES UK LIMITED

1. REFRESCO BEVERAGES UK LIMITED 2016-05-19 → present
2. REFRESCO GERBER UK LIMITED 2014-03-26 → 2016-05-19
3. GERBER JUICE COMPANY LIMITED 2006-06-28 → 2014-03-26
4. GERBER FOODS SOFT DRINKS LIMITED 1995-04-03 → 2006-06-28
5. GERBER FOODS MANUFACTURING LIMITED 1988-06-09 → 1995-04-03
6. QUANTOCK HOLDINGS LIMITED 1985-01-01 → 1988-06-09
7. QUANTOCK PRESERVING COMPANY LIMITED 1919-11-28 → 1985-01-01

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Ernst & Young LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Company's business activities together with the factors likely to impact its future development, performance and position are set out in the Strategic Report. The Company has well established relationships with customers and suppliers. The Company's financial forecasts, taking into consideration the current environment show that the Company is expected to remain profitable and generate positive cash flows giving the Company the ability to continue to operate for the foreseeable future. As a consequence the directors believe that the Company is a going concern and is well placed to manage its business risk successfully. The Company has the financial support of the Refresco Group which has sufficient cash and liquidity to fund the operations if necessary and a letter of support has been provided indicating that it will continue to support the business until at least 30 June 2026. The Company have prepared forecasts up to 31 December 2025, which they believe are based on reasonable assumptions, and have available bank facilities and inter group finance, which show that the Company has adequate resources to continue in business for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024 have been prepared on the going concern basis.”

Significant events

• “2024 was another year of significant externally driven change for the Company: the ongoing cost of living crisis, ongoing inflation; tightness in the labour market; economic and a change of government in the UK - these all contributed to another dynamic period.”
• “The Company is aware of the High Court ruling on 16 June 2023 Virgin Media v NTL Pension Trustees II Limited (and others), and subsequent dismissal of the appeal of this case on 25 July 2024, which confirmed the implications of not having a confirmation from the actuary in accordance with Section 37 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993, when rule changes were made to pension schemes such as this one from 1997 onwards.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

3

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +2.2%

  £407,613,000 → £416,388,000

• Cash

  -37.1%

  £4,387,000 → £2,759,000

• Net assets

  +31.6%

  £95,034,000 → £125,080,000

• Employees

  -0.4%

  693 → 690

• Operating profit

  +36.3%

  £22,439,000 → £30,592,000

• Profit before tax

  +56.5%

  £23,136,000 → £36,216,000

• Wages

  +3.8%

  £26,956,000 → £27,980,000

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