REED BOARDALL COLD STORAGE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-05 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-22
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+698.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£37M
-1.6% vs 2024
Employees
367
-12.2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£288K
-110.3% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- REED BOARDALL COLD STORAGE LIMITED 1992-09-07 → present
- REED BOARDALL STORAGE LIMITED 1992-08-24 → 1992-09-07
- ALLERTON COLD STORAGE LIMITED 1970-11-23 → 1992-08-24
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £67,052,806 | £60,802,735 | |
| Operating profit | £3,507,720 | £278,381 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,804,371 | -£287,889 | |
| Net profit | £2,128,293 | -£462,968 | |
| Cash | £203,042 | £1,621,622 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £49,474,344 | £47,563,443 | |
| Net assets | £37,593,203 | £36,983,715 | |
| Equity | £37,593,203 | £36,983,715 | |
| Average employees | 418 | 367 | |
| Wages | £13,069,781 | £11,518,385 |
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 | 5.2% | 0.5% | |
| Net margin | 3.2% | -0.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.1% | 0.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.80x | 1.51x | |
| Interest cover | 4.98x | 0.46x |
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
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have assessed all the above including forecasting performance against the bank covenants in their going concern assessment and do not anticipate any breach following the deferment period and the rest of the forecast period. They therefore consider it appropriate to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROBERTS, Sarah Karen | Secretary | 2023-10-06 | — | — |
| BALDWIN, Andrew Lyndon | Director | 2007-10-04 | May 1970 | British |
| BOARDALL, Marcus Keith | Director | 2004-03-31 | Jan 1962 | British |
| ROBERTS, Sarah Karen | Director | 2015-04-14 | Dec 1982 | British |
| TOWN, Stevland Paul | Director | 2020-06-01 | Mar 1979 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOARDALL, Keith | Secretary | — | 2003-12-01 |
| BOARDALL, Marcus Keith | Secretary | 2003-12-01 | 2023-10-06 |
| BOARDALL, Keith | Director | — | 2021-01-05 |
| CASSELLS, Thomas William | Director | 2014-07-01 | 2015-03-18 |
| GILL, John Howard William | Director | 2014-07-01 | 2017-12-29 |
| REED, Guy | Director | — | 2013-07-10 |
| RICHARDSON, Graeme Neil | Director | 2018-07-01 | 2021-09-01 |
| TILBURN, Garry | Director | — | 2014-06-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reed Boardall Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 147 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-05 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-05 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-18 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-18 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-08-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-26 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-07-26 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-04-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-12-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-10-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-10-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-10-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-09-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- 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
-9.3%
£67,052,806 £60,802,735
-
Cash
+698.7%
£203,042 £1,621,622
-
Net assets
-1.6%
£37,593,203 £36,983,715
-
Employees
-12.2%
418 367
-
Operating profit
-92.1%
£3,507,720 £278,381
-
Profit before tax
-110.3%
£2,804,371 -£287,889
-
Wages
-11.9%
£13,069,781 £11,518,385
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