ZEP UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-08-31 (in 3mo)
Last filed for 2024-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-25 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-11
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
+195.2% vs 2023
Net assets
-£3M
+28.8% vs 2023
Employees
38
-39.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£381K
+90.5% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- ZEP UK LIMITED 2014-08-29 → present
- FORWARD CHEMICALS LIMITED 1982-10-12 → 2014-08-29
- FORTHAVENS LIMITED 1979-06-12 → 1982-10-12
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £12,301,318 | £10,284,214 | |
| Operating profit | -£3,936,397 | -£283,501 | |
| Profit before tax | -£4,025,285 | -£381,405 | |
| Net profit | -£4,025,285 | -£381,405 | |
| Cash | £340,080 | £1,003,956 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£3,651,541 | -£2,600,921 | |
| Net assets | -£3,651,541 | -£2,600,921 | |
| Equity | -£3,651,541 | -£2,600,921 | |
| Average employees | 63 | 38 | |
| Wages | £2,569,349 | £1,888,852 |
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 | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -32.0% | -2.8% | |
| Net margin | -32.7% | -3.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 107.8% | 10.9% | |
| Current ratio | 0.66x | 0.52x | |
| Interest cover | -44.28x | -2.90x |
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
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future (which has been taken as 12 months from the date of the approval of these financial statements) based on current cash flow projections. The directors therefore believe it remains appropriate to prepare the financial statements of this company on a going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “Following the year end, a loan balance of "£1.2m owed to a related party has been waived.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 21 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| POLEGRI, Paolo, Mr. | Director | 2018-06-14 | Apr 1965 | Italian |
| RIQUELME MCLOUGHLIN, Maria Laura | Director | 2022-02-21 | Jul 1979 | American |
| THONHAUSER, Philip | Director | 2023-05-10 | Nov 1971 | Austrian |
Show 21 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOSELEY, John Edward | Secretary | — | 2012-01-31 |
| SALANS SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2012-01-31 | 2013-02-14 |
| BACHMANN, Mark Roger | Director | 2012-01-31 | 2015-03-07 |
| BRIGHENTI, Alessandro | Director | 2012-01-31 | 2018-06-06 |
| COLLINS, Robert Paul | Director | 2014-10-03 | 2015-03-07 |
| COX, Francis Joseph Anthony | Director | — | 2012-01-31 |
| DORAN, Martin Simon | Director | 2003-02-01 | 2012-01-31 |
| DUMORTIER, Henry | Director | 2020-11-02 | 2023-04-10 |
| DUNCAN, Matthew Lane | Director | 2020-04-30 | 2022-02-21 |
| HALE, Graham | Director | — | 2012-01-31 |
| HALE, Philip | Director | 1996-06-01 | 2012-01-31 |
| HALE, Vera Margaret | Director | — | 2012-01-31 |
| KOLDE, Kyle Stewart | Director | 2020-04-30 | 2022-02-21 |
| LUNT, Brian Edward | Director | — | 2005-10-12 |
| MOSELEY, John Edward | Director | — | 2012-01-31 |
| NORTH, Peter Brian | Director | 2010-07-02 | 2010-07-02 |
| NORTH, Peter Brian | Director | 2010-07-02 | 2012-01-31 |
| NOVO, Rob | Director | 2015-12-01 | 2020-04-30 |
| REILLY, Peter | Director | 2015-12-01 | 2020-04-30 |
| SHEPHERD, Linda | Director | — | 2012-01-31 |
| THEODORE, Philip Allen | Director | 2012-01-31 | 2014-10-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zep Europe B.V | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-10-11 | Ceased 2016-10-11 |
| Hale Group (Widnes) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-10-11 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 181 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-13 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-13 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-13 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-17 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-08-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-17 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-12-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-12-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-12-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-22 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-07-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-29 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-02-28 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-12-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- 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 2024-08-31 vs 2023-08-31
-
Turnover
-16.4%
£12,301,318 £10,284,214
-
Cash
+195.2%
£340,080 £1,003,956
-
Net assets
+28.8%
-£3,651,541 -£2,600,921
-
Employees
-39.7%
63 38
-
Operating profit
+92.8%
-£3,936,397 -£283,501
-
Profit before tax
+90.5%
-£4,025,285 -£381,405
-
Wages
-26.5%
£2,569,349 £1,888,852
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