MIDDLETON GROUP LIMITED

1. MIDDLETON GROUP LIMITED 2018-11-21 → present
2. MIDDLETON PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT LIMITED 1997-05-08 → 2018-11-21

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 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Crowe U.K. LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Directors believe there are no material uncertainties that call into doubt the Group's ability to continue as a going concern and the accounts have therefore been prepared on the basis that the Group is a going concern. The Directors have reviewed the Group's finances and in the short term cash holdings are sufficient to ensure adequate cashflow for the foreseeable future. In the medium to long term plans for, and the structure of, Middleton Group Limited remain extant and will continue to be reviewed regularly.”

Group structure

1. MIDDLETON GROUP LIMITED · parent
   1. Middleton Paper Company Limited 100% · UK · independent paper merchants supplier to the print and packaging industries
   2. LORAP Limited 100% · UK
   3. L & S Middleton Limited 100% · UK · cash and carry business
   4. Middleton Food Products Limited 100% · UK · leading supplier to the fish and chip catering industry

Significant events

• “Profits generated by our cash and carry business; L&S Middleton were reduced by £1.1 million over results for 2023 which benefitted from profits arising from property disposals of £1.0 million”
• “In March 2023, Middleton Group Limited bought the remaining 20% of Middleton Paper Company Limited.”
• “In March 2023, Middleton Group Limited bought the remaining 20% of LORAP Limited.”

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

Filings

13

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +4.5%

  £69,268,419 → £72,411,004

• Cash

  +19.9%

  £16,063,834 → £19,254,846

• Net assets

  +6.2%

  £53,602,210 → £56,916,106

• Employees

  +3.4%

  174 → 180

• Operating profit

  +9.4%

  £3,769,033 → £4,122,792

• Profit before tax

  +297.5%

  £1,190,309 → £4,730,895

• Wages

  +25.9%

  £8,529,909 → £10,736,226

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