MIRO FORESTRY DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-01 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-18
Watchouts
Cash
£1M
-48.4% vs 2023
Net assets
-£42M
-56.6% vs 2023
Employees
3,119
+76.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£15M
+31.3% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
We draw attention to note 3(a) in the financial statements, which indicates that further funding is expected to be required within the 12 months to 31 December 2026 in order to fully fund working capital requirements and plantation operations in accordance with currently approved budgets. There is uncertainty surrounding the ability to raise the level of funds required, as well as the timing of this.
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6 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £8,303,325 | £17,576,710 | |
| Operating profit | -£15,768,608 | -£6,874,986 | |
| Profit before tax | -£22,066,103 | -£15,163,646 | |
| Net profit | -£22,066,103 | -£15,163,646 | |
| Cash | £2,623,514 | £1,354,311 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £82,716,159 | £89,903,748 | |
| Net assets | -£26,808,259 | -£41,971,905 | |
| Equity | -£26,808,259 | -£41,971,905 | |
| Average employees | 1,767 | 3,119 | |
| Wages | £4,048,096 | £5,415,242 |
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 | -189.9% | -39.1% | |
| Net margin | -265.8% | -86.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | -19.1% | -7.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 130.6% | 143.6% | |
| Current ratio | 2.65x | 2.17x | |
| Interest cover | -2.48x | -0.82x |
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
- PKF Littlejohn LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“We draw attention to note 3(a) in the financial statements, which indicates that further funding is expected to be required within the 12 months to 31 December 2026 in order to fully fund working capital requirements and plantation operations in accordance with currently approved budgets. There is uncertainty surrounding the ability to raise the level of funds required, as well as the timing of this.”
Group structure
- MIRO FORESTRY DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED · parent
- Miro Forestry (Ghana) Ltd 100%
- Miro Forestry (SL) Ltd 100%
- Miro Timber Products Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “On 18th June 2025, the Company restructured its share capital by converting preference shares into ordinary shares and cancelling the warrants and growth shares. Following this capital restructure, a new investor, Jessy II Limited, and five existing shareholders... invested US$34 million as ordinary equity.”
- “On the 11th December 2024, the Company signed a loan facility for US$10,714,286 of new investment... This financing, together with further working capital and asset based financing financed the business through the first half of 2025.”
- “Completed the expansion of the plymill and continued the scale up of plywood production and revenue in Ghana; and Completed the construction of a plymill in Sierra Leone to advance the value added timber processing and began the scale up of plywood production and revenue in Sierra Leone.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 17 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSTON, Benjamin Monk | Director | 2021-05-28 | Dec 1974 | British |
| KANSAGRA, Rishi Ramesh | Director | 2025-06-18 | Mar 1981 | British |
| KIRBY, Jonathan Andrew | Director | 2022-10-10 | Jun 1962 | South African |
| MENTA, Sravan Sanjeev | Director | 2025-10-01 | Jun 1982 | British |
| NORJAMAKI, Ilkka Johannes | Director | 2016-06-16 | Oct 1976 | Finnish |
Show 17 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALEXANDER, Keith David Rennie | Director | 2015-01-28 | 2021-04-22 |
| AUVINEN, Sampsa Juhana | Director | 2020-07-20 | 2024-12-10 |
| AUVINEN, Sampsa Juhana | Director | 2020-07-20 | 2025-06-18 |
| BARLOW, Ross Edward | Director | 2021-02-23 | 2025-06-18 |
| BOSWORTH, Charles James | Director | 2015-01-28 | 2022-10-10 |
| COLLINS, Andrew Charles Michael | Director | 2014-12-18 | 2024-12-10 |
| DOVLO, Robert Fakor | Director | 2020-09-01 | 2025-06-18 |
| GHASSMI, Afshin Rahmatola | Director | 2022-04-20 | 2022-10-10 |
| KINGMA, Berend Jan | Director | 2025-02-01 | 2025-06-18 |
| LAING, Richard George | Director | 2015-01-28 | 2021-04-22 |
| LALOE, Florence Karine | Director | 2021-09-13 | 2025-06-18 |
| LOGOTHETIS, Iakovos Jacob | Director | 2015-01-28 | 2021-05-28 |
| SANTHANAM, Saidiwakar | Director | 2025-06-18 | 2025-10-01 |
| SKELLY, Hanna Maria | Director | 2018-11-22 | 2020-05-29 |
| SKELLY, Hanna Maria | Director | 2015-01-28 | 2016-06-01 |
| SMITH, Andries Stephanus | Director | 2021-04-22 | 2022-04-20 |
| TILLERY, Andrew James | Director | 2015-01-28 | 2020-07-26 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 130 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-12-01 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-12-01 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-01-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-12-01 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-12-01 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-11-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-21 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-07-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-11 | ANNOTATION | miscellaneous | Legacy | |
| 2025-01-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-12-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-12-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 14
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 6
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
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Turnover
+111.7%
£8,303,325 £17,576,710
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Cash
-48.4%
£2,623,514 £1,354,311
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Net assets
-56.6%
-£26,808,259 -£41,971,905
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Employees
+76.5%
1,767 3,119
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Operating profit
+56.4%
-£15,768,608 -£6,874,986
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Profit before tax
+31.3%
-£22,066,103 -£15,163,646
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Wages
+33.8%
£4,048,096 £5,415,242
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