ZF LEMFORDER UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-10 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-26
Watchouts
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£52M
+21.9% vs 2023
Employees
148
-0.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£4M
-40.4% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Name history
Renamed 3 times since incorporation
- ZF LEMFORDER UK LIMITED 2000-03-17 → present
- LEMFORDER UK LIMITED 1997-03-21 → 2000-03-17
- SPECIAL PRODUCTS LEMFORDER LIMITED 1989-06-06 → 1997-03-21
- SPL - SPECIAL PRODUCTS LEMFORDER LIMITED 1989-04-10 → 1989-06-06
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £86,691,000 | £77,562,000 | |
| Operating profit | £6,428,000 | £2,644,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £7,096,000 | £4,226,000 | |
| Net profit | £6,225,000 | £12,663,000 | |
| Cash | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £42,974,000 | £47,505,000 | |
| Net assets | £42,846,000 | £52,229,000 | |
| Equity | £42,846,000 | £52,229,000 | |
| Average employees | 149 | 148 | |
| Wages | £7,688,000 | £7,754,000 |
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 | 7.4% | 3.4% | |
| Net margin | 7.2% | 16.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 15.0% | 5.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 50.2% | 14.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.83x | 4.04x | |
| Interest cover | 44.64x | 20.18x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After preparation of cash flow forecasts covering the period of twelve months to 30 September 2026, the operation is forecast to generate cashflows of £4.1m. After allowing for the adverse operational impacts, the directors are satisfied that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”
Group structure
- ZF LEMFORDER UK LIMITED · parent
- ZF Chassis Modules (Solihull) Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The company became a single manufacturing site organisation due to the divestment of the Solihull facility and chassis modules trade was sold to ZF Chassis Modules (Solihull) Limited on 1 February 2024 for consideration of £15,120,000.”
- “On 12 April, the company increased its shareholding in its subsidiary by purchasing 1,999,998 ordinary shares at a nominal value of £1 per share. It increased its shareholding to £2,000,000.”
- “The company transferred its shareholding in ZF Chassis Modules (Solihull) Limited to ZF Chassis Modules Gmbh in May 2024 for £1,966,845.”
- “On 17 September 2025, the directors proposed to recommend the payment of a final dividend for 2024 payable in September 2025 of £8,000,000 amounting to £1.14 per share (2023: £0.85 per share).”
- “In September 2022, the Wabco Automotive UK Pension Scheme merged with the ZF UK Pension Plan resulting in a dilution of the schemes assets. This has been accounted for as a distribution in specie.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 24 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAULDRIDGE, Philip Andrew | Secretary | 2008-07-04 | — | British |
| BATTERBEE, Stephen Mark | Director | 2024-05-01 | Mar 1967 | British |
| MAULDRIDGE, Philip Andrew | Director | 2008-07-04 | Aug 1969 | British |
Show 24 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWMAN, Colin James | Secretary | — | 2008-07-04 |
| ARAUJO MATE, Carlos | Director | 2005-01-01 | 2008-10-13 |
| ARMBRUSTER, Ludwig Bernhard | Director | 2015-11-12 | 2024-05-01 |
| BALLMEIER, Paul Otto | Director | — | 1998-03-25 |
| BUCKERMANN, Peter | Director | 2008-10-13 | 2015-11-12 |
| BUHL, Reinhard Bernhard | Director | 2003-10-20 | 2008-10-13 |
| CHELL, Adrian Liam | Director | 2017-04-10 | 2024-05-01 |
| EVANS, James | Director | — | 2006-03-09 |
| GENTNER, Arnaud Robert Eugene | Director | 2024-05-01 | 2025-10-06 |
| HABERSACK, Bernd | Director | — | 2004-12-31 |
| HAEDGE, Christian | Director | 2011-10-19 | 2021-02-22 |
| KIBBLE, Timothy Paul | Director | 2017-04-10 | 2025-07-24 |
| KLEINER, Franz, Dr | Director | 2010-10-06 | 2011-07-31 |
| NEWMAN, Colin James | Director | 2001-10-09 | 2008-07-04 |
| PETZOLDT, Carl Albert | Director | 1996-10-21 | 2007-10-02 |
| PROTE, Reinhard | Director | 2008-10-13 | 2011-07-30 |
| REICHELT, Steffen | Director | 2021-03-23 | 2025-10-06 |
| REMME, Guido Hermann Willi | Director | 2020-08-21 | 2021-03-23 |
| SAUER, Konstantin, Dr | Director | 2007-10-02 | 2010-04-30 |
| SCHULTHEIS, Ulrich | Director | 2001-01-01 | 2003-04-23 |
| SOMERFIELD, Terence | Director | 2001-10-09 | 2017-03-31 |
| STAEDTLER, Fredrik | Director | 2011-10-19 | 2012-03-22 |
| WRENBECK, Bruce Robert | Director | 2012-03-22 | 2020-05-19 |
| ZEIDLER, Ernst Georg Kurt | Director | 1998-04-01 | 2000-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midwest Lemforder Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 149 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-05 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-02-22 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-10-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-10-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-05-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-03-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 3
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
-
Turnover
-10.5%
£86,691,000 £77,562,000
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
+21.9%
£42,846,000 £52,229,000
-
Employees
-0.7%
149 148
-
Operating profit
-58.9%
£6,428,000 £2,644,000
-
Profit before tax
-40.4%
£7,096,000 £4,226,000
-
Wages
+0.9%
£7,688,000 £7,754,000
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