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Next accounts due

2026-09-30 (in 4mo)

Last filed for 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-03-28

Overdue

Watchouts

1 item

Cash

Latest balance sheet

Net assets

-£13M

+32.6% vs 2023

Employees

69

-23.3% vs 2023

Profit before tax

£6M

+173.8% vs 2023

Watchouts

Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating

Name history

Renamed 2 times since incorporation

  1. LIPTON TEAS AND INFUSIONS UK LIMITED 2024-05-24 → present
  2. EKATERRA UK LIMITED 2021-10-27 → 2024-05-24
  3. UNILEVER TEA MSO UK LIMITED 2021-03-15 → 2021-10-27

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31

Metric Trend 2023-12-312024-12-31
Turnover £100,152,164£111,665,500
Operating profit -£7,789,284£6,196,121
Profit before tax -£8,378,776£6,187,123
Net profit -£8,368,611£6,161,656
Cash
Total assets less current liabilities -£18,854,331-£12,344,611
Net assets -£18,925,995-£12,764,339
Equity -£18,925,995-£12,764,339
Average employees 9069
Wages £10,791,011£4,713,713

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 2023-12-312024-12-31
Operating margin -7.8%5.5%
Net margin -8.4%5.5%
Return on capital employed 41.3%-50.2%
Current ratio 0.76x0.91x
Interest cover -12.60x10.23x

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 101
Reporting scope
Standalone (parent only)
Auditor
Ballards LLP
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“Notwithstanding the Company's net current liabilities of £13,061,527 as at 31 December 2024 (2023: £19,004,980), the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which the Directors consider to be appropriate for the following reasons. The principal activity of the Company is trading of tea in the United Kingdom (UK). The Company meets its day to day working capital requirements through a cash pooling arrangement and from intercompany loans with the Lipton Group headed by Cuppa Topco B.V. The Directors have performed a going concern assessment which indicates that, taking account of reasonably possible downsides, the Company will have sufficient funds, through its participation in the Lipton Group cash pooling facility and funding from its fellow subsidiary company and in-house bank, Ekaterra Group Finance B.V., to meet its liabilities as they fall due during the going concern assessment period, which is at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements.”

Significant events

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

3 active · 8 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
BRISCOE, Jonathan Director 2025-03-27 Feb 1984 British
HUGHES, Luke Jonathan Director 2024-07-01 Mar 1987 British
SIDDIQUI, Zohaib Ahmed Director 2022-10-01 Oct 1986 Pakistani
Show 8 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
EARLEY, James Oliver Secretary 2021-03-15 2021-10-27
PLATTS, Sophia Secretary 2021-10-27 2024-07-04
HOLDSWORTH, Amy Louise Mercia Director 2021-11-09 2023-04-14
KING, Hannah Lucy Director 2021-10-27 2024-04-30
LEEK, Robert David Director 2021-03-15 2021-10-27
MCNAMARA, Liam James Director 2023-05-26 2024-12-31
MOLONEY, Fiachra Director 2021-10-27 2023-02-03
SHARMA, Ashima Director 2021-03-15 2021-10-27

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Ekaterra Holdco Uk Limited Corporate entity Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors 2021-03-15 Active

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 45 total filings

Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution

  • 2024-05-24 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
Date Type Category Description
2025-08-14 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2025-05-23 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2025-04-30 CH01 officers Change person director company with change date PDF
2025-03-20 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2025-01-16 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2024-12-20 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2024-11-08 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2024-07-23 CH01 officers Change person director company with change date PDF
2024-07-22 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2024-07-04 TM02 officers Termination secretary company with name termination date PDF
2024-06-24 PSC05 persons-with-significant-control Change to a person with significant control PDF
2024-06-05 CH01 officers Change person director company with change date PDF
2024-06-05 CH03 officers Change person secretary company with change date PDF
2024-05-24 CERTNM change-of-name Certificate change of name company PDF
2024-05-24 AD01 address Change registered office address company with date old address new address PDF
2024-05-04 RP04AP01 officers Second filing of director appointment with name PDF
2024-05-02 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2024-03-29 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2023-07-26 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2023-06-01 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
2

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
0

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

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

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