QUEST 4 LIMITED — The Accounts

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Next accounts due

2026-09-30 (in 4mo)

Last filed for 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-12-17 (in 7mo)

Last made up 2025-12-03

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£2M

+18.1% highest in 6 filed years

Net assets

£6M

+2.5% highest in 6 filed years

Employees

+1.6% vs 2023

Profit before tax

£613K

-22.4% lowest in 6 filed years

Name history

Renamed 1 time since incorporation

QUEST 4 LIMITED 1992-04-10 → present
FARMRED LIMITED 1985-11-01 → 1992-04-10

Net assets

7-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median

QUEST 4 LIMITED·Consumer Discretionary median · n=5592

Accounts

7-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31

Metric	2019-12-31	2020-12-31	2021-12-31	2022-01-01	2022-12-31	2023-12-31	2024-12-31
Turnover	£10,797,031	£10,640,565	£12,804,240	—	£16,076,913	£15,126,685	£15,795,689
Operating profit	£1,007,452	—	£1,728,359	—	£1,446,255	£905,659	£649,424
Profit before tax	£996,251	£1,533,680	£1,702,496	—	£1,415,908	£790,551	£613,406
Net profit	£790,238	—	£1,354,906	—	—	£586,687	£446,128
Cash	£1,042,775	£1,340,836	£1,074,277	—	£972,487	£1,527,755	£1,803,528
Total assets less current liabilities	£5,212,068	£5,586,630	£6,335,468	—	£6,832,168	£6,580,982	£6,528,454
Net assets	£4,852,270	£4,899,762	£5,654,668	—	£5,756,324	£5,743,011	£5,889,139
Equity	£4,852,270	—	£5,654,668	—	£5,756,324	£5,743,011	£5,889,139
Average employees	55	55	62	—	68	64	65
Wages	£1,469,908	£1,593,454	£1,949,216	—	£2,232,094	£2,248,194	£2,346,295

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	2019-12-31	2020-12-31	2021-12-31	2022-01-01	2022-12-31	2023-12-31	2024-12-31
Operating margin	9.3%	—	13.5%	—	9.0%	6.0%	4.1%
Net margin	7.3%	—	10.6%	—	—	3.9%	2.8%
Return on capital employed	19.3%	—	27.3%	—	21.2%	13.8%	9.9%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets)	—	—	—	—	—	33.8%	35.6%
Current ratio	—	—	—	—	—	3.48x	3.06x
Interest cover	83.82x	—	66.78x	—	47.25x	14.92x	11.46x

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: Kirk Newsholme
Audit opinion: Unqualified (clean)
Going concern: Affirmed
“The directors have prepared budgets and forecasts which show that the company can maintain a positive cash balance for a period of at least 12 months following approval of the financial statements.”

Significant events

“We managed to maintain a strong performance across the year despite supplier prices continuing to increase along with a difficult economic climate.”
“We managed to attract new customers thanks to the strengthening of our sales team.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

4 active · 8 resigned

Name	Role	Appointed	Born	Nationality
GORE-BROWNE, Luke	Director	2024-01-01	Mar 1994	British
PARKER, Emma Louise	Director	2019-06-10	Aug 1967	British
PARKER, Richard Jonathan	Director	1992-04-01	Sep 1966	British
PARKER, William	Director	2024-01-01	Jul 1996	British

Show 8 resigned officers

Name	Role	Appointed	Resigned
DEW, Roger Stanton	Secretary	—	2010-02-27
DEW, Hazel	Director	1993-11-26	1996-09-02
DEW, Roger Stanton	Director	—	2005-01-06
FERRABY, Ben	Director	2005-04-01	2011-12-16
JACOBS, Paul David	Director	2009-12-31	2024-09-02
SAMMON, Michael	Director	2021-01-11	2021-09-27
WARD, Michael Dennis	Director	—	2005-01-06
WARD, Sandra Doreen	Director	1993-11-26	2005-01-06

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name	Kind	Nature of control	Notified	Status
Parkrowe Group Limited	Corporate entity	Shares 75–100%	2021-12-03	Active
Mr Richard Jonathan Parker	Individual	Significant influence	2016-12-03	Ceased 2021-12-03

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 136 total filings

Date	Type	Category	Description
2025-12-19	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2025-06-23	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2024-12-03	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2024-09-02	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2024-05-02	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full	PDF
2024-03-28	CH01	officers	Change person director company with change date	PDF
2024-01-03	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2024-01-03	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2023-12-04	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2023-07-06	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2022-12-06	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2022-07-01	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full	PDF
2021-12-09	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2021-12-09	PSC07	persons-with-significant-control	Cessation of a person with significant control	PDF
2021-12-06	PSC02	persons-with-significant-control	Notification of a person with significant control	PDF
2021-09-27	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2021-07-01	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full	PDF
2021-01-13	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2020-12-03	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2020-08-25	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

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

+4.4%

£15,126,685 £15,795,689
Cash

+18.1%

£1,527,755 £1,803,528

highest in 6 filed years
Net assets

+2.5%

£5,743,011 £5,889,139

highest in 6 filed years
Employees

+1.6%

64 65
Operating profit

-28.3%

£905,659 £649,424

lowest in 5 filed years
Profit before tax

-22.4%

£790,551 £613,406

lowest in 6 filed years
Wages

+4.4%

£2,248,194 £2,346,295

highest in 6 filed years

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

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