HANMERE POLYTHENE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-14 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-31
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
-3% vs 2024
Net assets
£20M
+28.7% vs 2024
Employees
124
0% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£4M
+11.2% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- HANMERE POLYTHENE LIMITED 1987-09-10 → present
- HANMERE (POLYTHENE) LIMITED 1966-04-04 → 1987-09-10
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £29,664,603 | £30,378,667 | |
| Operating profit | £4,149,710 | £4,611,863 | |
| Profit before tax | £3,992,176 | £4,437,373 | |
| Net profit | £4,768,205 | £4,394,931 | |
| Cash | £2,615,821 | £2,536,799 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £16,024,571 | £20,805,659 | |
| Net assets | £15,290,638 | £19,685,569 | |
| Equity | £15,290,638 | £19,685,569 | |
| Average employees | 124 | 124 | |
| Wages | £4,404,599 | £4,696,137 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 14.0% | 15.2% | |
| Net margin | 16.1% | 14.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 25.9% | 22.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.87x | 2.17x | |
| Interest cover | 26.34x | 26.43x |
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
- TC Group
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors regularly review updates and forecasts and the sensitivities applying to each scenario They also regularly review the Company funding requirements and liquidity and covenant headroom As a result the Directors believe that preparing the accounts on the going concern basis is appropriate”
Significant events
- “post year end, the Group has completed the refinancing of its senior debt facilities and on improved terms”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 13 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FARRELL, Jim | Secretary | 2018-03-15 | — | — |
| FARRELL, Jim | Director | 2018-06-19 | Oct 1970 | Irish |
| LENNON, David | Director | 2017-12-22 | Jul 1966 | Irish |
| ROONEY, Mark Anthony | Director | 2023-09-27 | Dec 1962 | British |
Show 13 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARRIES, Stewart | Secretary | 2018-01-15 | 2018-03-15 |
| AD FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2009-07-01 | 2016-05-17 |
| AMES ACCOUNTING MANAGEMENT & EXECUTIVE SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | — | 2009-06-30 |
| FINEXYS LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2016-05-17 | 2018-01-15 |
| BUCHAN, Charles Stephen | Director | 1994-12-01 | 1998-09-08 |
| COWAN, Jacqueline Ann | Director | — | 2001-03-20 |
| COWAN, Jeffrey | Director | — | 2010-03-19 |
| COWAN, Michael Anthony | Director | — | 2016-04-09 |
| FOREMAN, Martin John | Director | 2015-10-05 | 2019-07-08 |
| KHAN, Mushtaq | Director | 2003-10-15 | 2020-08-03 |
| MORRIS, Glen Raymond | Director | 2003-10-15 | 2023-09-27 |
| SOUTHWELL, Geoffrey Steven | Director | 1994-12-01 | 1998-09-08 |
| VINCENT, Robert William | Director | — | 2016-03-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trueman Parent A Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2017-12-22 | Active |
| Consolidated Plastics Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-12-22 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 158 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2021-04-28 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2021-04-11 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-14 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-11-14 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-11-14 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-10-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-12-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-12-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-04-28 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2021-04-11 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2021-03-24 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2021-03-05 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2020-12-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- 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 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+2.4%
£29,664,603 £30,378,667
-
Cash
-3%
£2,615,821 £2,536,799
-
Net assets
+28.7%
£15,290,638 £19,685,569
-
Employees
0%
124 124
-
Operating profit
+11.1%
£4,149,710 £4,611,863
-
Profit before tax
+11.2%
£3,992,176 £4,437,373
-
Wages
+6.6%
£4,404,599 £4,696,137
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers