WRK MERGER HOLDING SUB LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-24 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2026-01-10
Watchouts
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£580M
Equity attributable
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£114M
Period ending 2024-12-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-09-30 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | £1,109 | -£314,862,705 | |
| Profit before tax | -£647,933 | -£114,223,839 | |
| Net profit | -£505,335 | -£113,983,567 | |
| Cash | £10,258 | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £895,326,105 | £579,742,315 | |
| Net assets | £895,326,105 | £579,742,315 | |
| Equity | £895,326,105 | £579,742,315 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| Wages | — | — |
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 | 2023-09-30 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | 0.0% | -54.3% | |
| Current ratio | 0.01x | 0.03x | |
| Interest cover | 0.00x | -327.28x |
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
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Company is an intermediate holding company and is part of the Smurfit Westrock Plc group (the 'Group'), and its ability to continue as a going concern is linked in with the ability of the Group to continue as a going concern.”
Group structure
- WRK MERGER HOLDING SUB LIMITED · parent
- Multi Packaging Solutions Global Holdings Limited* 100%
- Smurfit Westrock Consumer Packaging Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Bornem NV 100%
- Chesapeake Brussels NV 0.033%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Gent NV 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions France SA 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions SAS 100%
- Multi Packaging Solution Montargis SAS 100%
- Berry's Printing Works(Westport) Limited 100%
- Berry's (Holdings) Ltd 100%
- Field Boxmore Ireland Limited 100%
- Field Boxmore Label Systems Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Dublin Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Limerick Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Westport Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Bialystok Holdings sp zoo 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Bialystok sp zoo 100%
- Field Packaging Germany GmbH 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Duren GmbH 100%
- Field Boxmore II Limited 100%
- Smurfit Westrock Packaging Machinery Limited 100%
- GCM Print & Packaging Service Limited 100%
- Lithoprint Holdings Limited 100%
- Label Research Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Acquisitions 1 Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Acquisitions 2 Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Belfast Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Bristol Limited 100%
- Chesapeake Plastics Packaging (Kunshan) CoLimited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions (Kunshan) Co Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions GB Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Hillington Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions NI Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions UK Limited 100%
- William W Cleland Holdings Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Arbroath Limited 100%
- Presentation Products Group Limited 100%
- Presentation Products Holdings Limited 100%
- Presentation Products Scotland Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Asia Sourcing Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Asia Holdings Limited 100%
- Guangzhou Multi Packaging Solutions Limited 100%
- Kunshan Multi Packaging Solutions Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Leasing Limited 100%
- BP Media Limited 100%
- AJS Group Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Featherstone Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Littlehampton Limited 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Holdings 1 GmbH 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Holdings 2 GmbH 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Leasing GmbH 100%
- Smurfit Westrock Melle GmbH 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Services GmbH 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Consumer GmbH 100%
- Multi Packaging Solutions Hong Kong Limited 100%
- Field Boxmore Bourne (Holdings) Limited 100%
- Field Boxmore Bedford Limited 100%
- Field Boxmore Bristol (Holdings) Limited 100%
- Field Boxmore GB Limited 100%
- First Carton Group Limited 100%
- First Carton Thyne Limited 100%
- Field First Limited 100%
- Field Group and Pension Trustee Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On July 5, 2024, pursuant to the transaction agreement, dated as of September 12, 2023, among Smurfit WestRock plc (...), (i) Smurfit WestRock acquired Smurfit Kappa Group plc by means of a scheme of arrangement under the Companies Act 2014 of Ireland, and (ii) Merger Sub merged with and into WestRock Company, with WestRock Company continuing as the surviving entity (collectively, the "Combination").”
- “During the period the company underwent a capital reduction whereby the nominal value of the shares was reduced to $127,238. The value of the reduction was credited to distributable reserves.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 3 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CULLEN, Emma | Director | 2025-07-28 | Sep 1971 | Irish |
| HOWLETT, Robert | Director | 2025-07-28 | Sep 1974 | British |
Show 3 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAXWELL, Kevin Alden | Director | 2017-02-09 | 2021-11-11 |
| NICKERSON, Steven Billings | Director | 2021-11-11 | 2025-07-28 |
| WRIGHT, Keith Charles | Director | 2017-01-12 | 2017-02-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smurfit Westrock Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2024-07-05 | Active |
| Westrock Company | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2017-01-12 | Ceased 2024-07-05 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 44 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-06-06 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-13 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-13 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-13 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-12 | PSC09 | persons-with-significant-control | Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-01-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-10-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-08 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2024-06-06 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2024-06-06 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-06-06 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2024-06-06 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2024-01-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-12 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-09-12 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-07-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 2
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 1
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 2023-09-30