UCC EUROPE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2025-09-30
Overdue
Confirmation statement due
2027-05-05 (in 1y)
Last made up 2026-04-21
Watchouts
Cash
£7M
+13.4% vs 2022
Net assets
£243M
-2.7% vs 2022
Employees
1,623
+6% vs 2022
Profit before tax
-£11M
+35.9% vs 2022
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Annual accounts overdue
Due 2025-09-30.
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Material uncertainty over going concern
A material uncertainty over the Group's ability to maintain a going concern exists because the renewal of a €55.0 million credit facility is not certain, and without this, the Group may not have sufficient liquidity. The Directors have concluded to adopt the going concern basis based on past renewals and indications of future renewal.
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Audit opinion: Disclaimer of opinion
Latest auditor's report carried a non-clean opinion.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2023-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £477,515,603 | £506,007,282 | |
| Operating profit | -£15,188,107 | -£7,889,216 | |
| Profit before tax | -£17,517,337 | -£11,231,796 | |
| Net profit | -£14,841,366 | -£9,308,252 | |
| Cash | £6,194,521 | £7,021,498 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £312,688,107 | £293,177,878 | |
| Net assets | £249,747,746 | £243,120,666 | |
| Equity | £249,747,746 | £243,120,666 | |
| Average employees | 1,531 | 1,623 | |
| Wages | £63,671,117 | £67,661,234 |
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 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -3.2% | -1.6% | |
| Net margin | -3.1% | -1.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | -4.9% | -2.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 47.3% | 46.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.01x | 0.89x | |
| Interest cover | -6.51x | -2.49x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Disclaimer of opinion
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“A material uncertainty over the Group's ability to maintain a going concern exists because the renewal of a €55.0 million credit facility is not certain, and without this, the Group may not have sufficient liquidity. The Directors have concluded to adopt the going concern basis based on past renewals and indications of future renewal.”
Group structure
- UCC EUROPE LIMITED · parent
- UCC Europe Finance Limited 100%
- Coffee Capsule Holding SA 100%
- UCC Coffee Benelux B.V. 100%
- UCC Coffee UK Limited 100%
- UCC Coffee Holding France Sarl 100%
- UCC Coffee Services Switzerland AG 100%
- UCC Coffee Germany GmbH 100%
- UCC Coffee Switzerland AG 100%
- Smit & Dorlas Koffiebranders B.V. 100%
- Cafés Templo Foodservice SL 100%
- Cocatech SL 99%
- UCC Coffee Spain Canarias SL 100%
- Ueshima coffee Portugal Lda 100%
- UCC Coffee Ireland Limited 100%
- UCC Coffee Spain S.L.U. 100%
- UCC Coffee France S.A.S. 100%
- Alice Allison SA 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TMF CORPORATE ADMINISTRATION SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2012-04-22 | — | — |
| IKEDA, Makoto | Director | 2022-06-11 | Aug 1981 | Japanese |
| MIKI, Takaho | Director | 2026-05-01 | Nov 1966 | Japanese |
| SATO, Tsukasa | Director | 2012-05-17 | Jan 1974 | Japanese |
| UESHIMA, Gota | Director | 2012-05-17 | Sep 1968 | Japanese |
| UESHIMA, Masaro | Director | 2012-05-17 | Oct 1970 | Japanese |
| UESHIMA, Seisuke | Director | 2012-04-03 | Nov 1973 | Japanese |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HADORN, Samuel Adrian | Director | 2023-07-01 | 2025-03-31 |
| HADORN, Samuel Adrian | Director | 2023-01-01 | 2023-01-01 |
| MOLYNEUX, Paul David | Director | 2023-01-01 | 2023-06-30 |
| MOLYNEUX, Paul David | Director | 2019-05-14 | 2022-12-31 |
| NISHIKURA, Ichiro | Director | 2025-09-05 | 2026-03-31 |
| SHIMURA, Yasumasa | Director | 2012-05-17 | 2023-03-27 |
| SHINTANI, Motohiko | Director | 2025-01-01 | 2025-01-31 |
| TASHIRO, Kazuhiro | Director | 2018-06-27 | 2022-06-11 |
| YASUDA, Hideyuki | Director | 2016-05-01 | 2025-11-11 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Gota Ueshima | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2017-04-21 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 104 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-05-12 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2026-05-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-04-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-09-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-25 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-04-25 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-04-25 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-04-25 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-04-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-05-08 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-05-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-05-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-04-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
FY2022 → FY2023 · period ending 2023-12-31 vs 2022-12-31
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Turnover
+6%
£477,515,603 £506,007,282
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Cash
+13.4%
£6,194,521 £7,021,498
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Net assets
-2.7%
£249,747,746 £243,120,666
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Employees
+6%
1,531 1,623
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Operating profit
+48.1%
-£15,188,107 -£7,889,216
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Profit before tax
+35.9%
-£17,517,337 -£11,231,796
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Wages
+6.3%
£63,671,117 £67,661,234
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