FORDS PACKAGING TOPCO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-23 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-09
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
-17.7% vs 2023
Net assets
£7M
-6.3% vs 2023
Employees
59
+11.3% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£1M
+90.8% vs 2023
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 | £7,679,289 | £10,289,408 | |
| Operating profit | £444,350 | £927,381 | |
| Profit before tax | £545,200 | £1,040,440 | |
| Net profit | £369,817 | £746,076 | |
| Cash | £5,077,112 | £4,180,933 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,479,131 | £7,152,319 | |
| Net assets | £7,113,260 | £6,664,167 | |
| Equity | £7,113,260 | £6,664,167 | |
| Average employees | 53 | 59 | |
| Wages | £2,863,473 | £3,413,037 |
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 | 5.8% | 9.0% | |
| Net margin | 4.8% | 7.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 5.9% | 13.0% | |
| Current ratio | 4.44x | 3.28x | |
| Interest cover | 666.19x | 1371.87x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have prepared the financial statements on the going concern basis as they do not intend to liquidate the group or the company or to cease their operations, and as they have concluded that the group and the company's financial position means that this is realistic. They have also concluded that there are no material uncertainties that could have cast significant doubt over their ability to continue as a going concern for at least a year from the date of approval of the financial statements ("the going concern period").”
Group structure
- FORDS PACKAGING TOPCO LIMITED · parent
- Fords Packaging Systems Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Supply chains generally normalised versus recent years, although certain electronic components and international freight were affected by early-2024 shipping reroutes.”
- “employment tribunal claim and related payments as a result of the settlement of the claim; a share valuation dispute (both resolved in the year with all claims closed)”
- “restructuring of the finance function, including Interim CFO cover, abnormal recruitment and contractor costs, and short-term dual-running/transition overlaps”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALDOUS, Hugh Graham | Director | 2023-09-21 | Jun 1944 | British |
| JACKSON, Michael Edward Wilson | Director | 2023-01-11 | Mar 1950 | British |
| WHINCUP, Laura Anne | Director | 2013-12-09 | Dec 1983 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BONHAM, Robert John | Director | 2016-02-03 | 2024-04-23 |
| CUSANO, Giuseppe | Director | 2013-12-16 | 2022-06-28 |
| HORLICK, William | Director | 2023-01-11 | 2023-09-21 |
| JACKSON, Michael Edward Wilson | Director | 2013-12-16 | 2023-01-11 |
| KIRK, Leonard Mcneil | Director | 2024-07-30 | 2024-12-06 |
| LOWE, David Andrew | Director | 2013-12-09 | 2018-05-11 |
| PATEL, Jaiprakash | Director | 2024-12-19 | 2025-04-10 |
| OVAL NOMINEES LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2013-12-09 | 2013-12-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Molten Ventures Vct Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 66 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-04-20 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-04-20 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-04-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-12-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-07-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-15 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2024-05-15 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2024-04-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-22 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-04-20 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-04-20 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-04-15 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-12-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-10-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-09-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 2
- 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
+34%
£7,679,289 £10,289,408
-
Cash
-17.7%
£5,077,112 £4,180,933
-
Net assets
-6.3%
£7,113,260 £6,664,167
-
Employees
+11.3%
53 59
-
Operating profit
+108.7%
£444,350 £927,381
-
Profit before tax
+90.8%
£545,200 £1,040,440
-
Wages
+19.2%
£2,863,473 £3,413,037
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