GWP GROUP LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-15 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-01
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£432K
-24.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£9M
+3% vs 2023
Employees
115
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£3M
-0.3% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £18,544,000 | £18,829,000 | |
| Operating profit | £3,464,000 | £3,441,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £3,293,000 | £3,283,000 | |
| Net profit | £2,515,000 | £2,259,000 | |
| Cash | £575,000 | £432,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £11,468,000 | £11,261,000 | |
| Net assets | £8,536,000 | £8,795,000 | |
| Equity | £8,536,000 | £8,795,000 | |
| Average employees | 115 | 115 | |
| Wages | £3,688,000 | £3,948,000 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 18.7% | 18.3% | |
| Net margin | 13.6% | 12.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 30.2% | 30.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 41.2% | 39.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.47x | 1.36x | |
| Interest cover | 20.26x | 21.78x |
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
- IFRS (FRS 101)
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on experience in 2025 to date, the Directors consider that the Company will continue to operate safely and profitably under all reasonable scenarios. Accordingly, the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in existence for at least twelve months from the date of signing these financial statements. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- GWP GROUP LIMITED · parent
- The Great Western Packaging Company Limited 100%
- Eastman Packaging Limited 100%
- Corstat Containers Limited 100%
Significant events
- “During 2024, the Board of the Group approved a new enhanced revolving credit facility of £40m, with a £20m accordion, with security provided over the assets of the Group and its UK trading subsidiaries. The facility is with two banks, Bank of Scotland PLC and HSBC UK Bank plc, and is available until November 2027 with options to extend to November 2028 and 2029.”
- “Effective from 28 November 2024 Macfarlane Group UK Limited's ultimate parent company Macfarlane Group PLC had a revolving credit facility of £40m, replacing a prior invoice discounting facility of £35m.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 11 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATKINSON, Peter Duncan | Director | 2021-02-26 | Oct 1956 | British |
| COOK, Ruth | Director | 2005-05-21 | Jun 1968 | British |
| GRAY, Ivor | Director | 2021-02-26 | Jul 1969 | British |
| MACDONALD, James Graham | Director | 2021-02-26 | Jan 1986 | British |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BULLOCK, Paul | Secretary | 2014-04-22 | 2021-02-26 |
| COOK, Ian Michael | Secretary | 2005-05-21 | 2006-06-02 |
| COOK, Ruth | Secretary | 2006-06-02 | 2011-05-26 |
| REED, Claire | Secretary | 2011-05-26 | 2014-03-05 |
| BULLOCK, Paul | Director | 2017-10-01 | 2021-02-26 |
| COOK, Ian Michael | Director | 2005-06-30 | 2021-02-26 |
| CREESE, Andrew George James | Director | 2011-01-01 | 2019-11-20 |
| HESKINS, Ian Paul | Director | 2005-06-30 | 2025-02-28 |
| MASON, David Philip | Director | 2005-06-30 | 2021-02-26 |
| PEDLEY, David Bernard | Director | 2005-06-30 | 2021-02-26 |
| WILLIAMS, Ronald | Director | 2005-06-30 | 2011-09-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gwp Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-07-29 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 121 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-29 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-07-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-10 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-12-03 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-07-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-27 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-06-27 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-06-27 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-06-27 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-06-27 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-06-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-05-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-06-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-03-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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
-
Turnover
+1.5%
£18,544,000 £18,829,000
-
Cash
-24.9%
£575,000 £432,000
-
Net assets
+3%
£8,536,000 £8,795,000
-
Employees
0%
115 115
-
Operating profit
-0.7%
£3,464,000 £3,441,000
-
Profit before tax
-0.3%
£3,293,000 £3,283,000
-
Wages
+7%
£3,688,000 £3,948,000
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