COLGATE HOLDINGS
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Confirmation statement due
2026-07-15 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-01
Watchouts
Cash
£107K
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£621M
+155.7% vs 2023
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
£609M
-19.1% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | £751,762,046 | £229,614,529 | |
| Profit before tax | £753,381,023 | £609,365,456 | |
| Net profit | £753,022,980 | £608,148,999 | |
| Cash | — | £107,487 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £243,051,890 | £621,401,038 | |
| Net assets | £243,051,890 | £621,401,038 | |
| Equity | £243,051,890 | £621,401,038 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 | |
| Wages | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | 309.3% | 37.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 0.0% | 0.1% | |
| Current ratio | 617.16x | 445.11x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The company has no committed outflows and pays dividends only when there are sufficient distributable reserves and adequate resources to continue for the foreseeable future. The company's forecasts and projections, taking account of reasonably assessionable changes in trade performance, show that the company should be able to operate within the level of its available resources. After making enquiries, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The company therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.”
Group structure
- COLGATE HOLDINGS · parent
- GABA International Holding GmbH 100%
- GABA Europe Holding GmbH 100%
- Colgate-Palmolive Venezuela 98.56%
- Productors Halogenados Colpalven C.A. 73.91%
- Colgate-Palmolive (Poland) 100%
- Colgate-Palmolive Manufacturing (Poland) 100%
- Colgate-Palmolive Romania 100%
- Colgate-Palmolive Europe SARL 100%
- Colgate-Palmolive Services (Poland) 100%
- GABA Therwill GmbH 100%
Significant events
- “Following a restructuring of the group on 21 October 2024, the immediate parent company became Colgate-Palmolive UK Group Limited. Up until this date, the immediate parent company was Colgate-Palmolive (America) Inc.”
- “On 21 October 2024, the company disposed of its entire shareholding in Colgate (UK) Limited for consideration totalling $638,100,000 to Colgate-Palmolive UK Group Limited as part of a reorganisation of the wider group.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 38 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HERRERA MUNOZ, Fernando | Director | 2024-03-01 | Apr 1974 | Mexican |
| PETERSEN, Simon Hagelskjaer | Director | 2024-01-01 | Oct 1978 | Danish |
| POCHKHANAWALA, Sharmine | Director | 2021-05-05 | May 1981 | Canadian |
| STEWART, Ingrid | Director | 2023-01-01 | Mar 1978 | Australian |
Show 38 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARKER, John Montague Arthur | Secretary | 1995-08-08 | 1996-02-07 |
| HARPER, Ann Alexandra | Secretary | 1996-02-08 | 2003-07-01 |
| PARSONS, Fiona | Secretary | 2003-07-01 | 2011-02-22 |
| BARKER, John Montague Arthur | Director | 1995-08-08 | 1996-02-07 |
| BELASCO, Steven Ronald | Director | 1995-08-08 | 2005-09-30 |
| BURNISTON, Christopher Robert | Director | 2013-11-01 | 2020-02-04 |
| BURTON, Nigel Bruce | Director | 2000-01-04 | 2002-07-29 |
| COCKRELL, David | Director | 1995-08-08 | 1997-03-31 |
| COOK, Ian | Director | 2003-06-01 | 2017-05-23 |
| COWLES, Frederick Oliver | Director | 1995-08-08 | 1997-03-31 |
| DE GUILLENCHMIDT, Alexandre | Director | 2007-09-01 | 2014-09-05 |
| DUROCHER, Philip | Director | 2016-11-01 | 2020-02-01 |
| GORDY, James Taylor | Director | 2020-03-01 | 2023-10-31 |
| GRAYLIN, Peter John | Director | 2009-10-01 | 2013-10-01 |
| GUERRA, Karen Jane | Director | 1995-12-04 | 1999-12-31 |
| HARPER, Ann Alexandra | Director | 1996-11-01 | 2003-07-01 |
| HERMANN, Astrid | Director | 2014-09-05 | 2016-11-01 |
| JULIBER, Lois | Director | 1998-08-12 | 2003-05-31 |
| KAUFMAN, Jules Perry | Director | 2003-02-01 | 2007-08-01 |
| KLADOS, Charalabos | Director | 2016-04-01 | 2023-01-01 |
| MALCOLM, Gregory O'Brian | Director | 2010-09-30 | 2014-09-05 |
| MATHIEU, Valerie | Director | 2016-11-01 | 2018-02-28 |
| MAYES, Michele Coleman | Director | 1997-04-01 | 2003-01-31 |
| MCGINNIS, Marshall Alan | Director | 2020-03-16 | 2021-05-05 |
| METZLER, David | Director | 1995-08-08 | 1998-08-11 |
| MOISON, Franck Jean Yves Henri | Director | 2000-09-01 | 2007-09-01 |
| PARSONS, Fiona | Director | 2010-06-15 | 2011-02-22 |
| PEDERSEN, Christopher Ernest | Director | 2002-09-01 | 2009-10-01 |
| POLI, Massimo | Director | 2012-10-01 | 2016-09-01 |
| PRATT, Dean | Director | 2018-03-01 | 2021-06-01 |
| RAMUNDO, Katherine Elizabeth Hargrove | Director | 2007-08-20 | 2009-10-01 |
| REID, John Telfer | Director | 1995-08-08 | 1996-08-31 |
| SHERWOOD, Scott Lewis | Director | 2009-10-01 | 2012-09-30 |
| SWAYZE, Lee Ann | Director | 2000-09-01 | 2010-09-30 |
| TERUEL, Javier | Director | 1998-08-12 | 2000-08-31 |
| THOMAS, Gareth Bryn | Director | 2014-09-05 | 2016-04-01 |
| TRIGWELL, James Simmonds | Director | 1997-04-06 | 2000-08-31 |
| VOSS, Simon Howard | Director | 2021-06-01 | 2024-02-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colgate-Palmolive Uk Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2024-10-22 | Active |
| Colgate-Palmolive Comany | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-06-30 | Ceased 2024-10-22 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 163 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-11-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-08-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-06 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-11-05 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-07-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-06-25 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-06-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-03-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-03-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-10-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
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
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Turnover
—
Not reported
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Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
+155.7%
£243,051,890 £621,401,038
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Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-69.5%
£751,762,046 £229,614,529
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Profit before tax
-19.1%
£753,381,023 £609,365,456
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