ARDAGH METAL PACKAGING TRADING UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-17
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£389K
-85.8% vs 2023
Net assets
£28M
+5.2% vs 2023
Employees
44
+18.9% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£9M
-4.1% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- ARDAGH METAL PACKAGING TRADING UK LIMITED 2022-02-15 → present
- ARDAGH METAL BEVERAGE TRADING UK LIMITED 2016-08-11 → 2022-02-15
- BALL TRADING UK LIMITED 2011-11-02 → 2016-08-11
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 | £411,040,000 | £408,400,000 | |
| Operating profit | £3,922,000 | £3,696,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £9,761,000 | £9,365,000 | |
| Net profit | £7,470,000 | £7,002,000 | |
| Cash | £2,747,000 | £389,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £27,096,000 | £28,495,000 | |
| Net assets | £27,096,000 | £28,495,000 | |
| Equity | £27,096,000 | £28,495,000 | |
| Average employees | 37 | 44 | |
| Wages | £2,230,000 | £2,893,000 |
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 | 1.0% | 0.9% | |
| Net margin | 1.8% | 1.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 14.5% | 13.0% | |
| Current ratio | 1.23x | 1.26x |
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
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Company meets its day-to-day working capital requirements through access to funds as part of Ardagh Metal Packaging's cash pooling arrangement that is administered through Ardagh Metal Packaging Holdings Germany GmbH, a fellow group company, which acts as an internal bank for Ardagh Metal Packaging S.A.'s subsidiaries. Under the cash pooling arrangements, there is no cash held by the Company - all balances are 'swept' to Ardagh Metal Packaging Holdings Germany GmbH at the end of business on each day. The Company is wholly dependent on this cash pooling arrangement for access to the cash flows necessary for the day-to-day running of the Company and to support the going concern assertion.”
Significant events
- “On 28 July 2025, Ardagh Metal Packaging S.A. announced that its indirect parent company, Ardagh Group S.A. ("AGSA"), had entered into an agreement for a comprehensive recapitalisation transaction (the "Agreed Recapitalisation Transaction") with its largest financial stakeholders, including, among others, its controlling shareholder. The Agreed Recapitalisation Transaction is expected to complete in October 2025 and is subject to receipt of required regulatory approvals and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELLIOTT, Simon | Secretary | 2025-08-11 | — | — |
| GRESTY, Simon John | Director | 2015-04-02 | Apr 1963 | British |
| REED, John Gerard | Director | 2020-05-01 | Feb 1967 | British |
| SCHELLINGER, Stefan Ludwig | Director | 2025-08-11 | May 1970 | British |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SARAI, Mandeep | Secretary | 2019-08-19 | 2024-08-09 |
| BOLT, Annemieke | Director | 2017-10-23 | 2024-06-24 |
| BROWN, Gary Anthony | Director | 2016-01-28 | 2020-03-31 |
| CAFFERTY, Vanessa Simone | Director | 2012-10-15 | 2016-02-12 |
| COURTNEY, Geoffrey Michael | Director | 2012-08-03 | 2014-12-19 |
| DICK, Mike | Director | 2017-10-23 | 2025-08-11 |
| HESKE, Gerrit | Director | 2011-11-02 | 2012-08-03 |
| HIGGINS, Sean Thomas | Director | 2013-08-23 | 2015-04-24 |
| SIEBERT, Stefan | Director | 2017-10-23 | 2019-10-15 |
| WALSH, Alan Paul | Director | 2012-08-03 | 2013-05-21 |
| WEEKERS, Frank | Director | 2011-11-02 | 2012-08-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ardagh Metal Packaging Holdings Uk Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-06-30 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 81 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-02-15 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-30 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2026-01-30 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-11 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-08-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-09-26 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-09-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-02 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-08 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-11-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-30 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-09-13 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-02-15 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- 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
-0.6%
£411,040,000 £408,400,000
-
Cash
-85.8%
£2,747,000 £389,000
-
Net assets
+5.2%
£27,096,000 £28,495,000
-
Employees
+18.9%
37 44
-
Operating profit
-5.8%
£3,922,000 £3,696,000
-
Profit before tax
-4.1%
£9,761,000 £9,365,000
-
Wages
+29.7%
£2,230,000 £2,893,000
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