BRITA WATER FILTER SYSTEMS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-30 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-16
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£5M
+55% vs 2023
Net assets
£22M
-5.9% vs 2023
Employees
133
+0.8% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£4M
-6.4% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- BRITA WATER FILTER SYSTEMS LIMITED 1992-07-07 → present
- INGLEBY (631) LIMITED 1992-03-25 → 1992-07-07
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 | £75,007,600 | £81,063,358 | |
| Operating profit | £3,799,799 | £3,498,865 | |
| Profit before tax | £3,786,395 | £3,544,449 | |
| Net profit | £3,063,612 | £2,623,600 | |
| Cash | £3,075,488 | £4,767,022 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £24,536,132 | £23,421,963 | |
| Net assets | £23,161,083 | £21,784,683 | |
| Equity | £23,161,083 | £21,784,683 | |
| Average employees | 132 | 133 | |
| Wages | £5,980,030 | £6,791,650 |
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 | 5.1% | 4.3% | |
| Net margin | 4.1% | 3.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 15.5% | 14.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 40.7% | 37.9% | |
| Current ratio | 2.11x | 2.24x | |
| Interest cover | 15.79x | 60.58x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors have reviewed the Company's budgets, forecasts and cash flows and have concluded that they have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for a period up to 30 September 2026. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “In 2024, the company installed the solar PV system on the roof of the main building. Additionally, the company finalised the replacement of the warehouse forklift trucks, Li-on batteries are now used for all trucks on site.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HALL, David John, Dr | Director | 2023-07-07 | May 1973 | British |
| HANKAMMER, Markus | Director | 1996-04-02 | Aug 1968 | German |
| WHITFIELD, Neal | Director | 2018-02-01 | Apr 1970 | British |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| KRAUS, Hans - Michael | Secretary | 1992-06-26 | 2001-06-19 |
| SIEGRIST, Hanns Jochen | Secretary | 2001-06-19 | 2026-01-30 |
| INGLEBY HOLDINGS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1992-03-25 | 1992-06-26 |
| BANFIELD, David Robert | Director | 2001-04-02 | 2011-07-06 |
| BEINING, Michael Norbert | Director | 2004-02-04 | 2005-03-02 |
| BELZ, Rolf Dirk | Director | 2004-02-04 | 2016-02-23 |
| BENDER, Stefan | Director | 1992-06-26 | 1997-06-02 |
| HANKAMMER, Heinz Ernst Wilhelm | Director | 1992-06-26 | 1998-08-01 |
| HOGBEN, Paul Ronald | Director | 1992-11-16 | 2001-09-30 |
| KIRSCHNER, Markus | Director | 2016-04-19 | 2018-03-08 |
| KOEHLER, Christian | Director | 2021-03-04 | 2023-07-31 |
| KONIG-STOLZEL, Beatrice | Director | 1998-08-01 | 2001-04-02 |
| KUMERICS, Michael | Director | 1992-06-26 | 1998-08-01 |
| SEABROOK, Clive Aiden Roger | Director | 2011-07-06 | 2016-01-21 |
| TAYLOR, Sarah Louise | Director | 2015-10-06 | 2021-03-12 |
| INGLEBY HOLDINGS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1992-03-25 | 1992-06-26 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Markus Ralph Hankammer | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 141 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-21 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-03 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-12-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-27 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2025-11-27 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-11-26 | RP04PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Second filing notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-08-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-25 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-11-25 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-10-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-09-27 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-09-27 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-07-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-11-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-03-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
+8.1%
£75,007,600 £81,063,358
-
Cash
+55%
£3,075,488 £4,767,022
-
Net assets
-5.9%
£23,161,083 £21,784,683
-
Employees
+0.8%
132 133
-
Operating profit
-7.9%
£3,799,799 £3,498,865
-
Profit before tax
-6.4%
£3,786,395 £3,544,449
-
Wages
+13.6%
£5,980,030 £6,791,650
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