METCALFE PLANT HIRE LIMITED

1. METCALFE PLANT HIRE LIMITED 1998-08-14 → present
2. METCALFE (PLANT & TOOL HIRE) LIMITED 1996-05-30 → 1998-08-14
3. A. METCALFE (PLANT HIRE) LIMITED 1987-04-06 → 1996-05-30
4. OTHERMANUAL LIMITED 1987-01-26 → 1987-04-06

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

DJH Audit Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual financial statements.”

Significant events

• “Over the course of this accounting period the Company has experienced economic challenges and pressures as other businesses associated directly or indirectly with the construction industry.”
• “Despite the challenging market conditions the directors expect the general level of activity to remain broadly similar to 2024 in the forthcoming year, thereafter with the expectation that national infrastructure projects in the operating area will commence.”

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

Filings

10

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +15.9%

  £18,475,920 → £21,411,488

• Cash

  +86.8%

  £224,403 → £419,112

• Net assets

  -2%

  £9,189,961 → £9,007,973

• Employees

  -4.9%

  102 → 97

• Operating profit

  -22.7%

  £985,721 → £761,472

• Profit before tax

  -56.5%

  £636,713 → £276,759

• Wages

  +21.9%

  £4,013,425 → £4,892,901

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