FRICTION MARKETING COMPANY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-03 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-20
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
-9.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£22M
+2.2% vs 2023
Employees
84
-10.6% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£3M
-48.3% vs 2023
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 | £23,073,045 | £17,416,065 | |
| Operating profit | £5,416,364 | £2,785,310 | |
| Profit before tax | £5,423,107 | £2,802,960 | |
| Net profit | £4,213,585 | £2,376,988 | |
| Cash | £2,647,231 | £2,384,456 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £22,410,612 | £22,823,440 | |
| Net assets | £21,735,011 | £22,211,999 | |
| Equity | £21,735,011 | £22,211,999 | |
| Average employees | 94 | 84 | |
| Wages | £3,005,521 | £2,874,911 |
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 | 23.5% | 16.0% | |
| Net margin | 18.3% | 13.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 24.2% | 12.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 7.1% | 9.5% | |
| Current ratio | 21.58x | 11.71x | |
| Interest cover | 846.97x | 355.45x |
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
- MHA
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In preparing the financial statements, the Directors are responsible for assessing the Company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the Directors either intend to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.”
Significant events
- “During January 2024 the building that the Company operate from in Sutton in Ashfield was purchased.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAWRENCE, Craig | Secretary | 2019-01-07 | — | — |
| LAWRENCE, Craig | Director | 2015-06-18 | Dec 1973 | British |
| PICKFORD, Mark | Director | 2015-06-18 | Jun 1960 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLDEN, Robert | Secretary | 2007-07-31 | 2019-01-07 |
| NOWELL, Catherine | Secretary | 1996-08-01 | 2007-07-31 |
| NOWELL, Michael Leonard | Secretary | — | 1996-08-01 |
| HOLDEN, Robert | Director | 2007-01-01 | 2019-01-07 |
| MACKINTOSH, Donald Allan | Director | 1998-04-01 | 2019-01-07 |
| MACKINTOSH, Donald Allan | Director | — | 1996-08-01 |
| NOWELL, Michael Leonard | Director | — | 2007-07-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jinmyung Europe Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-05-28 | Active |
| Fmc Friction Solutions Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-05-28 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 129 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-10-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-08-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-12 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-11-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-19 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2022-05-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-03-22 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2022-03-22 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-03-21 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-03-21 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2021-11-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-11-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-10-22 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2021-10-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-09-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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
-
Turnover
-24.5%
£23,073,045 £17,416,065
-
Cash
-9.9%
£2,647,231 £2,384,456
-
Net assets
+2.2%
£21,735,011 £22,211,999
-
Employees
-10.6%
94 84
-
Operating profit
-48.6%
£5,416,364 £2,785,310
-
Profit before tax
-48.3%
£5,423,107 £2,802,960
-
Wages
-4.3%
£3,005,521 £2,874,911
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