BUCHER MUNICIPAL LIMITED

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. BUCHER MUNICIPAL LIMITED 2020-09-21 → present
2. JOHNSTON SWEEPERS LIMITED 2003-04-06 → 2020-09-21
3. JOHNSTON ENGINEERING LIMITED 1984-01-01 → 2003-04-06
4. JOHNSTON BROTHERS (ENGINEERING) LIMITED 1924-08-11 → 1984-01-01

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

Cooper Parry Group Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making enquiries, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The Company therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.”

Group structure

1. BUCHER MUNICIPAL LIMITED · parent
   1. Bucher Municipal Pty Limited 100% · Australia · Manufacture of refuse vehicles, sewer tankers and waste compactors and the distribution of other Bucher equipment
   2. Johnston Sweepers Limited 100% · United Kingdom · Dormant

Significant events

• “In March 2024, the company initiated a recall campaign to secure and replace a component of the Truck Mounted Sweeper rear door mechanism on a specific range of units produced between December 2014 and December 2020 following an incident in December 2023 involving a customer's vehicle. The recall campaign is ongoing.”

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

Filings

14

last 12 months

Capital events

2

last 24 months

Officers appointed

4

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +13.3%

  £145,994,000 → £165,479,000

• Cash

  +22.8%

  £10,905,000 → £13,391,000

• Net assets

  +21.8%

  £46,471,000 → £56,591,000

• Employees

  +9%

  555 → 605

• Operating profit

  -2.7%

  £8,591,000 → £8,356,000

• Profit before tax

  -9.7%

  £5,629,000 → £5,085,000

• Wages

  +15.2%

  £24,119,000 → £27,774,000

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