GIFT UNIVERSE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-30 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-06 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-05-23
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
-21.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£11M
+1.8% vs 2024
Employees
81
+11% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£2M
-53.6% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation — the current trading name was adopted 2026-01-15
- GIFT UNIVERSE LIMITED 2026-01-15 → present
- GIFT UNIVERSE MANAGEMENT LIMITED 2016-03-24 → 2026-01-15
- MENKIND RETAIL LIMITED 2009-03-27 → 2016-03-24
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £31,264,381 | £29,943,548 | |
| Operating profit | £4,047,051 | £2,301,952 | |
| Profit before tax | £3,396,401 | £1,577,535 | |
| Net profit | £2,403,883 | £813,091 | |
| Cash | £4,295,999 | £3,358,546 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £11,014,540 | £11,477,692 | |
| Net assets | £10,962,808 | £11,162,898 | |
| Equity | £10,962,808 | £11,162,898 | |
| Average employees | 73 | 81 | |
| Wages | £1,819,130 | £1,932,125 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 12.9% | 7.7% | |
| Net margin | 7.7% | 2.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 36.7% | 20.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.83x | 2.18x | |
| Interest cover | 6.22x | 3.18x |
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
- Menzies LLP
- 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 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.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 11 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GUEST, Stacy Anne | Director | 2024-08-22 | Sep 1979 | British |
| HEIGHT, Katie Louise | Director | 2023-08-01 | Dec 1984 | British |
| KRAFTMAN, James Joshua | Director | 2026-02-13 | Mar 1991 | British |
| KRAFTMAN, Paul Richard | Director | 2009-03-27 | Jul 1961 | British |
| TALBOT, Mark Lewis | Director | 2012-07-13 | Nov 1966 | British |
| WAKEMAN, Gary | Director | 2009-03-27 | Jan 1973 | British |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CETC (NOMINEES) LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2009-03-27 | 2009-03-27 |
| BENNETT, Harvey James | Director | 2024-08-22 | 2025-01-17 |
| BRIDSON, James Stephen | Director | 2017-05-26 | 2018-05-18 |
| CORNER, Vincent Irvine | Director | 2009-03-27 | 2012-01-31 |
| HOLLINS, Philip Martin | Director | 2009-03-27 | 2009-03-27 |
| LANE, Suzanne Elizabeth | Director | 2012-07-23 | 2014-03-14 |
| LOUGHNEY, Sheila Marie | Director | 2017-09-11 | 2017-12-01 |
| MARTINEZ, Christopher Dean | Director | 2016-04-08 | 2016-10-17 |
| SHAWYER, Lee Trevor | Director | 2017-09-11 | 2019-12-27 |
| WILLIAMS, Anthony Mark | Director | 2016-10-17 | 2016-11-18 |
| CITY EXECUTOR & TRUSTEE COMPANY LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2009-03-27 | 2009-03-27 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gift Universe Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 81 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-01-15 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-15 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2026-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-06-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-23 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-08-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-08-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-08-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-06-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-03-30 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2020-06-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
-4.2%
£31,264,381 £29,943,548
-
Cash
-21.8%
£4,295,999 £3,358,546
-
Net assets
+1.8%
£10,962,808 £11,162,898
-
Employees
+11%
73 81
-
Operating profit
-43.1%
£4,047,051 £2,301,952
-
Profit before tax
-53.6%
£3,396,401 £1,577,535
-
Wages
+6.2%
£1,819,130 £1,932,125
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