WHITFORD LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-14 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-30
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£10M
-22.3% vs 2023
Net assets
£29M
+18% vs 2023
Employees
77
-6.1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£15M
+76.4% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- WHITFORD LIMITED 2008-04-19 → present
- WHITFORD PLASTICS LIMITED 1969-07-28 → 2008-04-19
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £37,594,000 | £44,455,000 | |
| Operating profit | £8,431,000 | £14,998,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £8,635,000 | £15,229,000 | |
| Net profit | £6,684,000 | £11,402,000 | |
| Cash | £12,514,000 | £9,720,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £24,501,000 | £29,011,000 | |
| Net assets | £24,501,000 | £28,903,000 | |
| Equity | £24,501,000 | £28,903,000 | |
| Average employees | 82 | 77 | |
| Wages | £3,952,000 | £3,809,000 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 22.4% | 33.7% | |
| Net margin | 17.8% | 25.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 34.4% | 51.7% | |
| Current ratio | 4.88x | 6.77x | |
| Interest cover | 4215.50x | — |
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
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The company's forecasts and projections, taking account of a severe but plausible downside impact from inflation and changes in trading performance, show that the company should be able to meet all its liabilities as they fall due for a period of at least 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements. The company therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 18 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUTLER, Stephen Anthony | Director | 2022-02-01 | Sep 1966 | British |
| DIXON, Ruth Kristina | Director | 2019-07-03 | Apr 1976 | British |
| POLAND, Mark Charles | Director | 2022-09-30 | Aug 1978 | British |
Show 18 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATHERTON, Geoffrey William | Secretary | — | 1996-03-18 |
| CHRISTIAN, Jack | Secretary | 1996-03-19 | 1998-12-31 |
| GODDARD, Mark Simeon | Secretary | 1999-01-18 | 2007-02-28 |
| JOHNSON, David Andrew | Secretary | 2007-02-28 | 2019-08-31 |
| ATHERTON, Geoffrey William | Director | 1992-12-01 | 1996-03-18 |
| BENNETT, Stephen John | Director | 1997-10-01 | 2001-09-30 |
| COATES, Michael, Dr | Director | 2003-08-15 | 2006-05-17 |
| COPEMAN, Christopher Robert | Director | — | 1996-03-11 |
| GARNETT, Martin John | Director | 2006-03-06 | 2019-04-02 |
| GOODE, Richard Michael | Director | 2019-07-03 | 2022-02-01 |
| GRAHAM, Sidney Rhoades | Director | 1995-07-28 | 1998-05-01 |
| GUERIN, Emmanuelle | Director | 2019-04-02 | 2020-07-01 |
| NEELY, Peter Harold | Director | 1999-11-23 | 2000-06-30 |
| SPEIGHT, David Brian | Director | 2002-01-01 | 2003-08-15 |
| SUMMERS, Jennifer Victoria | Director | 2020-07-01 | 2022-09-30 |
| SYDES, Daniel Francis Edward | Director | 2004-05-01 | 2006-05-17 |
| WILLIS, Anne Severns | Director | 1995-07-28 | 2019-04-02 |
| WILLIS, David Pond | Director | — | 2019-04-02 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ppg Industries, Inc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2019-03-01 | Active |
| David Pond Willis Jnr | Individual | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-firm, voting-rights-75-to-100-percent-as-firm, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-03-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 165 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2020-12-15 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-16 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-08-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-22 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-03-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-03-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-09-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-08-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2020-12-15 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2020-12-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-12-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-12-09 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date |
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 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+18.3%
£37,594,000 £44,455,000
-
Cash
-22.3%
£12,514,000 £9,720,000
-
Net assets
+18%
£24,501,000 £28,903,000
-
Employees
-6.1%
82 77
-
Operating profit
+77.9%
£8,431,000 £14,998,000
-
Profit before tax
+76.4%
£8,635,000 £15,229,000
-
Wages
-3.6%
£3,952,000 £3,809,000
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