MOORECO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-31 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2026-01-17
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£36M
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
-£74M
Equity attributable
Employees
116
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£2M
Period ending 2024-12-31
Name history
Renamed 3 times since incorporation
- MOORECO LIMITED 2025-01-16 → present
- PORTALS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 2021-03-10 → 2025-01-16
- MOORECO LIMITED 2018-01-31 → 2021-03-10
- NEWCO2018 1 LIMITED 2018-01-19 → 2018-01-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-02-25 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £24,628,000 | £22,251,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£3,262,000 | £4,286,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£7,036,000 | -£2,442,000 | |
| Net profit | -£3,419,000 | -£3,369,000 | |
| Cash | £17,454,000 | £35,957,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £41,778,000 | £44,531,000 | |
| Net assets | -£70,182,000 | -£73,544,000 | |
| Equity | -£70,182,000 | -£73,544,000 | |
| Average employees | 152 | 116 | |
| Wages | £7,346,000 | £4,392,000 |
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 | 2024-02-25 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -13.2% | 19.3% | |
| Net margin | -13.9% | -15.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | -7.8% | 9.6% | |
| Current ratio | 4.71x | 20.79x | |
| Interest cover | -0.27x | 0.42x |
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
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“As such, the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, the Directors have continued to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- MOORECO LIMITED · parent
- SennaCo Limited
- GodivaCo Limited
- WhickerCo Limited
- MooreCo Italy Limited
- Portals Technology S.r.l.
- Portals Paper S.A. De C.V.
Significant events
- “On 31 December 2024, the Portals Paper Ltd business was sold to the German Speciality Papermaker, Drewsen Spezialpapiere Gmbh & co KG. The Portals business has now been classified as a discontinued operation and the prior year comparatives have been updated. Following the disposal of the Portals operation, the Group will focus on maximising revenue from the remaining Overton assets retained by the Group.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 11 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATWAL, Aaron Rai | Director | 2023-08-04 | May 1989 | British |
| HOLLIDAY, Ross, Dr | Director | 2018-03-29 | Jun 1978 | British |
| PRIESTLEY, William De Bretton | Director | 2018-01-19 | Apr 1968 | British |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHILD, Colin Charles | Director | 2018-03-29 | 2020-04-21 |
| DAYAN, Daniel Alexander | Director | 2020-05-15 | 2022-01-17 |
| ECKFORD, Keith Graham | Director | 2019-01-18 | 2020-01-08 |
| GROVER, Jason | Director | 2018-06-27 | 2019-08-05 |
| JONES, Timothy William | Director | 2018-03-29 | 2020-06-24 |
| LEWIS, Rebecca | Director | 2024-02-22 | 2024-12-31 |
| NASH, Andrew Simon | Director | 2023-08-04 | 2024-08-15 |
| RANCON, Jean-Baptiste | Director | 2019-08-28 | 2024-02-22 |
| RANCON, Jean-Baptiste | Director | 2018-03-29 | 2019-01-18 |
| WHEELER, Laura Jane | Director | 2018-03-29 | 2024-02-22 |
| WILSON, Owen Henry | Director | 2018-01-19 | 2023-08-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 69 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-01-16 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-01-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-16 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2025-01-15 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-01-15 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2025-01-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-08-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-09-05 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2023-08-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-04-28 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-04-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
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
FY2024 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2024-02-25