CARRYLIFT MATERIALS HANDLING LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-06 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-22
Watchouts
Cash
£416K
-56.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£16M
+16.1% vs 2023
Employees
154
-1.3% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£3M
+1.3% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- CARRYLIFT MATERIALS HANDLING LIMITED 1988-03-29 → present
- RAPID 5259 LIMITED 1988-02-16 → 1988-03-29
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 | £25,746,423 | £26,157,513 | |
| Operating profit | £3,280,656 | £3,398,023 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,938,703 | £2,976,768 | |
| Net profit | £2,101,752 | £2,255,787 | |
| Cash | £955,364 | £415,879 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £17,900,028 | £18,863,459 | |
| Net assets | £14,044,503 | £16,300,290 | |
| Equity | £14,044,503 | £16,300,290 | |
| Average employees | 156 | 154 | |
| Wages | £6,279,923 | £6,079,348 |
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 | 12.7% | 13.0% | |
| Net margin | 8.2% | 8.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 18.3% | 18.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 69.0% | 62.9% | |
| Current ratio | 0.76x | 0.80x | |
| Interest cover | 9.16x | 7.86x |
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
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“During 2024 Carrylift Materials Handling Limited has continued to trade profitably and its Directors are committed to ensuring employees' safety and wellbeing whilst also continuing to meet customer demand. The cash position and order book are both healthy, with a broad spectrum of customers this will ensure profit and cash flows well into the future. The core brands continue to grow and improve each year and relationships with these manufacturers is excellent. The Directors have a good 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
- “At 31 December 2024 the Company was party to an asset finance agreement whereby upon request of the lender, the Company would repurchase specified fork lift trucks at the end of, or upon termination of, the lease between the lender, the Company and specified third parties, at a specified price. The total contingent liability is estimated by management to be £2,803,460 (2023 - £3,700,252).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CATTELL, Nicholas James | Director | 2015-06-16 | Nov 1974 | British |
| SCOTT, Stephen James | Director | 2016-10-28 | Feb 1978 | British |
| SMYTH, Eamonn Paul | Director | 2010-03-17 | Jun 1966 | United Kingdom |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLACK, Gary | Secretary | 2010-02-19 | 2012-06-18 |
| ROUTLEDGE, Caroline Jean | Secretary | — | 2010-02-19 |
| GRAHAM, David Barry | Director | — | 1997-03-13 |
| HALL, Raymond Herbert | Director | — | 2010-02-19 |
| ROBINSON, Geoffrey | Director | 2010-02-19 | 2015-11-04 |
| ROUTLEDGE, Caroline Jean | Director | — | 2015-05-19 |
| ROUTLEDGE, John Joseph | Director | — | 2015-05-19 |
| ROUTLEDGE, Phillip Stephen | Director | — | 2015-05-19 |
| ROUTLEDGE, Steven John | Director | 2010-03-17 | 2017-05-31 |
| SURRIDGE, Philip Duncan | Director | — | 1997-02-28 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Simon Sebastian Orange | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-02-24 |
| Carrylift Group (Holdings) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 221 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-26 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-07-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-02-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-02-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-02-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-02-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-02-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-02-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-02-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-14 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-07-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-12-29 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2021-08-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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
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Turnover
+1.6%
£25,746,423 £26,157,513
-
Cash
-56.5%
£955,364 £415,879
-
Net assets
+16.1%
£14,044,503 £16,300,290
-
Employees
-1.3%
156 154
-
Operating profit
+3.6%
£3,280,656 £3,398,023
-
Profit before tax
+1.3%
£2,938,703 £2,976,768
-
Wages
-3.2%
£6,279,923 £6,079,348
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