F.W. THORPE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-27 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-13
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£43M
+26.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£190M
+7.4% vs 2024
Employees
452
-7.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£33M
+7.5% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-06-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £175,798,000 | £175,221,000 | |
| Operating profit | £30,613,000 | £32,059,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £30,681,000 | £32,984,000 | |
| Net profit | £24,313,000 | £25,412,000 | |
| Cash | £33,943,000 | £42,983,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £176,762,000 | £189,793,000 | |
| Net assets | £176,762,000 | £189,793,000 | |
| Equity | £176,762,000 | £189,793,000 | |
| Average employees | 489 | 452 | |
| Wages | £46,548,000 | £46,150,000 |
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 | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 17.4% | 18.3% | |
| Net margin | 13.8% | 14.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 17.3% | 16.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 26.0% | 23.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.58x | 1.80x | |
| Interest cover | 28.91x | 43.98x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors confirm that the Group and Company have adequate resources, with £6.1m cash and short-term investments, to continue in business for the foreseeable future, including the effect of increased costs caused by the ongoing conflicts where the group has had no direct global event.”
Group structure
- F.W. THORPE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY · parent
- Philip Payne Limited 100%
- Solite Europe Limited 100%
- Portland Lighting Limited 100%
- TRT Lighting Limited 100%
- FW Thorpe Nederland B.V. 100%
- Lightronics B.V. 100%
- Thorlux Lighting GmbH 100%
- Thorlux Australasia PTY Limited 100%
- Thorlux Lighting LLC. 100%
- Famostar Emergency Lighting B.V. 100%
- Thorlux Lighting Limited 100%
- FW Thorpe Espana S.L.U. 100%
- Electrozemper S.A. 90%
- Zemper France S.A.R.L. 90%
- R.G.B. S.L. 50%
- Ratio Holding B.V.
- Ratio Electric B.V.
- Ratio Danemark ApS
- Lumen Intelligence Holding GmbH
- SchahlLED Lighting GmbH
Significant events
- “Acquisition of SchahlLED - Germany (2023).”
- “Further investment in sustainability and net-zero targets validated by SBTi (2024).”
- “UK revenue stagnates and continued progress against net-zero targets (2025).”
- “Acquisition of Electrozemper - Spain and joint venture investment with Ratio Electric for electric vehicle charging products (2022).”
- “Lightronics recovers from factory fire with improved results and sustainability focus (2021).”
- “Consolidating businesses merged with Thorlux lighting (2019).”
- “Acquisition of Famostar - Netherlands and launched emergency lighting product offering (2018).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MUNCASTER, Craig | Secretary | 2010-06-28 | — | — |
| ALLCOCK, Michael | Director | 2000-07-01 | Oct 1967 | British |
| HAAFKENS, Frans | Director | 2022-11-17 | Jul 1962 | Dutch |
| MUNCASTER, Craig | Director | 2010-06-28 | Jan 1974 | British |
| THORPE, Andrew Battersby | Director | — | Jul 1949 | British |
| THORPE, Ian Anthony | Director | — | Jan 1946 | British |
| THORPE, James Edward | Director | 2017-07-03 | May 1977 | British |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MASON, Peter Dennington | Secretary | — | 2010-06-28 |
| BRANGWIN, Colin Michael | Director | — | 2016-11-30 |
| BRANGWIN, Nicholas Anthony Colin | Director | 2008-05-08 | 2011-12-02 |
| COOPER, Antony Michael | Director | 2008-05-08 | 2023-07-03 |
| DIMELOE, David Anthony, Dr | Director | 1997-07-01 | 2011-12-02 |
| LIPPOLD, David Michael | Director | 1996-07-01 | 2007-10-31 |
| LIPPOLD, Michael David | Director | — | 2002-06-30 |
| MASON, Peter Dennington | Director | — | 2024-01-18 |
| TAYLOR, David | Director | 2008-05-08 | 2023-07-03 |
| THORPE, Ernest George | Director | — | 1994-11-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 236 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-11-26 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-12-02 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-04-25 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-12-01 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-11-23 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-26 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-11-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-12-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-02 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-10-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-06-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-04-25 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-01-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-01 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-10-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-07-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-03 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2023-01-03 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with new address | |
| 2022-11-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-11-23 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-11-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-06-30 vs 2024-06-30
-
Turnover
-0.3%
£175,798,000 £175,221,000
-
Cash
+26.6%
£33,943,000 £42,983,000
-
Net assets
+7.4%
£176,762,000 £189,793,000
-
Employees
-7.6%
489 452
-
Operating profit
+4.7%
£30,613,000 £32,059,000
-
Profit before tax
+7.5%
£30,681,000 £32,984,000
-
Wages
-0.9%
£46,548,000 £46,150,000
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