CARLSON LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-31 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-17
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
-0.2% vs 2023
Net assets
£3M
-7.2% vs 2023
Employees
14
-6.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£246K
-423.6% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £7,088,071 | £6,170,839 | |
| Operating profit | £168,067 | -£164,746 | |
| Profit before tax | £76,062 | -£246,120 | |
| Net profit | £43,546 | -£246,120 | |
| Cash | £3,175,515 | £3,169,652 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,577,959 | £4,131,727 | |
| Net assets | £3,431,332 | £3,185,212 | |
| Equity | £3,431,332 | £3,185,212 | |
| Average employees | 15 | 14 | |
| Wages | £904,859 | £1,056,212 |
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 | 2.4% | -2.7% | |
| Net margin | 0.6% | -4.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 3.7% | -4.0% | |
| Current ratio | 1.71x | 1.64x | |
| Interest cover | 1.83x | -2.02x |
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
- A.C.T. Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors of the company have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, being at least 12 months from the date of signing the financial statements. Accordingly, the company continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- CARLSON LTD · parent
- Carlson Atlantic Inc 100%
- Carlson East Limited 70%
Significant events
- “The decline highlighted in the Turnover (and consequently in the Gross Profit and Operating Profit), is due to the increasing cost of shipping the artworks. A lot of factors have contributed to the global condition, but notably this is an impact of the war between Ukraine and Russia.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NAVA, Richard Alexander | Director | 2019-07-23 | Jun 1972 | British |
| SHEINESS, Samantha Rae | Director | 2023-09-13 | Aug 1985 | American |
| VALLONE, Pietro | Director | 2023-09-13 | Jan 1977 | Italian |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| FINCHLEY SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2007-10-26 | 2014-05-01 |
| ALLEN, Christpher Martin | Director | 2009-04-30 | 2013-02-04 |
| BARBIERI, Ludovica | Director | 2018-06-01 | 2023-12-13 |
| DI FILIPPO, Paolo | Director | 2013-02-04 | 2014-01-15 |
| DI FILIPPO, Paolo | Director | 2007-10-26 | 2009-04-30 |
| MOIRAGHI, Roberto | Director | 2014-01-15 | 2018-10-16 |
| PULFER, Philippe | Director | 2018-06-01 | 2020-04-08 |
| TROOSTWYK, John Alexander | Director | 2012-07-16 | 2014-01-15 |
| TROOSTWYK, John Alexander | Director | 2007-10-26 | 2007-10-26 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massimo De Carlo | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 76 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-12-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-07-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2022-06-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-06-01 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2022-06-01 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-05-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-10-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2021-05-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-04-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2020-06-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-05-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2020-04-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination 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 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-12.9%
£7,088,071 £6,170,839
-
Cash
-0.2%
£3,175,515 £3,169,652
-
Net assets
-7.2%
£3,431,332 £3,185,212
-
Employees
-6.7%
15 14
-
Operating profit
-198%
£168,067 -£164,746
-
Profit before tax
-423.6%
£76,062 -£246,120
-
Wages
+16.7%
£904,859 £1,056,212
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