WILLIAM KING LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-03-31 (in 10mo)
Last filed for 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-15 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-01
Watchouts
Cash
£6M
+8.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£38M
-1% vs 2024
Employees
208
-7.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£2M
-5.3% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
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 | £186,092,000 | £176,867,000 | |
| Operating profit | £662,000 | £641,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,679,000 | £1,590,000 | |
| Net profit | £1,402,000 | £1,124,000 | |
| Cash | £5,409,000 | £5,851,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £39,524,000 | £38,289,000 | |
| Net assets | £38,484,000 | £38,096,000 | |
| Equity | £38,484,000 | £38,096,000 | |
| Average employees | 225 | 208 | |
| Wages | £7,289,000 | £6,993,000 |
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 | 0.4% | 0.4% | |
| Net margin | 0.8% | 0.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 1.7% | 1.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 51.7% | 47.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.33x | 1.49x | |
| Interest cover | 4.83x | 8.78x |
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
“Following this assessment, the directors are confident that the company and group have adequate liquid resources to meet the ongoing needs for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, as in previous years, the directors' have adopted the going concern basis in preparing the annual report and financial statements.”
Group structure
- WILLIAM KING LIMITED · parent
- Mi-King Limited 85.1%
- William King Steel Service Centres Pvt Ltd India 100%
- Mi-King s.r.o 50%
Significant events
- “The review includes the impact of the cyber incident affecting Jaguar Land Rover, a customer of the group, in September 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRAVILLE, Rachel | Secretary | 2023-12-11 | — | — |
| GRAVILLE, Rachel Mary | Director | 2008-11-24 | Mar 1979 | British |
| HIBBS, Christopher David | Director | 2026-04-01 | Jul 1969 | British |
| JOYCE, Robert Simon | Director | 2017-01-01 | May 1958 | British |
| MOORE, Jonathan | Director | 2010-01-01 | Mar 1960 | British |
| WORLEY, Edward Michael | Director | — | Mar 1936 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, Dipak | Secretary | 2006-10-01 | 2023-12-11 |
| ULLATHORNE, Peter John | Secretary | — | 2006-10-01 |
| COUSE, Philip Edward | Director | 1993-09-01 | 1999-11-29 |
| HIRST, Keith Ronald | Director | 2003-04-01 | 2021-06-25 |
| SLOAN, John Alan | Director | — | 2002-12-31 |
| ULLATHORNE, Peter John | Director | — | 2010-11-29 |
| WORLEY, Andrew John | Director | 2006-11-27 | 2026-03-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Rachel Mary Graville | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2024-10-28 | Active |
| Mr Edward Michael Worley | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2024-10-28 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 125 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-12-04 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-11-17 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-31 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-03-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-03-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-12-04 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-12-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-03-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-12-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-11-17 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-10-30 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-10-30 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-03-20 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-03-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-12-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-13 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-12-13 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-03-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-12-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-03-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-12-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
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Turnover
-5%
£186,092,000 £176,867,000
-
Cash
+8.2%
£5,409,000 £5,851,000
-
Net assets
-1%
£38,484,000 £38,096,000
-
Employees
-7.6%
225 208
-
Operating profit
-3.2%
£662,000 £641,000
-
Profit before tax
-5.3%
£1,679,000 £1,590,000
-
Wages
-4.1%
£7,289,000 £6,993,000
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