SUPERIOR CREATIVE SERVICES LIMITED

1. SUPERIOR CREATIVE SERVICES LIMITED 1988-04-04 → present
2. SUPERIOR GRAPHICS AND PRINTING COMPANY LIMITED 1976-03-10 → 1988-04-04

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Grant Thornton UK LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In preparing these financial statements, the Directors have assessed the ability of the Company to continue to operate for a period of at least twelve months from the date of signing the financial statements. The Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, being a period of no less than twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “Throughout the year management focused on revenue and growth opportunities. The Company was successful in winning new business as well as extending contracts with several key clients.”
• “Both amounts owed by group undertakings and owed to group undertaking increased significantly in the year due to the company's increasingly significant role in the overall group, thus being involved with higher levels of intercompany activity.”
• “The war in Ukraine introduces a heightened level of geographic uncertainty which for us, like most has manifested in significant inflationary pressure driven by large increases in power prices. We have managed to mitigate some of these costs by proactively procuring energy through our power providers as well as working with our supply chain to procure in the most efficient way possible.”
• “The Company's gross profit margin increased in the year from 42% in 2023 to 44% in 2024 with the improvement being attributable to increased operational efficiency.”

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

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.

• Turnover

  +21.8%

  £19,217,020 → £23,402,388

• Cash

  +41.6%

  £388,437 → £549,951

• Net assets

  +2.4%

  £9,815,871 → £10,054,601

• Employees

  +1.1%

  93 → 94

• Operating profit

  -61%

  £723,937 → £282,643

• Profit before tax

  -73.2%

  £614,448 → £164,793

• Wages

  +9.5%

  £2,594,472 → £2,840,941

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