DDW COLOURS UK LTD.
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-22 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-08
Watchouts
Cash
£4M
-37.7% vs 2023
Net assets
£12M
+2.5% vs 2023
Employees
33
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£415K
+3,390.4% 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
- DDW COLOURS UK LTD. 2019-10-01 → present
- PHYTONE LIMITED 1989-02-10 → 2019-10-01
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £9,587,396 | £9,265,800 | |
| Operating profit | £22,707 | £420,645 | |
| Profit before tax | £11,887 | £414,898 | |
| Net profit | £10,746 | £288,869 | |
| Cash | £6,368,881 | £3,966,263 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £11,744,796 | £12,064,240 | |
| Net assets | £11,605,679 | £11,894,548 | |
| Equity | £11,605,679 | £11,894,548 | |
| Average employees | 33 | 33 | |
| Wages | £1,396,962 | £1,440,586 |
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 | 0.2% | 4.5% | |
| Net margin | 0.1% | 3.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 0.2% | 3.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 15.3% | 10.4% | |
| Current ratio | 6.23x | 9.87x | |
| Interest cover | 2.10x | 64.86x |
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
- Forvis Mazars
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the director's use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Significant events
- “On 11 March 2025, as part of a group restructure, the company was acquired directly by Givaudan S.A, a company incorporated in Switzerland.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 22 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KING, Michael David | Director | 2024-01-16 | Feb 1975 | American |
| MESSENGER, Ian James | Director | 2022-10-06 | Mar 1968 | British |
Show 22 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DE GENNARO, Janette | Secretary | 2013-11-01 | 2019-06-28 |
| KEVILL, Andrew Edward | Secretary | 1998-11-26 | 2012-06-13 |
| KEVILL, Patricia | Secretary | — | 1998-11-26 |
| BAST, Bryan | Director | 2012-12-17 | 2015-02-24 |
| DECLEENE, James | Director | 2014-04-08 | 2019-06-28 |
| HAMPTON, Anne Nixon | Director | 2019-06-28 | 2022-10-06 |
| HENRY, Barbara Elizabeth | Director | — | 2012-06-13 |
| HENRY, Bruce Stewart | Director | — | 2012-06-13 |
| HENRY, Joseph Owen | Director | 2010-12-10 | 2012-06-13 |
| HENRY, Rose Llinos | Director | 2010-12-10 | 2012-06-13 |
| HENRY, Thomas Rhys | Director | 2010-12-10 | 2012-06-13 |
| KEVILL, Andrew Edward | Director | — | 2012-06-13 |
| KEVILL, Patricia | Director | — | 2008-03-07 |
| KNEWSTUBB, Conrad John | Director | — | 2002-12-31 |
| NIXON, Edith Houghton | Director | 2019-06-28 | 2022-10-06 |
| NIXON, Theodore Halstead | Director | 2019-06-28 | 2022-10-06 |
| NORRIS, Eric Walton | Director | 2015-01-05 | 2017-10-31 |
| PARMAR, Pradeep | Director | 2022-10-06 | 2024-01-16 |
| PATTISON, Joseph Eliot | Director | 2012-06-13 | 2017-11-01 |
| PERRY, Richard | Director | — | 2009-09-30 |
| SMITH, Michael Patrick | Director | 2012-06-13 | 2014-12-01 |
| WIJEYERATNE, Gerard Ralph | Director | 2012-06-13 | 2014-04-08 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Givaudan S.A | Corporate entity | Significant influence | 2025-03-11 | Active |
| Ms Edith Nixon | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2019-07-01 | Ceased 2022-10-06 |
| Mr Theodore Nixon | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2019-07-01 | Ceased 2022-10-06 |
| N&H Holding Uk Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-03-11 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 156 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-08 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-06-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-06-08 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-09-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-11 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2022-10-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-10-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-10-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-10-11 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-10-11 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-09-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
-3.4%
£9,587,396 £9,265,800
-
Cash
-37.7%
£6,368,881 £3,966,263
-
Net assets
+2.5%
£11,605,679 £11,894,548
-
Employees
0%
33 33
-
Operating profit
+1,752.5%
£22,707 £420,645
-
Profit before tax
+3,390.4%
£11,887 £414,898
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Wages
+3.1%
£1,396,962 £1,440,586
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