META EQUIPMENT AND TRADING LTD.
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-11 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-11-27
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£41M
+25.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£60M
+16.7% vs 2023
Employees
2
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£14M
-0.9% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- META EQUIPMENT AND TRADING LTD. 2014-12-18 → present
- META TRADING AND EQUIPMENT LTD. 2014-12-18 → 2014-12-18
- VARNA EQUIPMENT AND TRADING LTD. 2014-11-27 → 2014-12-18
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 | £79,767,920 | £163,827,378 | |
| Operating profit | £10,121,019 | £10,843,027 | |
| Profit before tax | £13,850,588 | £13,729,707 | |
| Net profit | £11,519,773 | £10,679,368 | |
| Cash | £33,123,206 | £41,439,087 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £51,283,000 | £59,828,536 | |
| Net assets | £51,255,558 | £59,810,852 | |
| Equity | £51,255,558 | £59,810,852 | |
| Average employees | 2 | 2 | |
| Wages | £180,570 | £231,818 |
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 | 12.7% | 6.6% | |
| Net margin | 14.4% | 6.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 19.7% | 18.1% | |
| Current ratio | 2.62x | 10.53x |
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
- BLS Burnells LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the director has a reasonable expectation that the group has adequate resources along with a very strong balance sheet of the parent as well as the subsidiary company and sufficient cash reserve to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future this expectation is also supported by the a strong order book, long term business trade contracts with sufficient liquidity. Thus the director continues to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- META EQUIPMENT AND TRADING LTD. · parent
- Forum Equipment and Trading SA 100%
Significant events
- “The Subsidiary ceased active trading in 2024 and has not entered into any trade agreements in 2025 to date. At present, it is acting as an investment vehicle until such time as a strategic decision is made to resume trading activities in the future.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
1 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ERTAN, Zeynep | Director | 2023-05-01 | Jan 1985 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREENWOOD, Bryan John | Director | 2014-11-27 | 2016-10-24 |
| KANNUR, Enver Cavit | Director | 2022-11-25 | 2023-05-01 |
| KARAMAN KAAN, Pinar | Director | 2016-10-24 | 2022-11-25 |
| WARSHAW, Nicholas Anthony Beresford | Director | 2016-01-14 | 2016-10-24 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Mehmet Cengiz | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 40 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-10-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-12-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-12-04 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-12-04 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-12-04 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-12-04 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-09-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-05-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-11-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-11-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-11-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-11-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-12-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-12-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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
+105.4%
£79,767,920 £163,827,378
-
Cash
+25.1%
£33,123,206 £41,439,087
-
Net assets
+16.7%
£51,255,558 £59,810,852
-
Employees
0%
2 2
-
Operating profit
+7.1%
£10,121,019 £10,843,027
-
Profit before tax
-0.9%
£13,850,588 £13,729,707
-
Wages
+28.4%
£180,570 £231,818
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