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REACH PRINTING SERVICES LIMITED

#01979335 · Active · Incorporated 1986-01-17 (40y 4m) · Last filing 2025-12-09 (5mo ago)
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2026-09-30 (in 4mo)

Last filed for 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-09-29 (in 4mo)

Last made up 2025-09-15

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£10K

+11.1% vs 2023

Net assets

£8M

+758.4% vs 2023

Employees

377

-2.6% vs 2023

Profit before tax

£9M

+2,530.6% vs 2023

Name history

Renamed 5 times since incorporation

  1. REACH PRINTING SERVICES LIMITED 2018-05-04 → present
  2. TRINITY MIRROR PRINTING LIMITED 2004-11-16 → 2018-05-04
  3. MIRROR COLOUR PRINT LIMITED 1990-01-30 → 2004-11-16
  4. BRITISH NEWSPAPER PRINTING CORPORATION LIMITED 1987-10-22 → 1990-01-30
  5. BRITISH NEWSPAPER PRINTING CORPORATION PLC 1986-05-19 → 1987-10-22
  6. GRAPHICTOWN PLC 1986-01-17 → 1986-05-19

Accounts

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

Metric Trend 2023-12-312024-12-31
Turnover £122,702,000£101,017,000
Operating profit -£356,000£3,503,000
Profit before tax -£363,000£8,823,000
Net profit -£1,064,000£8,683,000
Cash £9,000£10,000
Total assets less current liabilities £328,000£9,038,000
Net assets -£1,153,000£7,591,000
Equity -£1,153,000£7,591,000
Average employees 387377
Wages £21,631,000£21,773,000

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 2023-12-312024-12-31
Operating margin -0.3%3.5%
Net margin -0.9%8.6%
Return on capital employed -108.5%38.8%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets) 100.7%95.4%
Current ratio 0.10x0.08x
Interest cover -50.86x291.92x

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
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“The directors therefore have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”

Group structure

  1. REACH PRINTING SERVICES LIMITED · parent
    1. Mirror Colour Print (London) Limited 100% · England and Wales
    2. Mirror Colour Print (North) Limited 90% · England and Wales
    3. Reach Printing Services (Oldham) Limited 100% · England and Wales
    4. Reach Printing Services (Teesside) Limited 100% · England and Wales
    5. Reach Printing Services (Watford) Limited 100% · England and Wales
    6. Trinity Mirror Printing (Cardiff) Limited 100% · England and Wales
    7. Trinity Mirror Printing (Liverpool) Limited 100% · England and Wales
    8. Trinity Mirror Printing (Newcastle) Limited 100% · England and Wales
    9. Anderston Quay Printers Limited 100% · Scotland
    10. Reach Printing Services (Saltire) Limited 100% · Scotland
    11. Trinity Mirror Printing (Blantyre) Limited 100% · Scotland
    12. Mirror Colour Print Services Limited 0% · England and Wales
    13. Mirror Colour Print Services (London) Limited 0% · England and Wales

Significant events

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

People

4 active · 28 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
REACH SECRETARIES LIMITED Corporate Secretary 2001-12-10 — —
FISHER, Darren Director 2023-02-14 May 1966 Australian,British
NORTH, Piers Michael Director 2025-03-31 Jan 1976 British
REACH DIRECTORS LIMITED Corporate Director 2001-12-10 — —
Show 28 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
STEPHENS, Henry Alan Secretary — 1992-11-06
VICKERS, Paul Andrew Secretary 1994-06-30 2001-12-10
SISEC LIMITED Corporate Nominee Secretary 1992-11-06 1994-06-30
ALLWOOD, Charles John Director 1993-10-21 2000-07-20
ANDERSON, John William Director 1997-08-26 2001-05-31
BARBER, Stephen David Director 1998-11-11 1999-09-30
BIRD, John Director 1993-03-24 1995-01-31
EASTOE, Roger William Director — 2000-09-13
ELLIS, Terence Dennis Director 1993-02-04 1993-06-15
EWING, Margaret Director 2000-07-20 2001-12-10
FOX, Simon Richard Director 2013-05-31 2019-08-16
FULLER, Simon Jeremy Ian Director 2019-03-01 2022-12-31
HOLLINSHEAD, Mark Thomas Director 2013-05-31 2014-12-12
MACLENNAN, Murdoch Director 1993-02-04 1995-01-02
MCDONALD, Ian Director — 1992-12-14
MULLEN, James Joseph Director 2019-08-16 2025-03-31
RIKLIN, Cornel Carl Director 1995-07-19 1999-12-03
RIMMER, Robert Director 1993-03-24 1997-05-13
ROE, Alan Brian Director — 1993-04-28
STARK, Francis Reilly Director 1993-09-07 1998-05-31
VAGHELA, Vijay Kumar Lakhman Meghji Director 2009-10-01 2019-06-30
VICKERS, Paul Andrew Director 2009-10-01 2014-11-17
VICKERS, Paul Andrew Director 1993-02-04 2001-12-10
WAIN, Allan Director 1997-08-26 1998-03-31
WALKER, Norman Michael Director 1995-07-19 2001-12-10
WAYMAN, Michael Andrew Director 1998-06-01 2001-12-10
WILSON, Charles Martin Director 1993-10-21 1998-01-15
YEUNG, Jeff Director — 1993-07-31

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Mgl2 Limited Corporate entity Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors 2016-04-06 Active

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 282 total filings

Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution

  • 2025-12-09 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
Date Type Category Description
2025-12-09 SH19 capital Capital statement capital company with date currency figure
2025-12-09 SH20 capital Legacy
2025-12-09 CAP-SS insolvency Legacy
2025-12-09 RESOLUTIONS resolution Resolution
2025-12-09 SH01 capital Capital allotment shares PDF
2025-09-15 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2025-08-12 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2025-04-01 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2025-04-01 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2024-09-24 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2024-09-10 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2023-09-18 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2023-07-15 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2023-02-17 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2023-01-09 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2022-09-28 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2022-09-23 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2022-03-15 PSC05 persons-with-significant-control Change to a person with significant control PDF
2021-09-30 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2021-09-15 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
7

last 12 months

Capital events
3

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
0

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

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

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