HILL & SMITH INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-18 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-04
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£12M
+131.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£55M
-14.6% vs 2023
Employees
232
-11.1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£6M
+353% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- HILL & SMITH INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED 2022-11-03 → present
- HILL & SMITH LIMITED 1982-03-30 → 2022-11-03
- BIRTLEY MANUFACTURING (INDUSTRIAL) LIMITED 1976-07-26 → 1982-03-30
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £81,696,000 | £76,722,000 | |
| Operating profit | £3,594,000 | £8,869,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,305,000 | £5,911,000 | |
| Net profit | -£901,000 | £4,760,000 | |
| Cash | £5,205,000 | £12,027,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £83,121,000 | £70,454,000 | |
| Net assets | £64,477,000 | £55,065,000 | |
| Equity | £64,477,000 | £55,065,000 | |
| Average employees | 261 | 232 | |
| Wages | £13,838,000 | £12,606,000 |
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 | 4.4% | 11.6% | |
| Net margin | -1.1% | 6.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 4.3% | 12.6% | |
| Current ratio | 0.71x | 1.55x | |
| Interest cover | 1.46x | 2.89x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Consequently, the directors are confident that the company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due during the going concern period, and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis. In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period to 30 June 2026.”
Group structure
- HILL & SMITH INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED · parent
- Safety and Security Barriers Holdings Limited 100%
- Hardstaff Barriers Limited 100%
- Varley & Gulliver Limited 100%
- Prolectric Services Limited 100%
- Black Oldco Limited 100%
- Asset International Structures Limited 100%
- Asset International Limited 100%
- Variable Message Signs Limited 100%
- VMS Newco Limited 100%
- Forgen Renewables Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The fall in turnover in the period was a consequence of the sale of the Company's engineered structured span solutions business on 1 January 2024.”
- “In the prior year, on 1 April 2023 the Company restructured to sell the trade and certain assets of its car park solutions business Berry Systems into a standalone entity, Black Oldco Limited.”
- “During the year the Group undertook an internal corporate restructuring project impacting the Company. As a result, the following transactions occurred in the Company: The Company's parent, Hill & Smith PLC, contributed its investment in Birtley Group Limited to the Company at book value of £8,713,000, in exchange for further shares in the Company amounting to £1 ordinary share capital and £8,712,999 share premium; The Company contributed its investment in Birtley Group Limited to Cobaco Holdings Limited, another entity directly owned by the Company, at book value of £8,713,000 in exchange for further shares in Cobaco Holdings Limited; The Company then sold its investment in Cobaco Holdings Limited to a fellow Group company, Ash & Lacy Limited, at book value of £51,635,000, with consideration left on the intercompany account as at the year-end date; The Company undertook a share premium reduction, reducing its £56,302,000 share premium to £nil, and applied the reduction to its distributable reserves; The Company declared a dividend to its parent, Hill & Smith PLC, of £12,643,000 which is left outstanding on intercompany account; The Company settled its intercompany account with Hill & Smith PLC by way of transfer of the consideration outstanding of £51,635,000 due from Ash & Lacy Limited in respect of the sale of its investment in Cobaco Holdings Limited.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 34 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATTERBURY, Karen Lorraine | Secretary | 2024-08-19 | — | — |
| HARRIMAN, Matthew | Director | 2017-12-01 | Apr 1976 | British |
| LAMB, Francesca Martine | Director | 2022-05-01 | Mar 1991 | British |
| REED, Alan | Director | 2022-01-01 | Mar 1985 | British |
| TODD, David John | Director | 2019-01-11 | Dec 1971 | British |
Show 34 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUSTWICK, David Edward | Secretary | — | 1998-09-30 |
| BURR, Christopher John | Secretary | 2004-01-30 | 2005-07-05 |
| HAYHURST, Fred | Secretary | 2007-01-04 | 2007-02-28 |
| HAYHURST, Fred | Secretary | 2006-10-27 | 2007-02-28 |
| HENDERSON, Charles Alex | Secretary | 2015-01-01 | 2024-08-19 |
| HUMPHREYS, John Christopher | Secretary | 2007-02-28 | 2015-01-01 |
| HUMPHREYS, John Christopher | Secretary | 2005-07-05 | 2006-10-27 |
| MOSS, Raymond Alan | Secretary | 1998-10-01 | 2004-01-30 |
| ADDY, John Leslie | Director | 2001-01-01 | 2013-05-31 |
| AUSTWICK, David Edward | Director | 1992-02-10 | 1998-09-30 |
| BEANEY, Andrew John | Director | 2019-08-01 | 2022-01-31 |
| BURR, Christopher John | Director | 2001-07-26 | 2008-03-11 |
| COOPER, Michael Alan | Director | 1993-10-01 | 2002-08-31 |
| DARLINGTON, Ian | Director | 2006-01-01 | 2013-05-31 |
| DEAN, Alan John | Director | 2007-01-03 | 2017-11-17 |
| DUNN, Steven Michael | Director | 2013-06-01 | 2021-11-21 |
| EVERETT, Howard Caile | Director | — | 2003-12-31 |
| FELLOWS, John Howard | Director | 1993-10-01 | 1998-12-31 |
| FELLOWS, Michael Reginald John | Director | 2001-01-01 | 2006-02-28 |
| FOSTER, John Duncan | Director | 2022-05-01 | 2025-06-02 |
| GROVE, David Leslie | Director | 1999-06-21 | 2007-04-11 |
| HILL, Graham Paul | Director | 2014-07-01 | 2015-10-31 |
| HOPKINS, Steven John | Director | 1997-01-06 | 2001-01-01 |
| JONES, Bryan | Director | 2000-02-15 | 2003-12-31 |
| MCTAVISH, Richard | Director | 2016-07-01 | 2024-02-01 |
| MOSS, Raymond Alan | Director | 1998-10-01 | 2010-01-01 |
| MUIR, Derek William | Director | 1998-10-01 | 2018-08-01 |
| PEGLER, Mark | Director | 2008-03-11 | 2018-08-01 |
| RABONE, Robert James | Director | 2010-01-01 | 2014-04-25 |
| SARA, Michael Edward | Director | — | 1998-06-10 |
| SIMPSON, Roger William | Director | — | 1998-09-30 |
| THOMAS, James | Director | 2016-06-01 | 2021-06-30 |
| TONKS, Mark Andrew | Director | 1998-10-01 | 2019-02-15 |
| WILKINSON, Peter John | Director | 2003-02-01 | 2025-10-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hill & Smith Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 234 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-01-06 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-12-19 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-11-03 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-11-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-06 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-01-02 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-12-19 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2024-12-19 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2024-12-19 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2024-12-19 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-12-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-02 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-02 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-02-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-12-19 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-11-03 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 3
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
-6.1%
£81,696,000 £76,722,000
-
Cash
+131.1%
£5,205,000 £12,027,000
-
Net assets
-14.6%
£64,477,000 £55,065,000
-
Employees
-11.1%
261 232
-
Operating profit
+146.8%
£3,594,000 £8,869,000
-
Profit before tax
+353%
£1,305,000 £5,911,000
-
Wages
-8.9%
£13,838,000 £12,606,000
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