BOXES AND PACKAGING (UK) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-27 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-13
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
+40.7% vs 2023
Net assets
£14M
+9.5% vs 2023
Employees
508
-2.1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£2M
-30.6% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- BOXES AND PACKAGING (UK) LIMITED 2005-09-21 → present
- HALLCO 1212 LIMITED 2005-09-13 → 2005-09-21
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 | £90,320,788 | £89,292,671 | |
| Operating profit | £3,251,963 | £2,240,493 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,781,269 | £1,931,190 | |
| Net profit | £1,494,441 | £1,213,767 | |
| Cash | £2,952,293 | £4,153,663 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £18,096,593 | £17,120,121 | |
| Net assets | £12,736,687 | £13,950,454 | |
| Equity | £12,736,687 | £13,950,454 | |
| Average employees | 519 | 508 | |
| Wages | £16,049,264 | £16,597,945 |
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 | 3.6% | 2.5% | |
| Net margin | 1.7% | 1.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 18.0% | 13.1% | |
| Current ratio | 0.93x | 0.93x | |
| Interest cover | 6.32x | 6.68x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (Northern Ireland) LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The group meets its day-to-day working capital requirements through its bank facilities. The current economic conditions continue to create uncertainty over (a) the level of demand for the group's products; and (b) the availability of bank finance for the foreseeable future. The group's forecasts and projections, taking account of reasonably possible changes in trading performance, show that the group should be able to operate within the level of its current facilities. The Group maintains a strong balance sheet, significant borrowing facility headroom and working capital facilities. The directors have a reasonable expectation that the group will be able to continue in operation and meet its liabilities as they fall due over the period of at least 12 months from the date of this report and have therefore continued to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- BOXES AND PACKAGING (UK) LIMITED · parent
- Boxes and Packaging (Birmingham) Limited 100%
- Boxes and Packaging (Bristol) Limited 100%
- Boxes and Packaging (Cambridge) Limited 100%
- Boxes and Packaging (Doncaster) Limited 100%
- Boxes and Packaging (Dumbarton) Limited 100%
- Boxes and Packaging (Leicester) Limited 100%
- Boxes and Packaging (Manchester) Limited 100%
- Boxes and Packaging (Merseyside) Limited 100%
- Boxes and Packaging (Oxford) Limited 100%
- Boxes and Packaging (Swindon) Limited 100%
- The Boxshop Limited 100%
- Boxes and Packaging Limited - Dormant 100%
- Newby Packaging Limited 100%
- K-Bins Limited 100%
- K-Bins (Doncaster) Limited - Dormant 100%
Significant events
- “A decision was made in April 2025 to exit the Boxes and Packaging (Leicester) Limited site at the end of the current lease in October 2025. The assets of the business will be redistributed around the wider group of companies, and the change is not anticipated to have a material impact on revenue or returns.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BARNETT, William Bingham | Director | 2015-11-11 | Nov 1976 | British |
| MCCONNELL, Daniel James | Director | 2024-11-07 | Mar 1986 | British |
| O'CALLAGHAN, Gerard Austin | Director | 2022-02-23 | Jul 1974 | Irish |
| RICHARDSON, David John | Director | 2023-01-01 | Oct 1969 | British |
| STELL, Gareth Thomas | Director | 2016-02-12 | Oct 1967 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEPHENSON, Michael William | Secretary | 2005-09-13 | 2012-06-13 |
| HALLIWELLS SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2005-09-13 | 2005-09-13 |
| KELLY, Alexander David | Director | 2016-02-12 | 2022-12-31 |
| LOGGIE, John | Director | 2005-09-13 | 2015-11-11 |
| MCDONNELL, Bernard Neillus | Director | 2015-11-11 | 2024-12-31 |
| RICHARDSON, Gavin Michael | Director | 2016-02-12 | 2025-10-31 |
| STEPHENSON, Michael William | Director | 2005-09-13 | 2015-11-11 |
| HALLIWELLS DIRECTORS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2005-09-13 | 2005-09-13 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logson Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2020-11-25 | Active |
| Logson 106 Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-11-25 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 84 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-09-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-01-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-17 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2023-09-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-09-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-06-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-01-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-03-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-03-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-09-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-09-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2020-12-11 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
-1.1%
£90,320,788 £89,292,671
-
Cash
+40.7%
£2,952,293 £4,153,663
-
Net assets
+9.5%
£12,736,687 £13,950,454
-
Employees
-2.1%
519 508
-
Operating profit
-31.1%
£3,251,963 £2,240,493
-
Profit before tax
-30.6%
£2,781,269 £1,931,190
-
Wages
+3.4%
£16,049,264 £16,597,945
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