PAUL HARTMANN LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-25 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-11
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£245K
-15.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£4M
+7.5% vs 2023
Employees
82
-13.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£365K
-19.8% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- PAUL HARTMANN LIMITED 1981-12-31 → present
- SHIFTVALE LIMITED 1980-10-17 → 1981-12-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £25,914,857 | £19,383,666 | |
| Operating profit | £507,041 | £398,542 | |
| Profit before tax | £455,026 | £364,998 | |
| Net profit | £357,464 | £254,226 | |
| Cash | £291,223 | £245,024 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,763,445 | £4,629,165 | |
| Net assets | £3,388,609 | £3,642,835 | |
| Equity | £3,388,609 | £3,642,835 | |
| Average employees | 95 | 82 | |
| Wages | £5,145,896 | £5,029,440 |
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 | 2.0% | 2.1% | |
| Net margin | 1.4% | 1.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 10.6% | 8.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 67.6% | 64.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.39x | 1.42x | |
| Interest cover | 5.93x | 4.81x |
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
- Bennett Brooks & Co Ltd
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The company finances its operations through its cash resources. The directors, following a review of forecasts and the company's current financial position, believe that the company has sufficient resources to meet its obligations when they fall due. The directors are therefore of the opinion that the company should continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Significant events
- “This fall is mainly due to the decision to exit our loss making Incontinence tender home delivery sector.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COUPE, Trevor John | Secretary | 1994-03-01 | — | British |
| COUPE, Trevor John | Director | 2000-10-01 | Oct 1963 | British |
| MACFARLANE, Rebecca Louise | Director | 2026-01-23 | Nov 1970 | British |
| MARQUARD, Jens Dieter | Director | 2021-07-02 | Jun 1965 | German |
| O'GRADY, Julia Mary | Director | 2022-06-27 | Nov 1967 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEDDERMAN, Carolyn | Secretary | — | 1994-03-01 |
| BOCH, Gerard | Director | — | 1998-01-01 |
| CASPER, Werner, Dr | Director | 2008-08-28 | 2015-03-10 |
| CASPER, Werner, Dr | Director | 1998-01-01 | 2005-02-28 |
| CORNWELL, Richard | Director | 2017-01-01 | 2022-04-13 |
| DEAKIN, Emma | Director | 2021-01-26 | 2023-05-02 |
| GEORGELIN, Francois | Director | 2015-03-12 | 2017-03-21 |
| GUSTAFSON, Bengt | Director | 2005-03-01 | 2013-06-30 |
| HEINZEL, Olaf | Director | 2013-10-01 | 2016-12-31 |
| PEREZ, Marc | Director | 2017-03-21 | 2021-06-30 |
| ROEHRL, Wolfgang | Director | 2013-10-01 | 2015-03-10 |
| SCHMIDT, Heinz | Director | — | 1992-04-30 |
| STYLES, Roger | Director | — | 2013-12-31 |
| WOOSEY, Karen Rachel | Director | 2017-01-01 | 2018-02-28 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Hartmann Ag | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 129 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-06-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-04-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-10-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-07-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-07-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-06-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-01-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-01-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-06-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-25.2%
£25,914,857 £19,383,666
-
Cash
-15.9%
£291,223 £245,024
-
Net assets
+7.5%
£3,388,609 £3,642,835
-
Employees
-13.7%
95 82
-
Operating profit
-21.4%
£507,041 £398,542
-
Profit before tax
-19.8%
£455,026 £364,998
-
Wages
-2.3%
£5,145,896 £5,029,440
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