HPREF METS LONDON LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-05 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-01-22
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£25M
+20.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£105M
-2.9% vs 2023
Employees
309
-2.8% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£4M
+217.2% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £80,373,000 | £90,283,000 | |
| Operating profit | £18,941,000 | £25,257,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£3,153,000 | £3,696,000 | |
| Net profit | -£4,178,000 | £3,115,000 | |
| Cash | £20,623,000 | £24,765,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £161,654,000 | £458,247,000 | |
| Net assets | £107,915,000 | £104,829,000 | |
| Equity | £107,915,000 | £104,829,000 | |
| Average employees | 318 | 309 | |
| Wages | £9,807,000 | £10,375,000 |
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 | 23.6% | 28.0% | |
| Net margin | -5.2% | 3.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 11.7% | 5.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 77.1% | 78.0% | |
| Current ratio | 0.10x | 2.73x | |
| Interest cover | 0.85x | 1.14x |
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
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“A cashflow forecast has been prepared by Management which assumes a continued improvement in trading as demand from business and international travellers is expected to remain strong. The cashflow forecasts show that the Company is self-sufficient for 12 months from date of this report, generating substantially positive EBITDA and cash flows that will allow it to meet all obligations as they fall due.”
Group structure
- HPREF METS LONDON LTD · parent
- HPREF Mets Holding Ltd
- HPREF Mets London Investments Limited
- HPREF METS Birmingham Limited
Significant events
- “Dividends of 6,200,000 were distributed for the year ended 31 December 2024.”
- “The refinancing that was completed in 2024 provides a longer runway for exit and potential value-add projects.”
- “On 2 October 2024 the Company entered into a revised loan agreement with Aareal Bank for 322,700,000 to replace the existing facilities of 286,200,000.”
- “During September 2022 the Company exercised its option to extend (first extension) the above loan facilities for a further year, until September 2023. At this date there was a further option to extend until September 2024 and that option was exercised.”
- “On 26th June 2024 the share capital of the Company was reduced from 166,960,650 to 100,397,100 by cancelling and extinguishing 66,563,550 ordinary shares of 1 each and the share premium reserve of the Company was reduced from 14,404,718 to 0.”
- “On 21 January 2025 the remaining loan to HPREF Mets Investment Limited for deep discounted bonds of 3,040,000 was converted to ordinary share capital.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABDULAZIZ, Rabea | Director | 2025-01-10 | Feb 1988 | Austrian |
| RUGARD, Jonathan | Director | 2025-01-10 | Aug 1988 | French |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCOMB, Benjamin John | Director | 2019-08-30 | 2020-09-25 |
| POWER, Charles Richard | Director | 2017-09-07 | 2025-01-10 |
| THAMMANNA, Subbash Chandra | Director | 2017-09-07 | 2019-08-30 |
| WEBB, Nicholas James | Director | 2020-09-25 | 2025-01-10 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Nicholas Henry Weber | Individual | Appoints directors | 2019-10-31 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 76 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-05-08 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2026-04-16 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-12-10 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-09-19 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-08 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2026-05-08 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2026-05-08 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2026-05-08 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-04-16 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2026-04-16 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2026-04-16 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2026-04-16 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-03-25 | RP01PSC01 | miscellaneous | Legacy | |
| 2026-02-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-12-10 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2025-12-10 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2025-12-10 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2025-12-10 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-09-26 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2025-09-19 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2025-09-19 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2025-09-19 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2025-09-19 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-07-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 20
- Capital events
- 9
- 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
+12.3%
£80,373,000 £90,283,000
-
Cash
+20.1%
£20,623,000 £24,765,000
-
Net assets
-2.9%
£107,915,000 £104,829,000
-
Employees
-2.8%
318 309
-
Operating profit
+33.3%
£18,941,000 £25,257,000
-
Profit before tax
+217.2%
-£3,153,000 £3,696,000
-
Wages
+5.8%
£9,807,000 £10,375,000
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