THE LITTLE GREENE PAINT COMPANY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-07-31 (in 2mo)
Last filed for 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-05 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-05-22
Watchouts
Cash
£3M
-12.2% vs 2023
Net assets
£20M
+10.2% vs 2023
Employees
147
+3.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£5M
-12.1% 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.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- THE LITTLE GREENE PAINT COMPANY LIMITED 2009-10-28 → present
- BRADITE LIMITED 1996-05-22 → 2009-10-28
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-10-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-10-31 | 2024-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £40,599,430 | £41,975,341 | |
| Operating profit | £5,906,006 | £5,209,505 | |
| Profit before tax | £5,925,818 | £5,210,528 | |
| Net profit | £4,578,374 | £3,950,724 | |
| Cash | £3,355,636 | £2,945,316 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £19,770,314 | £21,887,525 | |
| Net assets | £18,381,597 | £20,250,599 | |
| Equity | £18,381,597 | £20,250,599 | |
| Average employees | 142 | 147 | |
| Wages | £6,510,934 | £6,951,139 |
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 | 2023-10-31 | 2024-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 14.5% | 12.4% | |
| Net margin | 11.3% | 9.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 29.9% | 23.8% | |
| Current ratio | 2.50x | 3.09x |
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
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- THE LITTLE GREENE PAINT COMPANY LIMITED · parent
- Bradite Limited 100%
- The Little Greene Paint Company France 100%
- The Little Greene Paint Company Italia 100%
- Little Greene Nederland B.V. 100%
- Little Greene Corporation 100%
- Little Greene Sverige AB 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HANIF, Mohammed Naheed | Secretary | 2014-03-04 | — | — |
| COSGROVE, Marcus | Director | 2019-04-28 | Oct 1962 | British |
| HANIF, Mohammed Naheed | Director | 2014-03-04 | Jun 1972 | British |
| MOTTERSHEAD, Benjamin David | Director | 2014-03-04 | Apr 1983 | British |
| MOTTERSHEAD, David Reginald | Director | 1996-05-23 | Jul 1952 | British |
| MOTTERSHEAD, Ruth Elizabeth Helen | Director | 2014-03-04 | Mar 1985 | British |
| RANKEN, Remo Murray | Director | 2014-03-04 | Feb 1966 | British |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| FALDER, John Stuart | Secretary | 1996-05-23 | 2014-03-04 |
| BRITANNIA COMPANY FORMATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1996-05-22 | 1996-05-23 |
| AYRE, Thomas Richard | Director | 1997-01-31 | 2014-03-04 |
| BRINDLEY, Timothy John Healy | Director | 1997-01-31 | 1999-01-26 |
| BURTON, Andrew Mark | Director | 2000-05-05 | 2007-09-30 |
| FALDER, John Stuart | Director | 1996-05-23 | 2014-03-04 |
| FALDER, Stephen Brian | Director | 1997-01-31 | 2014-03-04 |
| MATTHEWS, Ronald | Director | 1997-01-31 | 1999-02-28 |
| MITCHELL, Paul | Director | 2012-05-03 | 2014-03-04 |
| DEANSGATE COMPANY FORMATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1996-05-22 | 1996-05-23 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Greene (Holdings) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2026-01-02 | Active |
| Little Greene Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-01-02 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 157 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-24 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2026-01-13 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-13 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-16 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-09-15 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-09-15 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-07-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-05 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-06-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-05 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-07-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-05-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-07-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-05-25 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-05-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 10
- 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 2024-10-31 vs 2023-10-31
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Turnover
+3.4%
£40,599,430 £41,975,341
-
Cash
-12.2%
£3,355,636 £2,945,316
-
Net assets
+10.2%
£18,381,597 £20,250,599
-
Employees
+3.5%
142 147
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Operating profit
-11.8%
£5,906,006 £5,209,505
-
Profit before tax
-12.1%
£5,925,818 £5,210,528
-
Wages
+6.8%
£6,510,934 £6,951,139
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