WANZL LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-09-30 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-12 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-29
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£8M
-15.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£22M
-5.5% vs 2024
Employees
605
-6.2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£10M
+1% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £112,979,801 | £110,091,734 | |
| Operating profit | £7,567,464 | £9,728,503 | |
| Profit before tax | £10,389,878 | £10,494,617 | |
| Net profit | £8,177,710 | £8,689,724 | |
| Cash | £9,675,703 | £8,156,980 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £24,133,946 | £22,811,420 | |
| Net assets | £23,637,168 | £22,326,892 | |
| Equity | £23,637,168 | £22,326,892 | |
| Average employees | 645 | 605 | |
| Wages | £19,384,850 | £18,873,895 |
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 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 6.7% | 8.8% | |
| Net margin | 7.2% | 7.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 31.4% | 42.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.50x | 1.61x | |
| Interest cover | 257.20x | 312.86x |
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
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“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 of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- WANZL LIMITED · parent
- Symonds (UK) Limited 100%
- Wanzl (Ireland) Limited 100%
- Storetec Limited 100%
- S.H. Holdings Limited 100%
- Rolltek International Limited 100%
Significant events
- “During the year, the company sold its premises and look forward to the next phase of the company operating from its new head-quarters.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RENZHOFER, Bernhard | Director | 2015-08-31 | Mar 1968 | German |
| ROLLAND, Dean Michael | Director | 2011-01-01 | Aug 1975 | British |
| STARZMANN, Andreas Ruben | Director | 2022-02-01 | Jul 1978 | German |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHODES, John Eric | Secretary | — | 2007-01-31 |
| 1846 SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2007-01-31 | 2012-04-24 |
| CLOKE, Jason | Director | 1999-05-07 | 2010-07-28 |
| PHILLIPS, Andrew William | Director | 2003-06-01 | 2014-10-15 |
| ROLLAND, Dean Michael | Director | 2011-02-03 | 2011-02-03 |
| WAKEFIELD, Ernest Graham | Director | — | 1996-04-18 |
| WANZL, Gottfried | Director | — | 2015-08-31 |
| WANZL, Rudolf | Director | — | 2011-02-03 |
| 1846 SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2007-01-31 | 2007-01-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 139 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-02-24 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-09-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-10-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-02-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-09-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-09-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-06-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-09-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-07-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2018-09-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2018-04-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2017-08-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-12-31 vs 2024-12-31
-
Turnover
-2.6%
£112,979,801 £110,091,734
-
Cash
-15.7%
£9,675,703 £8,156,980
-
Net assets
-5.5%
£23,637,168 £22,326,892
-
Employees
-6.2%
645 605
-
Operating profit
+28.6%
£7,567,464 £9,728,503
-
Profit before tax
+1%
£10,389,878 £10,494,617
-
Wages
-2.6%
£19,384,850 £18,873,895
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