BRIGGS OF BURTON PLC
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-13 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-05-30
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
+91.6% vs 2023
Net assets
£4M
-43.7% vs 2023
Employees
267
-0.4% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£3M
-118.4% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- BRIGGS OF BURTON PLC 1990-11-12 → present
- S BRIGGS & CO. LIMITED 1987-05-07 → 1990-11-12
- TRIPFIT LIMITED 1986-11-27 → 1987-05-07
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £75,501,000 | £51,436,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£1,609,000 | -£8,623,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£1,509,000 | -£3,296,000 | |
| Net profit | -£1,509,000 | -£3,296,000 | |
| Cash | £1,653,000 | £3,167,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £10,650,000 | £10,567,000 | |
| Net assets | £7,962,000 | £4,480,000 | |
| Equity | £7,962,000 | £4,480,000 | |
| Average employees | 268 | 267 | |
| Wages | £17,860,000 | £21,354,000 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -2.1% | -16.8% | |
| Net margin | -2.0% | -6.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | -15.1% | -81.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 88.0% | 92.4% | |
| Current ratio | 0.98x | 0.85x | |
| Interest cover | -2.91x | -9.54x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The company operates in day-to-day working capital requirements through its cash reserves, banking facilities and ability to access short term funding from other group companies. The current economic conditions continue to create uncertainty over the level of demand for the company's products and services.”
Group structure
- BRIGGS OF BURTON PLC · parent
- Briggs of Burton Inc 100%
- McMillan (Coppersmiths & Fabricators) Limited 100%
- Giusti Limited 100%
- Burnett & Rolfe (Burton) Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Operating loss for the year was £8.6M (2023: loss £1.6M), this mainly reflects the deterioration in the company's Mexican Projects which contributed around 20% of revenue and 75% of the reported loss. Cash outflow comprises the operating loss and movement in net assets.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 19 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUXTON, Robert John | Director | 2014-04-09 | Jun 1971 | British |
| CROMBIE, George Matthew | Director | 2016-11-30 | Apr 1982 | British |
| HEPP, Gunnar Benno | Director | 2025-06-16 | Jun 1971 | German |
| LEACH, Kevin John | Director | 2021-02-19 | Mar 1966 | British |
Show 19 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEDDOE, Nathan | Secretary | 2017-02-28 | 2025-07-11 |
| GAMAGE, Alastair Richard | Secretary | 1995-04-03 | 2002-11-30 |
| HIBBERT, David Anthony | Secretary | 2002-12-01 | 2013-05-13 |
| MASON, Rona Ethel | Secretary | — | 1995-04-03 |
| STITCHMAN, John Adam | Secretary | 2013-05-13 | 2017-02-28 |
| ANDREWS, John Martin Hough, Dr | Director | — | 2012-03-31 |
| ATKINSON, Robert Charles | Director | — | 1993-12-31 |
| BATTERSBY, John Leslie | Director | — | 1993-01-29 |
| BEDDOE, Nathan | Director | 2018-01-03 | 2025-07-11 |
| CLARKSON, Arthur Alan | Director | — | 1993-10-14 |
| CURE, Gareth Christopher Graham | Director | 2008-11-01 | 2017-06-02 |
| EMERY, Fred | Director | — | 2016-06-03 |
| GAMAGE, Alastair Richard | Director | 1995-04-03 | 2002-11-30 |
| MASON, Rona Ethel | Director | — | 1995-01-04 |
| MCFARLANE, Ian Kenneth | Director | — | 2016-11-30 |
| POYNTON, Keith | Director | 2008-03-04 | 2014-04-07 |
| PROUD, Neil James, Mr. | Director | 2007-09-03 | 2009-06-22 |
| STITCHMAN, John Adam | Director | 2013-09-17 | 2016-11-30 |
| WAGSTAFF, Anthony George | Director | 2016-11-30 | 2020-01-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cimc Enric Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Significant influence | 2016-06-03 | Active |
| Briggs Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2022-12-21 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 181 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-14 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-08-05 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-08-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-05 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-03-24 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-08-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-03-03 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2021-02-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-09-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-09-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
-31.9%
£75,501,000 £51,436,000
-
Cash
+91.6%
£1,653,000 £3,167,000
-
Net assets
-43.7%
£7,962,000 £4,480,000
-
Employees
-0.4%
268 267
-
Operating profit
-435.9%
-£1,609,000 -£8,623,000
-
Profit before tax
-118.4%
-£1,509,000 -£3,296,000
-
Wages
+19.6%
£17,860,000 £21,354,000
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