WEDDEL SWIFT LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-09-27
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-17 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-03
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£231K
+4,520% vs 2023
Net assets
£8M
+14.6% vs 2023
Employees
11
-35.3% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£189K
-67.6% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- WEDDEL SWIFT LIMITED 2000-10-02 → present
- HOWPER 321 LIMITED 2000-06-26 → 2000-10-02
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-09-27
| Metric | Trend | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £50,126,000 | £46,594,000 | |
| Operating profit | £560,000 | £222,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £583,000 | £189,000 | |
| Net profit | £454,000 | £141,000 | |
| Cash | £5,000 | £231,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,697,000 | £7,675,000 | |
| Net assets | £6,696,000 | £7,674,000 | |
| Equity | £6,696,000 | £7,674,000 | |
| Average employees | 17 | 11 | |
| Wages | £961,000 | £696,000 |
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 | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.1% | 0.5% | |
| Net margin | 0.9% | 0.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 8.4% | 2.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 56.5% | 57.0% | |
| Current ratio | 1.76x | 1.75x | |
| Interest cover | 50.91x | 6.73x |
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
“Based on the group's current trading performance, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the group and the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, being a period of no less than twelve months after the date of approval of these financial statements.”
Group structure
- WEDDEL SWIFT LIMITED · parent
- Weddel Meats Limited 100%
- Meat Importer (Non trading) 100%
- Weddel Swift South Africa (Proprietary) Limited (Non trading) 100%
- Activebrave Limited 100%
- Alphega Limited 100%
- Alpineagent Limited 100%
- Angling On Line Limited 100%
- Barcruise Enterprises Limited 100%
- Bennett's Welsh Lamb Cyfyngedig 100%
- Brandlamp Limited 100%
- Butcher's Box Limited 100%
- Catchlaunch Limited 100%
- Choiceplaza Limited 100%
- Choiceset Limited 100%
- Diet Connect Limited 100%
- Donald Cook's Limited 100%
- Electarea Trading Limited 100%
- Fircroft Enterprises Limited 100%
- Fishing On Line Limited 100%
- Giltspur Limited 100%
- Gourmet Connect Limited 100%
- R C Hammett Limited 100%
- Harmart Limited 100%
- Haulback Trading Limited 100%
- Hooked On Line Limited 100%
- John Layton & Co. Limited 100%
- Meadow Farm Produce Limited 100%
- Metier Tubbs Limited 100%
- Quickmade Limited 100%
- Raisetrend Limited 100%
- RP Agencies Limited 100%
- Shelfroom Trading Limited 100%
- Tackle on Line Limited 100%
- Trotman's (Newbury) Limited 100%
- T W Downs Limited 100%
- Weddel Meats Limited 100%
- Weddel Swift (Imports) Limited 100%
- Weddel Swift (Exports) Limited 100%
- Weddel Swift (Trading) Limited 100%
- Wright & Sons (Butchers) Limited 100%
- Weddel Swift Trading GmbH 100%
- Weddel Swift (Australasia) PTY Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The company is committed to the purchase of foreign currencies amounting to £674,000 (2023: £1,333,910).”
- “Fixed and floating charges are on the assets of the company in respect of guarantees over certain bank borrowings of fellow subsidiaries and the parent company. At 27 September 2024 the total exposure was £6,443,000 (2023: £6,488,000).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RANDALL, Tony | Secretary | 2023-11-30 | — | — |
| RANDALL, Ronald Leslie | Director | 2000-09-01 | May 1947 | British |
| RANDALL, Tony | Director | 2022-11-30 | Dec 1975 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRADY, David Richard | Secretary | 2000-09-01 | 2023-11-30 |
| HP SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2000-06-26 | 2000-09-01 |
| BRADY, David Richard | Director | 2000-09-01 | 2022-11-30 |
| FIELD, Richard John, Mr. | Director | 2015-04-30 | 2017-11-30 |
| FIELD, Richard John, Mr. | Director | 2001-06-29 | 2012-03-31 |
| FIRTH, Peter | Director | 2000-09-01 | 2003-11-13 |
| PARKER, William Joseph | Director | 2000-09-01 | 2015-02-06 |
| PATEL, Pragnesh | Director | 2017-06-28 | 2019-05-31 |
| HP DIRECTORS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2000-06-26 | 2000-09-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Randall Parker Food Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 92 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-14 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-12-14 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-12-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-27 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2021-10-27 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2021-10-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-07-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-06-29 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2020-11-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-07-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-03-17 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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 2024-09-27 vs 2023-09-30
-
Turnover
-7%
£50,126,000 £46,594,000
-
Cash
+4,520%
£5,000 £231,000
-
Net assets
+14.6%
£6,696,000 £7,674,000
-
Employees
-35.3%
17 11
-
Operating profit
-60.4%
£560,000 £222,000
-
Profit before tax
-67.6%
£583,000 £189,000
-
Wages
-27.6%
£961,000 £696,000
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