RAIL GOURMET U.K. LIMITED

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  4 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. RAIL GOURMET U.K. LIMITED 1998-02-03 → present
2. EUROPEAN RAIL CATERING LIMITED 1997-03-03 → 1998-02-03
3. O.B.S SERVICES LIMITED 1995-04-27 → 1997-03-03

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

KPMG LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis as the directors are confident that the company has sufficient funds to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements, through accessing funds deposited with SSP Financing Limited, to meet its liabilities as they fall due for that period.”

Significant events

• “In June 2023, the High Court handed down a decision in the case of Virgin Media Limited v NTL Pension Trustees II Limited and others relating to the validity of certain historical pension changes due to the lack of actuarial confirmation required by law.”
• “Following the July 2024 judgment, the Railways Pension Trustee Company Limited (the Trustee) instructed its legal advisor Slaughter and May to undertake a review of the deeds of amendment entered into relating to the period between 6 April 1997 and 5 April 2016 to ascertain whether any such deeds were invalid due to non-compliance with section 37 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993.”
• “Railpen Limited ("Railpen") notified the Company in July 2024 of certain service issues identified within rail administration, including printing issues, data management, member disclosures, delays in recovery of overpayments, financial controls, and casework backlogs.”

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

Filings

10

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

4

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +16.7%

  £29,672,000 → £34,641,000

• Cash

  +32.1%

  £50,657,000 → £66,935,000

• Net assets

  +7.6%

  £58,623,000 → £63,060,000

• Employees

  +8.3%

  579 → 627

• Operating profit

  -36%

  £1,654,000 → £1,059,000

• Profit before tax

  +6.6%

  £4,317,000 → £4,601,000

• Wages

  +19.4%

  £14,032,000 → £16,753,000

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