WORLD FREIGHT COMPANY INVESTMENT UK LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-29 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£12K
+103.4% vs 2023
Net assets
-£9M
-4.2% vs 2023
Employees
14
-6.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£214K
+77.6% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- WORLD FREIGHT COMPANY INVESTMENT UK LTD 2017-12-22 → present
- DATACAIR BUSINESS SUPPORT LIMITED 2012-01-16 → 2017-12-22
- DATACAIR LIMITED 2011-12-15 → 2012-01-16
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 | £447,803 | £576,600 | |
| Operating profit | -£141,244 | £2 | |
| Profit before tax | -£955,058 | -£214,109 | |
| Net profit | -£950,280 | -£359,239 | |
| Cash | £6,040 | £12,285 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£2,649,201 | £17,395,393 | |
| Net assets | -£8,467,957 | -£8,827,196 | |
| Equity | -£8,467,957 | -£8,827,196 | |
| Average employees | 15 | 14 | |
| Wages | £411,799 | £456,462 |
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 | -31.5% | 0.0% | |
| Net margin | -212.2% | -62.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 5.3% | 0.0% | |
| Current ratio | 0.26x | 0.63x | |
| Interest cover | -0.16x | 0.00x |
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
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The company has net liabilities at the Balance Sheet date of £8,827,196 (2023: £8,467,957). Not withstanding this, the directors believe that it is appropriate to adopt the going concern basis in the preparation of the financial statements. In reaching this conclusion the directors have taken into account the continued and confirmed group support provided by the group and related companies for 12 months from the date of signing these financial statements.”
Group structure
- WORLD FREIGHT COMPANY INVESTMENT UK LTD · parent
- HAE Global Ltd 100%
- Air Liaison Limited 100%
- Air Liaison LLC 100%
- Asia Trans Logistics PTE 100%
- Belfast Airport Handling Limited 100%
- DCA Cargo Limited 100%
- Groupair UK Limited 100%
- East Midlands Airport Handling Limited 100%
- Group Air (S.A.) Proprietary Limited 80%
- HAE Group Limited 100%
- Heavyweight Air Express FZCO 100%
- Heavyweight Air Express FZE 100%
- Heavyweight Air Express Limited 100%
- Heavyweight Air Express Limited 100%
- Heavyweight Air Express Chile 100%
- Heavyweight Air Express LLC 100%
- Heavyweight Air Express 100%
- Heavyweight Air Express 100%
- Heathrow Airport Handling Limited 100%
- Napier Oban Wolfe Limited 50%
- NOW Express Limited 50%
- Pro Charter DW LLC 60%
- Transport Security Associates Limited 100%
- TSA Training Limited 100%
- Heavyweight Air Express Florida 100%
- CNS Ltd 100%
- Air Liaison (U.K.) Ltd 100%
- HAE Group Administration Spolka 100%
- Norzel Limited 100%
- ACP Worldwide Ltd 100%
- ACP Worldwide Holdings Ltd 100%
- Air X Pty Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “On 31 October 2023 the company acquired 100% of the share capital of ACP Worldwide Holdings Ltd (formerly Howard Group Ltd) and its subsidiary companies. The additions above represent legal fees related to the acquisition.”
- “There have been no significant events since the balance sheet date which requires disclosure or adjustment in the financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARROWSMITH, Michael Neil | Director | 2011-12-15 | Nov 1968 | British |
| SINGH, Vikram | Director | 2018-08-02 | Nov 1970 | Indian |
| WHITE, Colin Richard | Director | 2021-09-01 | Oct 1963 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEKERIS, Giovanni | Secretary | 2011-12-15 | 2018-10-31 |
| BRUNET, Pierre Jacques Gerard | Director | 2017-12-21 | 2018-09-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Pierre Jacques Gerard Brunet | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-08-02 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 46 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-09 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-10-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2022-12-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2021-12-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-11-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2021-09-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-02-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2020-12-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-12-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-06-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-04-05 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2018-12-31 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2018-12-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2018-12-28 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation 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
- 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
+28.8%
£447,803 £576,600
-
Cash
+103.4%
£6,040 £12,285
-
Net assets
-4.2%
-£8,467,957 -£8,827,196
-
Employees
-6.7%
15 14
-
Operating profit
+100%
-£141,244 £2
-
Profit before tax
+77.6%
-£955,058 -£214,109
-
Wages
+10.8%
£411,799 £456,462
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