COMPASS CONTRACT SERVICES (U.K.) LIMITED

1. COMPASS CONTRACT SERVICES (U.K.) LIMITED 1988-01-06 → present
2. CENTRALBOSS LIMITED 1987-03-25 → 1988-01-06

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 101 Reduced Disclosure Framework

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

KPMG LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Notwithstanding net current liabilities of £1,246m (2023: £1,303m) as at 30 September 2024, the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which the directors consider to be appropriate for the following reasons: The Company is a component of the Compass Group PLC, one of the world's largest foodservice company. The company meets its day to day working capital requirements from operational cash flows and intercompany loan and trading balances with the group headed by Compass Group PLC. Compass Group PLC has prepared a base case financial forecasts covering the Compass UK group companics ("the UK Group"), including the Company for at least 12 months from the date these accounts are approved. These forecasts indicate that the UK Group will have sufficient funds available under its current resources and committed facilities to continue to meets its liabilities as they fall due. The Company has received a letter of support from Compass Group PLC indicating that it intends to provide such funds as are necessary to trade. As with any company placing reliance on other group entities for financial support, the directors acknowledge that there can be no certainty that this support will continue although, at the date of approval of these financial statements, they have no reason to believe that it will not do so. Consequently, the directors of the Company are confident that the Company will have sufficient funds to continue to meets its liabilities as they fall due for the foreseeable future being a period of at least 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements and therefore have prepared these financial statements on the going concern basis.”

Group structure

1. COMPASS CONTRACT SERVICES (U.K.) LIMITED · parent
   1. Bateman Healthcare Services Limited 100% · England and Wales · Dormant
   2. Chartwells Hounslow (Feeding Futures) Limited 100% · England and Wales · Caterers
   3. Compass Offshore Catering Limited 99% · United Kingdom · Dormant
   4. Compass Services Limited 100% · England and Wales · Dormant
   5. Compass Services (UK) Limited 100% · England and Wales · Contract caterers
   6. Cygnet Foods Holding Limited 100% · England and Wales · Contract caterers
   7. Eurest Offshore Support Services Limited 100% · England and Wales · Dormant
   8. Fairfield Catering Company Limited 100% · England and Wales · Dormant
   9. Hamard Group Limited 100% · England and Wales · Dormant
   10. Leisure Support Services Limited 100% · England and Wales · Dormant
   11. Meal Service Company Limited 100% · England and Wales · Dormant
   12. Pennine Services Limited 100% · England and Wales · Dormant
   13. PPP-Infrastructure Management Limited 100% · England and Wales · Business Support Services
   14. The Bateman Catering Organization Limited 100% · England and Wales · Dormant
   15. Security Office Cleaners Limited 50% · England and Wales · Dormant
   16. Hamard Catering Management Services Limited 100% · England and Wales · Dormant
   17. Hospital Hygiene Services Limited 100% · England and Wales · Dormant

Significant events

• “The company's turnover totalled £2,403 million (2023: £2,259 million), an increase of 6%. The company's operating profit margin was 4.7% (2023: loss of 0.4%) resulting in an operating profit of £112.6 million (2023: profit of £9.5 million).”
• “On the 1 December 2023, there was a transfer of trade and assets from Rocket Food Limited, a fellow subsidiary of Compass Group UK and Ireland Limited, to the company.”

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

Filings

11

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

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

  +6.4%

  £2,259,463,000 → £2,403,390,000

• Cash

  +1%

  £7,978,000 → £8,055,000

• Net assets

  +18.7%

  £355,620,000 → £422,163,000

• Employees

  -3.1%

  52,374 → 50,767

• Operating profit

  +1,081%

  £9,540,000 → £112,663,000

• Profit before tax

  +249.7%

  -£76,155,000 → £113,985,000

• Wages

  +5.5%

  £1,043,506,000 → £1,100,499,000

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