LIPTON TEAS AND INFUSIONS UK LIMITED
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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
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
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Confirmation statement overdue
Due 2026-03-28.
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- LIPTON TEAS AND INFUSIONS UK LIMITED 2024-05-24 → present
- EKATERRA UK LIMITED 2021-10-27 → 2024-05-24
- UNILEVER TEA MSO UK LIMITED 2021-03-15 → 2021-10-27
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 | £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 | 90 | 69 | |
| 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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -7.8% | 5.5% | |
| Net margin | -8.4% | 5.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 41.3% | -50.2% | |
| Current ratio | 0.76x | 0.91x | |
| Interest cover | -12.60x | 10.23x |
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
- “In October 2024, the company has entered into corporate guarantee and indemnity agreement as a guarantor for its fellow subsidiary, Lipton Manufacturing UK Limited, in relation to a hire purchase transaction undertaken by that subsidiary, amounting to £11,906,250.”
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 | |
| 2025-04-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-03-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 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 | |
| 2024-07-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-04 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-24 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-06-05 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-06-05 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2024-05-24 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2024-05-24 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-05-04 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2024-05-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
+11.5%
£100,152,164 £111,665,500
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
+32.6%
-£18,925,995 -£12,764,339
-
Employees
-23.3%
90 69
-
Operating profit
+179.5%
-£7,789,284 £6,196,121
-
Profit before tax
+173.8%
-£8,378,776 £6,187,123
-
Wages
-56.3%
£10,791,011 £4,713,713
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