EAE CREATIVE COLOUR LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-25 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-02-11
Watchouts
Cash
£399K
+178% vs 2023
Net assets
£3M
+17.2% vs 2023
Employees
78
-4.9% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£61K
-79.1% vs 2023
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.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- EAE CREATIVE COLOUR LIMITED 2000-05-08 → present
- EAST ANGLIAN ENGRAVING CO.LIMITED 1965-07-30 → 2000-05-08
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £9,966,298 | £10,021,464 | |
| Operating profit | £411,472 | £205,511 | |
| Profit before tax | £291,474 | £60,776 | |
| Net profit | £269,755 | £76,294 | |
| Cash | £143,369 | £398,604 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,159,184 | £4,643,448 | |
| Net assets | £2,182,664 | £2,558,850 | |
| Equity | £2,182,664 | £2,558,850 | |
| Average employees | 82 | 78 | |
| Wages | £2,835,443 | £2,794,515 |
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 | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 4.1% | 2.1% | |
| Net margin | 2.7% | 0.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 9.9% | 4.4% | |
| Current ratio | 1.15x | 0.99x | |
| Interest cover | 3.26x | 1.36x |
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
- Larking Gowen LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on this, the directors have concluded that they have a reasonable expectation that the Group will have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, being at least twelve months from the date of signing these financial statements. And they therefore continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing these financial statements.”
Group structure
- EAE CREATIVE COLOUR LIMITED · parent
- Castle Colour Packaging Limited 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FERGUSON, Mark Harry | Secretary | 2024-10-08 | — | — |
| FERGUSON, Mark Harry | Director | 1993-05-18 | Jul 1963 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERGUSON, Eleanor Agnes Murray | Secretary | 1998-10-01 | 2024-10-08 |
| FERGUSON, Mark Harry | Secretary | 1992-06-30 | 1998-10-01 |
| WAYMARK, Doris Irene | Secretary | — | 1992-06-30 |
| FERGUSON, Alexandra Louise | Director | 2004-04-01 | 2005-11-30 |
| FERGUSON, Thomas Thomson | Director | — | 2026-01-26 |
| GARNER, Greeba Elizabeth | Director | — | 2000-09-30 |
| TILBROOK, Simon Anthony | Director | 2003-01-10 | 2004-11-30 |
| WAYMARK, Doris Irene | Director | — | 1992-06-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Thomas Thomson Ferguson | Individual | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2024-10-16 |
| Mark Harry Ferguson | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 126 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-04-11 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-03-26 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-10-29 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-10-22 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-01 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2024-07-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-03-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-04-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-07-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-05-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-06-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-04-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-06-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-04-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-07-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-09-30 vs 2023-09-30
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Turnover
+0.6%
£9,966,298 £10,021,464
-
Cash
+178%
£143,369 £398,604
-
Net assets
+17.2%
£2,182,664 £2,558,850
-
Employees
-4.9%
82 78
-
Operating profit
-50.1%
£411,472 £205,511
-
Profit before tax
-79.1%
£291,474 £60,776
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Wages
-1.4%
£2,835,443 £2,794,515
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