CARTE BLANCHE GREETINGS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-03-28 (in 10mo)
Last filed for 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-16
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
+583% vs 2024
Net assets
£8M
-25.1% vs 2024
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£3M
-584.3% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- CARTE BLANCHE GREETINGS LIMITED 1988-07-14 → present
- GOSCOPE LIMITED 1988-06-07 → 1988-07-14
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-06-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £18,431,908 | £19,131,449 | |
| Operating profit | -£162,330 | -£2,528,910 | |
| Profit before tax | -£399,153 | -£2,731,264 | |
| Net profit | -£61,002 | -£2,763,422 | |
| Cash | £180,363 | £1,231,946 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £11,344,214 | £8,651,908 | |
| Net assets | £11,027,214 | £8,263,792 | |
| Equity | — | — | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| Wages | — | — |
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 | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -0.9% | -13.2% | |
| Net margin | -0.3% | -14.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | -1.4% | -29.2% | |
| Current ratio | 2.42x | 2.38x | |
| Interest cover | -0.69x | -12.28x |
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
“The Board has concluded that the Invoice Discounting facility in place is sufficient to support the future anticipated performance of the business and do not believe any of the possible changes which could be caused by these scenarios occuring to present an issue to the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. Considering the sensitivities applied to the cashflow forecasts, there is a strong expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue to operate until at least 12 months from the approval of the financial statements and accordingly, the Board continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing these financial statements.”
Group structure
- CARTE BLANCHE GREETINGS LIMITED · parent
- Carte Blanche Limited 100%
- Gemini Toys Limited 100%
Significant events
- “In the second half of the financial year a product safety issue was identified with a limited number of cushions supplied to the Company by a single supplier which had been sold since the spring of 2023. This led to the Company instigating a voluntary product recall of these items following collaborative discussions with Trading Standards.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 20 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HAINES, Stephen William | Director | — | Oct 1962 | British |
| MARCHANT, Alister Robert | Director | 2003-08-06 | Aug 1966 | British |
| POERSCOUT-EDGERTON, Robert John | Director | 2017-06-01 | Feb 1978 | British |
| SPENCE, Duncan | Director | 1999-12-21 | Mar 1943 | British |
Show 20 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CODA, John | Secretary | 1999-12-21 | 2011-10-03 |
| DODD, William Douglass | Secretary | 2011-10-03 | 2016-01-01 |
| HAINES, Sandra | Secretary | — | 1999-12-21 |
| BLAKEMORE, Stephen Leonard | Director | 1999-10-01 | 2016-11-09 |
| BUNGARD, Michael Norman | Director | — | 1998-12-31 |
| CODA, John | Director | 1999-01-18 | 2011-10-03 |
| DOUGLAS, Ruth | Director | 2002-11-19 | 2004-11-17 |
| EDMONDSON, Richard David | Director | 2002-09-02 | 2012-05-14 |
| HAINES, Paul Derek Dean | Director | 2002-01-01 | 2013-04-30 |
| HAINES, Sandra | Director | — | 1999-12-21 |
| HORNER, Martin William | Director | 2012-12-24 | 2015-02-01 |
| KAVANAGH, Carole | Director | 2002-09-02 | 2012-12-31 |
| MACHIN, Nicola Jane | Director | 2012-12-24 | 2013-08-30 |
| MIDDLETON, Stuart | Director | 1992-12-05 | 1995-07-01 |
| MURPHY, Roger | Director | 2007-07-30 | 2011-10-03 |
| O'MAHONY, Gerard Patrick Luke | Director | 2016-01-01 | 2018-01-12 |
| PAYNE, Michael John | Director | — | 1991-07-31 |
| ROWE, George William Arthur | Director | 1995-07-01 | 1998-12-31 |
| WAKEFIELD, Ian Edward Gibbon | Director | 1995-07-01 | 2011-10-03 |
| WILLIS, John Anthony | Director | 2012-10-01 | 2016-11-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carte Blanche Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 185 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2020-10-02 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-13 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-06-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-24 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2024-10-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-27 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2024-06-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-09 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-06-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-07 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-11-04 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-10-25 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2022-06-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-13 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2022-03-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-06-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-05-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-10-02 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-06-30 vs 2024-06-30
-
Turnover
+3.8%
£18,431,908 £19,131,449
-
Cash
+583%
£180,363 £1,231,946
-
Net assets
-25.1%
£11,027,214 £8,263,792
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-1,457.9%
-£162,330 -£2,528,910
-
Profit before tax
-584.3%
-£399,153 -£2,731,264
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