JAMES DURRANS & SONS,LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-14 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-30
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£15M
+56.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£28M
+1.4% vs 2023
Employees
88
+3.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£3M
+12.1% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £52,536,448 | £43,743,531 | |
| Operating profit | £1,517,155 | £1,969,256 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,486,638 | £2,788,677 | |
| Net profit | £2,089,911 | £2,550,353 | |
| Cash | £9,873,497 | £15,440,908 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £28,952,670 | £29,208,493 | |
| Net assets | £28,026,504 | £28,418,491 | |
| Equity | £28,026,504 | £28,418,491 | |
| Average employees | 85 | 88 | |
| Wages | £4,075,105 | £4,644,336 |
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 | 2.9% | 4.5% | |
| Net margin | 4.0% | 5.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 5.2% | 6.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 30.9% | 38.5% | |
| Current ratio | 2.81x | 2.22x | |
| Interest cover | 7.65x | 38.00x |
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
- Hawsons Chartered Accountants
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.”
Group structure
- JAMES DURRANS & SONS,LIMITED · parent
- Carbon International Limited 100%
- James Durrans (Tianjin) Coatings Limited 100%
- James Durrans GmbH 100%
- James Durrans Transport Limited 100%
- The Standard Pulverised Fuel Company Limited 100%
- Carbon International Holdings (PTY) Ltd 100%
- Carbon International Property (PTY) Ltd 100%
- Carbon International Trading (PTY) Ltd 100%
- Durrans RMS (PTY) Ltd 100%
- RMS Products (PTY) Ltd 100%
- Resistant Material Services (PTY) Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “Bilston suffered a major incident on one plant causing it to be shut down. Work is continuing to reinstate the reduced capacity, and the plant should be running again in early 2025.”
- “Plans are underway to construct a new warehouse at Brancepeth and increase the coating capacity at Penistone with the installation of a second Vollrath mixing plant.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COOPER, David Anthony | Secretary | 2022-06-09 | — | — |
| BUCKLE, Antony | Director | 2022-09-12 | Mar 1981 | British |
| DURRANS, Nicholas Geoffrey | Director | 1994-05-27 | May 1967 | British |
| HOOPER, Graham Paul | Director | 2017-06-26 | Aug 1966 | British |
| IVORY, Liam | Director | 2025-09-01 | Feb 1997 | British |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROOMHEAD, Brian | Secretary | 1996-07-12 | 2015-08-24 |
| HOOPER, Graham Paul | Secretary | 2015-08-24 | 2022-06-09 |
| TOOLE, Michael John | Secretary | — | 1996-07-12 |
| ARMITAGE, David John | Director | 2002-03-01 | 2022-06-02 |
| BROOMHEAD, Brian | Director | 2010-07-13 | 2015-09-30 |
| COOPER, David Anthony | Director | 2022-09-12 | 2025-09-01 |
| CROOKES, Peter | Director | 1997-01-03 | 2000-09-04 |
| DURRANS, Charles James | Director | — | 2008-07-08 |
| DURRANS, Christopher Foster | Director | — | 2026-01-01 |
| DURRANS, James Geoffrey | Director | 1994-05-01 | 2004-09-20 |
| DURRANS, James Geoffrey | Director | — | 1993-08-31 |
| DURRANS, James Walton | Director | — | 2000-04-01 |
| MOORE, Alan, Dr | Director | — | 2006-12-01 |
| TOOLE, Michael John | Director | — | 2013-04-29 |
| TUCKER, Nathan | Director | 2022-09-12 | 2023-12-06 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Durrans Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2020-01-31 | Active |
| Mr Nicholas Geoffrey Durrans | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-01-31 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 158 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-23 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-05-22 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-05-09 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-05-09 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-05-09 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-04-07 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-03-27 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-07-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-06-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-09-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-09-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 10
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-16.7%
£52,536,448 £43,743,531
-
Cash
+56.4%
£9,873,497 £15,440,908
-
Net assets
+1.4%
£28,026,504 £28,418,491
-
Employees
+3.5%
85 88
-
Operating profit
+29.8%
£1,517,155 £1,969,256
-
Profit before tax
+12.1%
£2,486,638 £2,788,677
-
Wages
+14%
£4,075,105 £4,644,336
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