WEDDEL SWIFT DISTRIBUTION LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-09-27
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-17 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-03
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£194K
+37.6% vs 2023
Net assets
£16M
+12.4% vs 2023
Employees
205
-4.2% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£2M
+56.7% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 4 times since incorporation
- WEDDEL SWIFT DISTRIBUTION LIMITED 2000-10-02 → present
- WEDDEL SWIFT LIMITED 1987-12-02 → 2000-10-02
- SWIFT MEATS LIMITED 1986-12-12 → 1987-12-02
- SWIFT AND COMPANY LIMITED 1985-09-09 → 1986-12-12
- NILEWAY LIMITED 1984-06-19 → 1985-09-09
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-09-27
| Metric | Trend | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £122,229,000 | £119,476,000 | |
| Operating profit | £1,178,000 | £2,106,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,102,000 | £1,727,000 | |
| Net profit | £1,204,000 | £1,455,000 | |
| Cash | £141,000 | £194,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £14,308,000 | £15,826,000 | |
| Net assets | £13,890,000 | £15,619,000 | |
| Equity | £13,890,000 | £15,619,000 | |
| Average employees | 214 | 205 | |
| Wages | £6,880,000 | £6,593,000 |
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 | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.0% | 1.8% | |
| Net margin | 1.0% | 1.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 8.2% | 13.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 57.1% | 56.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.61x | 1.63x | |
| Interest cover | 15.50x | 5.56x |
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
“Based on the groups current trading performance, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the group and the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, being a period of no less than twelve months after the date of approval of these financial statements.”
Significant events
- “On 11 July 2025, The Board of Directors resolved that the company would pay a final dividend of £2.75 per share, amounting to £5.5 million, in respect of the period ended 27 September 2024. This has not been recognised as a liability in these financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 17 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RANDALL, Tony | Secretary | 2023-11-30 | — | — |
| RANDALL, Ronald Leslie | Director | 1995-09-21 | May 1947 | British |
| RANDALL, Tony | Director | 2022-11-30 | Dec 1975 | British |
Show 17 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRADY, David Richard | Secretary | 1995-09-21 | 2023-11-30 |
| CUTHBERT, John Richard | Secretary | — | 1995-09-21 |
| BAIRD, Ceanan Donald | Director | 1993-01-25 | 1995-09-21 |
| BLAIR, Reginald Eric | Director | — | 1992-11-09 |
| BRADY, David Richard | Director | 1995-09-21 | 2022-11-30 |
| FIELD, Richard John, Mr. | Director | 2015-04-30 | 2017-11-30 |
| FIELD, Richard John, Mr. | Director | 2001-06-29 | 2012-03-31 |
| FIRTH, Peter | Director | — | 2003-11-13 |
| MACINNES, Andrew Ronald Evelyn | Director | 1993-01-25 | 1995-09-21 |
| MITCHELL, Edward Allen | Director | 1993-01-25 | 1994-04-30 |
| PARKER, William Joseph | Director | 1995-09-21 | 2015-02-06 |
| PATEL, Pragnesh | Director | 2017-06-28 | 2019-05-31 |
| ROSE, Jonathan Andrew William | Director | — | 1995-09-21 |
| RUSTON, John Bryan | Director | — | 1993-01-29 |
| SHEPHERD, Robert John | Director | — | 1993-01-18 |
| SHOULER, George Edward | Director | 1995-09-21 | 1999-04-28 |
| STEER, Jeffrey George | Director | — | 1993-12-06 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Randall Parker Food Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 204 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-22 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-10-21 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-10-17 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-08-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-14 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-12-14 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-12-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-03-15 | PSC09 | persons-with-significant-control | Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2021-10-27 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2021-10-27 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2021-10-27 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2021-10-26 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-09-27 vs 2023-09-30
-
Turnover
-2.3%
£122,229,000 £119,476,000
-
Cash
+37.6%
£141,000 £194,000
-
Net assets
+12.4%
£13,890,000 £15,619,000
-
Employees
-4.2%
214 205
-
Operating profit
+78.8%
£1,178,000 £2,106,000
-
Profit before tax
+56.7%
£1,102,000 £1,727,000
-
Wages
-4.2%
£6,880,000 £6,593,000
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