CARTOR SECURITY PRINTERS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-11 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-11-27
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£371K
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£2M
Equity attributable
Employees
66
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£1M
Period ending 2024-12-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- CARTOR SECURITY PRINTERS LIMITED 2022-01-26 → present
- WALSALL SECURITY PRINTERS LIMITED 1966-01-31 → 2022-01-26
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-09-30 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £12,484,971 | £13,281,229 | |
| Operating profit | £413,495 | -£1,115,504 | |
| Profit before tax | £167,340 | -£1,377,454 | |
| Net profit | -£1,206 | -£1,049,287 | |
| Cash | £99,617 | £370,918 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,543,456 | £3,589,191 | |
| Net assets | £2,792,577 | £1,743,290 | |
| Equity | £2,792,577 | £1,743,290 | |
| Average employees | 67 | 66 | |
| Wages | £2,316,076 | £2,881,345 |
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 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.3% | -8.4% | |
| Net margin | -0.0% | -7.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 6.3% | -31.1% | |
| Current ratio | 0.91x | 0.63x | |
| Interest cover | 1.68x | -4.26x |
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
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- 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. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Significant events
- “The factory was sold to a third party in the year.”
- “Exceptional costs of refinancing the loans and selling the Group to Spectra.”
- “The Defined Benefit Pension Scheme was novated out of the Group along with B&W Holdings Limited as part of the Group restructure as part of the acquisition deal with Spectra Systems Corporation. There is no asset or liability to recognise at 31 December 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRIGHAM, Andrew George Henderson | Director | 2020-10-01 | Jan 1990 | British |
| BRIGHAM, Ian Richard Henderson | Director | 2006-01-06 | Jun 1955 | British |
| FRENCH, Martin John | Director | 2008-12-15 | Aug 1968 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAGBEE, Nigel William | Secretary | — | 2005-01-26 |
| FRENCH, Martin John | Secretary | 2005-01-26 | 2023-12-21 |
| ASPINALL, Adrian Peter | Director | 1976-04-01 | 2006-06-14 |
| ASPINALL, Colin | Director | 1966-01-31 | 1986-01-01 |
| ASPINALL, Jack | Director | — | 1996-07-02 |
| ASPINALL, John | Director | — | 2006-06-14 |
| BANNISTER, Andrew Stuart | Director | 2020-10-01 | 2022-07-22 |
| BRIGHAM, Ian Richard Henderson | Director | 1995-07-25 | 2000-05-31 |
| BROADHURST, John Douglas Stewart | Director | — | 1994-09-02 |
| HARRIGAN, Patrick Laurence | Director | 1998-08-04 | 2002-03-28 |
| HIGGINS, Geoffrey Allan | Director | — | 2001-12-18 |
| WHITE, Paul Timothy | Director | 1995-07-25 | 2018-12-13 |
| WILSON, Paul Alan | Director | — | 2006-06-14 |
| WRIGHT, Thomas William | Director | 2003-01-21 | 2003-04-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cartor Security Print Group Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-11-28 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 172 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-02 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2024-04-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-01 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-01-10 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-01-09 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-29 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-11-29 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-11-29 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-11-29 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-11-29 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-11-29 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-11-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-27 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-03-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-06-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-09-30