ROBA METALS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-29 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£288K
-26.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£7M
+8.2% vs 2023
Employees
34
+6.3% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£810K
+55% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 3 times since incorporation
- ROBA METALS LIMITED 1991-09-09 → present
- ROBA STEEL METALS & ALLOYS LIMITED 1987-11-05 → 1991-09-09
- ROBA STEEL METALS AND ALLOYS LIMITED 1987-02-23 → 1987-11-05
- CUSTOMWELCOME LIMITED 1987-01-19 → 1987-02-23
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £41,884,279 | £59,021,117 | |
| Operating profit | £721,314 | £1,063,605 | |
| Profit before tax | £522,367 | £809,770 | |
| Net profit | £361,140 | £560,603 | |
| Cash | £391,634 | £288,343 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,037,380 | £7,687,969 | |
| Net assets | £6,836,567 | £7,397,170 | |
| Equity | £6,836,567 | £7,397,170 | |
| Average employees | 32 | 34 | |
| Wages | £1,732,199 | £1,906,716 |
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 | 1.7% | 1.8% | |
| Net margin | 0.9% | 0.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 10.2% | 13.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 46.8% | 57.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.71x | 1.49x | |
| Interest cover | 3.52x | 4.15x |
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
- Curo Professional Services Ltd, Statutory Auditors
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis on the grounds that the directors believe that there is sufficient funding in place to support the business for the next twelve months from the date of approval of the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “The strong result of 2024 has continued in the first months of 2025. We remain cautious, with the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, geopolitical tensions and other world events outside the industry having an ongoing impact on our business.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COHN, Paul Steven | Director | 1994-01-01 | Jul 1962 | Dutch |
| HUGHES, David Norman | Director | 2023-01-01 | May 1968 | British |
| VAN UNEN, Rutger Thomas | Director | 2023-01-01 | Mar 1983 | Dutch |
| WHITE, Jake | Director | 2022-02-24 | Aug 1981 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANDFORD, Timothy Richard | Secretary | 2003-08-05 | 2023-02-01 |
| UGGERLOESE, Peter Henrik, Company Secretary | Secretary | — | 1993-07-31 |
| YATES, Philip Albert Roger | Secretary | 1993-08-02 | 2003-08-04 |
| BORGGREVE, Simon Frederik | Director | — | 1994-01-01 |
| COHN, Stefan Dirk Gert | Director | — | 1994-01-01 |
| RICHHEIMER, Brent | Director | — | 2008-12-31 |
| SANDFORD, Timothy Richard | Director | 1997-01-22 | 2022-02-24 |
| UGGERLOESE, Peter Henrik, Company Secretary | Director | — | 1993-07-31 |
| VAN GEERTERUY, Roger Gaston Marie | Director | — | 2023-01-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roba Holding Bv | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 128 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-02-13 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-12-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-02-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-02-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-12-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-05-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-01-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-06-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-12-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-09-18 | 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+40.9%
£41,884,279 £59,021,117
-
Cash
-26.4%
£391,634 £288,343
-
Net assets
+8.2%
£6,836,567 £7,397,170
-
Employees
+6.3%
32 34
-
Operating profit
+47.5%
£721,314 £1,063,605
-
Profit before tax
+55%
£522,367 £809,770
-
Wages
+10.1%
£1,732,199 £1,906,716
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