IMPERIAL SOAP WORKS LTD

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  1 PSC ceased in last 24 months

  Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.

1. IMPERIAL SOAP WORKS LTD 2025-05-21 → present
2. PILLING TRADING LIMITED 2007-03-21 → 2025-05-21

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

Sumer Auditco Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group's and parent company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. IMPERIAL SOAP WORKS LTD · parent
   1. Acdoco SA Proprietary Limited 64% · South Africa
   2. Astley Dye and Chemical Company Limited 100% · United Kingdom
   3. Astley Properties (Pty) Ltd 100% · South Africa
   4. Acdo Professional Proprietary Limited 64% · South Africa

Significant events

• “The Directors wish to declare that on 31 March 2025, the company engaged in a share reorganisation. 'Pilling Trading Limited' (company number: 06174209) was formally demerged and a new holding company 'Imperial Soap Works Limited' was put in its place. Contemporaneously, a second new holding company 'Astley (1919) Co Limited' acquired the entire share capital of 'Pilling Trading Limited'. Later, on 10 April 2025, a name swap was approved to change the company's name from 'Pilling Trading Limited' to 'Imperial Soap Works Limited' and whilst this change was only formalised on 21 May 2025 the name swop has had to be recognised in the 2024 accounts.”

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

Filings

7

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

  +3.3%

  £9,268,274 → £9,574,847

• Cash

  +8.2%

  £1,447,757 → £1,566,099

• Net assets

  +1.5%

  £6,640,051 → £6,739,177

• Employees

  -3.7%

  54 → 52

• Operating profit

  +25.2%

  £620,690 → £777,299

• Profit before tax

  +38.3%

  £615,165 → £850,644

• Wages

  -1.6%

  £1,539,409 → £1,514,782

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