SWAN MILL PAPER COMPANY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-19 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2026-01-05
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£13M
-21.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£32M
+6.6% vs 2024
Employees
124
0% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£2M
-16.8% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- SWAN MILL PAPER COMPANY LIMITED 1984-01-24 → present
- FANINEX LIMITED 1983-09-14 → 1984-01-24
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £26,990,000 | £25,950,000 | |
| Operating profit | £1,530,000 | £1,279,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,511,000 | £2,089,000 | |
| Net profit | £2,378,000 | £1,772,000 | |
| Cash | £16,652,000 | £13,032,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £28,500,000 | £28,766,000 | |
| Net assets | £30,267,000 | £32,275,000 | |
| Equity | £30,267,000 | £32,275,000 | |
| Average employees | 124 | 124 | |
| Wages | £3,972,000 | £4,801,000 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 5.7% | 4.9% | |
| Net margin | 8.8% | 6.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 5.4% | 4.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 9.0% | 8.5% | |
| Current ratio | 6.37x | 5.00x | |
| Interest cover | 1.70x | 1.34x |
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
- UHY Hacker Young
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The company has considerable financial resources along with a diversified offer and customer base and, as a consequence, the directors believe that the company is well placed to manage its business risks successfully and harness opportunities in the current uncertain economic climate and will continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The annual financial statements of the company have therefore appropriately been prepared on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- SWAN MILL PAPER COMPANY LIMITED · parent
- Penny Kennedy Limited 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BYK, David Charles | Director | 1997-07-01 | Oct 1967 | British |
| ROGERS, Graham | Director | 2009-05-05 | Dec 1968 | British |
| WORTON, Tom Aiden | Director | 2006-04-06 | Feb 1965 | British |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| REEMAN, Adrian Kenneth | Secretary | — | 2013-02-04 |
| BARBER, Anthony Peter | Director | — | 2011-06-30 |
| BRYAN, James | Director | 2005-05-01 | 2021-06-30 |
| BYK, Eva Judit | Director | — | 2012-01-13 |
| BYK, Peter Henry Julian | Director | — | 2000-07-11 |
| COLE, Raymond | Director | — | 2002-03-31 |
| HAYWARD, Brian David | Director | 2000-09-01 | 2005-08-01 |
| NEWTON, Ian Roy | Director | 2006-04-06 | 2011-02-25 |
| PALMER, Richard Bertram | Director | — | 2005-02-28 |
| PASTON, Margaret Rosemary | Director | 1997-01-01 | 2000-07-07 |
| PEERBHOY, Ali Nawaz | Director | 2002-01-01 | 2009-02-06 |
| PRICE, Maurice James | Director | 1996-01-01 | 1997-11-21 |
| SANDERSON, Ralph Martin | Director | 2005-05-01 | 2016-11-11 |
| SIMONS, Leonard Jack | Director | — | 2003-03-31 |
| VOWLES, Peter | Director | — | 1992-08-20 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swan Mill (Holdings) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 144 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-01-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-01-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-12-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-07-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-03-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-01-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-01-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-01-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2018-09-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2018-01-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2017-12-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
-3.9%
£26,990,000 £25,950,000
-
Cash
-21.7%
£16,652,000 £13,032,000
-
Net assets
+6.6%
£30,267,000 £32,275,000
-
Employees
0%
124 124
-
Operating profit
-16.4%
£1,530,000 £1,279,000
-
Profit before tax
-16.8%
£2,511,000 £2,089,000
-
Wages
+20.9%
£3,972,000 £4,801,000
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