EAST AFRICA COFFEE CO. LLP
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-28 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2026-01-14
Watchouts
Cash
£520K
-26.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£89M
+52.6% vs 2023
Employees
987
-12.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£11M
-60.4% vs 2023
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.
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- EAST AFRICA COFFEE CO. LLP 2015-02-12 → present
- COFFEE DOMAIN LLP 2015-01-19 → 2015-02-12
- DORMANS COFFEE LLP 2014-12-11 → 2015-01-19
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Unclassified median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £82,398,814 | £140,337,287 | |
| Operating profit | -£6,562,639 | -£10,529,281 | |
| Profit before tax | -£6,562,639 | -£10,529,281 | |
| Net profit | -£7,224,611 | -£11,504,818 | |
| Cash | £707,191 | £519,644 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £60,365,456 | £91,005,189 | |
| Net assets | £58,325,426 | £88,988,139 | |
| Equity | £13,919,941 | £9,516,679 | |
| Average employees | 1,128 | 987 | |
| Wages | £5,407,709 | £4,138,621 |
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 | -8.0% | -7.5% | |
| Net margin | -8.8% | -8.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | -10.9% | -11.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 20.7% | 19.7% | |
| Current ratio | 4.28x | 4.72x | |
| Interest cover | -1.43x | -1.70x |
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
- UK-adopted international accounting standards
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- S&W Audit
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“With no material uncertainties regarding our ongoing business, combined with the ongoing support from our members, management have no intention to cease trading. We therefore believe there are sufficient grounds to prepare these financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- EAST AFRICA COFFEE CO. LLP · parent
- East Africa Export Co. LLC 100%
- East Africa MM Co. LLC 100%
- Bombax Coffee Holdings Pte Ltd 100%
- Coffee Domain Pte Ltd 100%
- C. Dorman Sez Ltd 100%
- C Dorman Rwanda Ltd 100%
- Central Kenya Coffee Mill Ltd 100%
- Coffee Management Services Ltd 100%
- CMS Mills Ltd 100%
- Coffee Management Services Ltd 100%
- Dormans Coffee Limited 100%
- Dorman Tanzania Limited 100%
- Gourmet Coffee Ltd 100%
- Mawenzi Coffee Exporters Ltd 100%
- Sustainable Management Services 100%
- Tutunze Kahawa Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On April 1, 2025, the ECOM Group entered into a joint venture with Westrock Coffee International LLC that combined their Rwandan export operations. This strategic partnership allows the wider ECOM group to scale its operations in Rwanda, improve profitability, and strengthen it's ability to provide smallholder farmers and their families the ability to advance their quality of life and economic well-being. As a result of this arrangement, the LLP transferred its ownership of C Dorman Rwanda Ltd to ETC Holdings SA (ECOM Group) as at that date.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECOM AGROINDUSTRIAL CORP. LIMITED | Corporate Llp Designated Member | 2016-01-21 | — | — |
| VERB FOUNDATION | Corporate Llp Designated Member | 2016-05-01 | — | — |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECOM AGROTRADE HOLDINGS LIMITED | Corporate Llp Designated Member | 2014-12-11 | 2016-05-01 |
| ECOM AGROTRADE LIMITED | Corporate Llp Designated Member | 2014-12-11 | 2016-01-21 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecom Agroindustrial Corp. Limited | Corporate entity | voting-rights-75-to-100-percent-limited-liability-partnership | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-10-17 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 39 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-21 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-28 | LLPSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement limited liability partnership | |
| 2025-10-17 | LLPSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control limited liability partnership | |
| 2025-10-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-01-28 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-01-17 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-01-17 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-01-14 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-06-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-03-26 | LLCH02 | officers | Change corporate member limited liability partnership with name change date | |
| 2021-01-15 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-11-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-01-16 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-07-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2019-01-22 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2018-08-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2018-07-13 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- 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
+70.3%
£82,398,814 £140,337,287
-
Cash
-26.5%
£707,191 £519,644
-
Net assets
+52.6%
£58,325,426 £88,988,139
-
Employees
-12.5%
1,128 987
-
Operating profit
-60.4%
-£6,562,639 -£10,529,281
-
Profit before tax
-60.4%
-£6,562,639 -£10,529,281
-
Wages
-23.5%
£5,407,709 £4,138,621
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