MENZIES DISTRIBUTION LOGISTICS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-28 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-28
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-22 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-08
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£132K
+26.9% vs 2023
Net assets
-£677K
+1% vs 2023
Employees
13
-18.8% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£8K
-61.9% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-28
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-30 | 2024-12-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £4,014,000 | £2,915,000 | |
| Operating profit | £21,000 | £8,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £21,000 | £8,000 | |
| Net profit | £21,000 | £7,000 | |
| Cash | £104,000 | £132,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£684,000 | -£677,000 | |
| Net assets | -£684,000 | -£677,000 | |
| Equity | -£684,000 | -£677,000 | |
| Average employees | 16 | 13 | |
| Wages | £535,000 | £449,000 |
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 | 2023-12-30 | 2024-12-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 0.5% | 0.3% | |
| Net margin | 0.5% | 0.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | -3.1% | -1.2% | |
| Current ratio | 0.38x | 0.40x |
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
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Company has prepared monthly cash flow forecasts and monthly budgets covering a period of twelve months from the date of approval of the financial statements. These forecasts have been tested by performing a sensitivity analysis on the critical assumptions.”
Significant events
- “During 2024 the Directors of the Company made the decision to demerge Menzies Distribution Services Ltd and its subsidiaries Menzies Distribution Solutions Ltd and Menzies Distribution Logistics Ltd from the Menzies Distribution Group.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 22 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIES, Matthew Stuart | Director | 2025-01-09 | Apr 1980 | British |
| JONES, Dean | Director | 2024-10-14 | May 1967 | British |
| MORSON, Richard James | Director | 2024-10-14 | Jun 1975 | British |
Show 22 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| PALMER, Steven John | Secretary | — | 2003-09-27 |
| BIBBY BROS. & CO. (MANAGEMENT) LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2003-09-27 | 2020-12-11 |
| BIBBY, Michael James | Director | 2018-01-31 | 2018-04-10 |
| BROWN, Michael Peter | Director | 2015-01-01 | 2018-01-31 |
| BYRNE, Paul Anthony | Director | 2014-01-01 | 2014-12-31 |
| CALLENDER, Alexei Robert | Director | 2016-04-11 | 2016-11-16 |
| CLARKSON, Peter James | Director | 2019-01-03 | 2020-12-11 |
| CULLINGFORD, Paul Andrew | Director | 2003-09-01 | 2015-06-30 |
| DE PENCIER, Theodore Henry John | Director | 2003-09-01 | 2007-06-29 |
| EYRE, Duncan Ashley | Director | 2016-04-11 | 2018-08-08 |
| GOETZ, Ekkehard | Director | — | 1992-07-19 |
| GOETZ, Gertraud | Director | 1992-07-20 | 1994-12-22 |
| GOULD, Neil Kerr | Director | 2014-01-01 | 2017-05-31 |
| MCCOURT, Paul Raymond Patrick | Director | 2020-12-11 | 2025-01-09 |
| MICHAEL, Gregory John | Director | 2020-12-11 | 2025-01-09 |
| MONK, Ann | Director | 2015-06-30 | 2016-05-10 |
| MORSON, Richard James | Director | 2017-04-17 | 2020-12-11 |
| PALMER, Steven John | Director | — | 2003-09-01 |
| SPEAK, Iain Alexander | Director | 2007-06-29 | 2014-12-31 |
| TIMM, Jurgen Herbert | Director | — | 1992-08-26 |
| TULLETT, Nigel Leonard Douglas | Director | 2018-08-08 | 2019-06-20 |
| WINKLER, Hans Helmut | Director | — | 2003-09-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Menzies Distribution Services Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 192 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-11 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2025-05-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-04 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-01-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-10-18 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-10-18 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-10-17 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-10-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-05-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-03 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-08-02 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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 2024-12-28 vs 2023-12-30
-
Turnover
-27.4%
£4,014,000 £2,915,000
-
Cash
+26.9%
£104,000 £132,000
-
Net assets
+1%
-£684,000 -£677,000
-
Employees
-18.8%
16 13
-
Operating profit
-61.9%
£21,000 £8,000
-
Profit before tax
-61.9%
£21,000 £8,000
-
Wages
-16.1%
£535,000 £449,000
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