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ARCHBOLD LOGISTICS LIMITED

#01146071 · Active · Incorporated 1973-11-16 (52y 6m) · Last filing 2025-10-31 (7mo ago)
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Next accounts due

2026-09-30 (in 4mo)

Last filed for 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-10-31 (in 5mo)

Last made up 2025-10-17

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£1M

+210.3% highest in 5 filed years

Net assets

£5M

+1.7% highest in 5 filed years

Employees

132

0% vs 2023

Profit before tax

£1M

-15.4% vs 2023

Name history

Renamed 1 time since incorporation

  1. ARCHBOLD LOGISTICS LIMITED 2002-08-23 → present
  2. ARCHBOLD FREIGHTAGE LIMITED 1973-11-16 → 2002-08-23

Accounts

7-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31

Metric Trend 2018-12-312019-12-312020-12-312021-12-312022-12-312023-12-312024-12-31
Turnover ——£16,783,817——£28,568,411£28,831,520
Operating profit ——£493,229——£1,470,006£1,239,169
Profit before tax ——£383,553£1,718,798£1,372,474£1,379,631£1,167,359
Net profit ——£307,904£1,421,079£1,141,516£1,065,291£826,420
Cash ——£544,835£941,635£818,258£470,746£1,460,741
Total assets less current liabilities ——£8,699,554£9,794,907£10,521,935£11,212,337£11,049,384
Net assets ——£1,393,416£3,189,495£4,996,761£5,139,802£5,224,722
Equity £1,254,012£1,327,702£1,393,416£3,189,495£4,996,761£5,139,802£5,224,722
Average employees ——116125136132132
Wages ———£7,610,130£7,866,025£7,347,600£7,467,244

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 2018-12-312019-12-312020-12-312021-12-312022-12-312023-12-312024-12-31
Operating margin ——2.9%——5.1%4.3%
Net margin ——1.8%——3.7%2.9%
Return on capital employed ——5.7%——13.1%11.2%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets) —————70.7%68.4%
Current ratio —————1.38x1.46x
Interest cover ——4.50x——15.46x17.08x

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
Pierce C A Limited
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. As a result the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

  1. ARCHBOLD LOGISTICS LIMITED · parent
    1. Archbold Logistics (Manchester) Limited 100% · United Kingdom

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

5 active · 26 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
HOLMES, Julie Secretary 2010-08-24 — —
ARCHBOLD, David Stuart Director 1993-09-08 Sep 1941 British
ARCHBOLD, Yannis Christophe Director 2014-04-01 Mar 1976 British
HOLMES, Julie Director 2008-01-01 Jul 1962 British
MAHER, Alan Director 2001-10-01 Jul 1968 British
Show 26 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
ASHFORD, Brian George David Secretary 2001-06-04 2009-07-31
ASHFORD, Brian George David Secretary 1998-03-25 2000-06-15
COX, Geoffrey Benson Secretary 1995-10-26 1998-03-25
COX, Geoffrey Benson Secretary — 1993-09-08
PRICE, Helen Rosemary Secretary 2000-06-15 2001-06-04
ROBINSON, Colin Secretary 1993-09-08 1995-10-25
ADAMS, John Gilbert Director 1994-02-10 1997-09-30
ARCHBOLD, Xavier Marc Director 2005-09-01 2012-09-03
ARCHBOLD, Yannis Christophe Director 2008-07-23 2010-06-18
ASHFORD, Brian George David Director 1998-09-17 2009-10-01
BATEMAN, Paul Director 2007-10-04 2009-03-31
BLACKWOOD, Walter Murray Director 2017-07-10 2019-09-30
COX, Geoffrey Benson Director 1994-02-10 2004-04-21
COX, Geoffrey Benson Director — 1993-09-08
CRESSWELL, Brian David Director — 1994-09-14
EDGE, David Robert Director 2008-07-23 2010-09-02
HORTON, Geoffrey Charles Director — 1994-07-08
HUTCHINSON, Stanley Russell Director 1994-10-31 1998-07-31
KENNEDY, Paul Director 2009-08-01 2012-07-18
MATTHEWS, Ian Director 1998-09-17 2008-12-31
MORFILL, Michael Director 2013-01-01 2017-06-28
NEWMAN, Michael Harry Director 1993-09-08 1994-06-06
ROBINSON, Colin Director — 1995-10-25
TONKS, Ronald Joseph Director 1994-02-10 1996-07-24
TRINDER, Richard Robert Director 1998-03-25 2009-03-31
WILKINSON, Geoffrey Director 1998-09-17 2008-03-28

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Archbold Holdings Limited Corporate entity Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors 2016-04-06 Active

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 173 total filings

Date Type Category Description
2025-10-31 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2025-09-23 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full PDF
2024-10-31 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2024-08-08 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full PDF
2023-10-31 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2023-08-02 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full PDF
2022-10-17 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2022-08-09 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full PDF
2022-06-06 MR04 mortgage Mortgage satisfy charge full
2021-11-19 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2021-09-29 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full PDF
2020-12-23 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full PDF
2020-10-23 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2019-10-17 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2019-09-30 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2019-09-19 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2018-10-22 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2018-06-05 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2017-10-23 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2017-07-27 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
2

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
0

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

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

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