CHURCHILL CHINA PLC
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-04-30 (in 11mo)
Last made up 2026-04-16
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£10M
-27.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£61M
+2.2% vs 2023
Employees
723
-13.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£9M
-20.9% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- CHURCHILL CHINA PLC 1992-12-01 → present
- INHOCO 185 LIMITED 1992-04-24 → 1992-12-01
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 | £82,339,000 | £78,279,000 | |
| Operating profit | £10,252,000 | £7,995,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £10,788,000 | £8,536,000 | |
| Net profit | £7,717,000 | £6,365,000 | |
| Cash | £13,933,000 | £10,100,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £66,195,000 | £67,605,000 | |
| Net assets | £59,941,000 | £61,263,000 | |
| Equity | £59,941,000 | £61,263,000 | |
| Average employees | 836 | 723 | |
| Wages | £27,332,000 | £26,296,000 |
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 | 12.5% | 10.2% | |
| Net margin | 9.4% | 8.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 15.5% | 11.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 25.6% | 22.6% | |
| Current ratio | 3.26x | 3.96x | |
| Interest cover | 136.69x | 88.83x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group and the Company have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason they continue to adopt the going concern basis in the preparation of the financial statements.”
Group structure
- CHURCHILL CHINA PLC · parent
- Churchill China (UK) Limited 100%
- Furlong Mills Ltd 100%
- Churchill China, Inc 100%
- Churchill Ceramica Iberia, S.L. 100%
- Churchill China RM S.R.L. 100%
- Churchill China (Deutschland) GmbH 100%
- Churchill Homewares Limited 100%
- Churchill Ceramics (UK) Ltd 100%
- James Broadhurst & Sons Ltd 100%
- Churchill Tableware Limited 100%
- Churchill Fine China Holdings Limited 100%
- Churchill Fine China Limited 100%
- Elizabethan Fine Bone China Limited 100%
- Crown Clearance Limited 100%
Significant events
- “As a result, revenue in the year reduced to £78.3m, down from £82.3m in 2023, a reduction of 4.9% year-on-year.”
- “The profit impact of reduced volumes in a difficult pricing environment was partially offset by improved operational performance, leaving profit before tax at £8.5m for the year (2023: £10.8m) representing a return on sales of 10.9% (2023: 13.1%).”
- “The strength of our unencumbered balance sheet and our strong cash position has allowed us to maintain healthy capital expenditure and dividend payments during the year, meaning the Company had an outflow of £3.8m (2023: inflow £4.3m).”
- “We are pleased to propose a final dividend of 26.5p per share giving a total dividend of 38.0p per share for the year.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 26 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CUNNINGHAM, Michael | Secretary | 2024-12-20 | — | — |
| CUNNINGHAM, Michael | Director | 2023-06-08 | Mar 1971 | British |
| MOORE, Julian Mark | Director | 2021-04-19 | Mar 1962 | British |
| O'CONNOR, David Michael | Director | 1999-01-08 | Nov 1956 | British |
| PAYNE, Martin Keith | Director | 2024-01-16 | Jul 1965 | British |
| ROPER, James Andrew, Mr. | Director | 2015-07-24 | Oct 1976 | British |
| STEPHENS, Caroline Jane | Director | 2023-02-15 | Dec 1967 | British |
| WILLIAMS, Robin George Walton | Director | 2022-10-11 | Jun 1957 | British |
Show 26 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINCLAIR, Marc | Secretary | 2023-04-12 | 2024-12-20 |
| TAYLOR, David John Simon | Secretary | 1992-12-01 | 2023-04-12 |
| A B & C SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1992-04-24 | 1992-12-01 |
| BELL, Simon Michael John | Director | 2000-05-17 | 2000-11-27 |
| BROMFIELD, Angela Claire | Director | 2016-07-01 | 2022-06-22 |
| BURNS, Bernard Patrick | Director | 1992-12-01 | 1993-06-07 |
| COLEMAN, Peter | Director | 1994-09-07 | 1996-02-16 |
| DEIGHTON, Paul Dennis | Director | 1999-01-08 | 2003-06-06 |
| GRUNDY, Ralph | Director | 2000-05-17 | 2008-04-28 |
| HEYWOOD, Dennis Peter | Director | 1992-12-01 | 1998-04-24 |
| HICKS, Iain Trevenon | Director | 2006-09-28 | 2011-12-02 |
| HYNES, Brendan | Director | 2013-09-24 | 2024-06-04 |
| JOHNSON, Robert Lewis | Director | 1993-10-06 | 2001-03-29 |
| KETTEL, Rodney Spencer | Director | 1999-02-11 | 2010-05-19 |
| MAPP, Derek | Director | 1998-05-13 | 2000-05-17 |
| MCWALTER, Alan James | Director | 2011-01-05 | 2023-06-08 |
| MORGAN, Jonathan Windsor | Director | 2007-05-16 | 2016-05-26 |
| ROBINSON PRESTON, Helen Gillian | Director | 1996-01-29 | 1998-01-30 |
| ROPER, Andrew David | Director | 1992-12-01 | 2020-08-14 |
| ROPER, Edward Stephen | Director | 1992-12-01 | 2007-05-16 |
| ROPER, Michael John | Director | 1992-12-01 | 1999-05-19 |
| SIDDALL, Peter John | Director | 1992-12-01 | 1996-05-15 |
| SPAREY, Jonathan Nigel Edward | Director | 2000-05-17 | 2013-05-22 |
| SWINGLER, Michael | Director | 1992-12-01 | 1999-02-11 |
| TAYLOR, David John Simon | Director | 1993-07-30 | 2023-04-12 |
| A B & C SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1992-04-24 | 1992-12-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 243 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-06-11 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-06-14 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-06-11 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-05-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-20 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-20 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-06-14 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-06-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-06-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-06-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-04-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-13 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-04-13 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-04-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-03-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-12-02 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address |
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
-
Turnover
-4.9%
£82,339,000 £78,279,000
-
Cash
-27.5%
£13,933,000 £10,100,000
-
Net assets
+2.2%
£59,941,000 £61,263,000
-
Employees
-13.5%
836 723
-
Operating profit
-22%
£10,252,000 £7,995,000
-
Profit before tax
-20.9%
£10,788,000 £8,536,000
-
Wages
-3.8%
£27,332,000 £26,296,000
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