CHARACTER OPTIONS LIMITED

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  1 PSC ceased in last 24 months

  Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.

1. CHARACTER OPTIONS LIMITED 2001-01-03 → present
2. TOY OPTIONS LIMITED 1991-05-03 → 2001-01-03
3. WISE TREATMENT LTD. 1991-03-01 → 1991-05-03

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

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Lubbock Fine LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Demand for the company's products remains ongoing. The company has substantial cash balances, as well as access to extensive finance facilities and support from group companies, should it be necessary. The Directors, after reviewing the company's operating budgets, investment plans and financing arrangements, consider that the company has sufficient financing available at the date of approval of this report. Accordingly, the Directors are satisfied that it is appropriate to adopt the going concern basis in preparing these financial statements.”

Significant events

• “From 1 April 2022, a tax has been imposed on plastic packaging on imports to the UK. The company continues to plan and implement its response and, to the extent that it can be achieved, the company will endeavour to reduce new plastics in packaging to below the tax threshold.”

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

Filings

9

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  -16.6%

  £54,043,516 → £45,073,537

• Cash

  +55.1%

  £2,314,774 → £3,590,158

• Net assets

  -65.6%

  £2,780,478 → £956,690

• Employees

  0%

  111 → 111

• Operating profit

  -160.6%

  -£910,924 → -£2,373,903

• Profit before tax

  -140.8%

  -£1,015,762 → -£2,446,299

• Wages

  +12.7%

  £4,899,808 → £5,522,143

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