STAR REFRIGERATION LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-01 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-05-18
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£10M
+16.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£11M
+12.6% vs 2023
Employees
442
+13.9% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£2M
-9.6% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £69,678,000 | £75,078,000 | |
| Operating profit | £2,073,000 | £1,718,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,118,000 | £1,915,000 | |
| Net profit | £1,626,000 | £1,383,000 | |
| Cash | £8,575,000 | £10,024,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £11,081,000 | £12,340,000 | |
| Net assets | £9,880,000 | £11,128,000 | |
| Equity | £9,880,000 | £11,128,000 | |
| Average employees | 388 | 442 | |
| Wages | £21,531,000 | £24,119,000 |
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 | 3.0% | 2.3% | |
| Net margin | 2.3% | 1.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 18.7% | 13.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 65.3% | 65.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.54x | 1.54x | |
| Interest cover | 86.38x | 572.67x |
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
- French Duncan LLP, trading as AAB
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors have considered a number of potential scenarios, and are confident that the Group has adequate resources to continue trading as a going concern.”
Group structure
- STAR REFRIGERATION LIMITED · parent
- Starfrost (UK) Limited 1%
- Star M&E Solutions Limited 1%
- Azane Inc 1%
- Star Renewable Energy Limited 1%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BARR, Maurice James | Director | 2017-01-09 | May 1964 | British |
| BROWN, Ben | Director | 2016-09-20 | Sep 1975 | British |
| BROWN, Lewis, Dr | Director | 2018-09-18 | Nov 1987 | British |
| DOUGLAS, Angus | Director | 2017-04-10 | Jun 1970 | British |
| LAMB, Robert Andrew, Dr | Director | 2009-12-14 | Jul 1973 | British |
| PEARSON, Andrew Brash, Dr. | Director | 1993-02-15 | Nov 1962 | British |
| PEARSON, David Forbes | Director | 2020-06-23 | Jan 1973 | British |
| RAE, Nadia Francesca | Director | 2020-06-23 | Dec 1985 | British |
| ROWELL, John Robert | Director | — | Jul 1948 | British |
| WARD, James Thomas | Director | 2015-12-15 | Jan 1976 | British |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOLSTER, James David | Secretary | 2005-07-01 | 2018-04-25 |
| MAUCHLINE, Tracey | Secretary | 1997-02-24 | 1999-05-21 |
| PATERSON, Hamish Mcintyre | Secretary | — | 1991-09-27 |
| STUART, Graham David Alexander | Secretary | 1998-02-23 | 2005-06-30 |
| BROWN, Anthony Harold | Director | — | 2016-12-13 |
| BROWN, James, Dr | Director | — | 1997-06-23 |
| BUCHANAN, David Elliott | Director | — | 1999-12-18 |
| CAMPBELL, William | Director | 2015-12-15 | 2016-12-05 |
| FIRTH, David Marshall | Director | 1994-10-10 | 1997-06-23 |
| FRASER, Charles John | Director | 2011-01-01 | 2015-12-15 |
| HARRAGHY, Peter Gerald | Director | 1991-01-01 | 1999-02-26 |
| KERR, Gordon William, Finance Director | Director | 2015-06-01 | 2016-07-31 |
| MOWAT, Alexander David | Director | 1991-01-01 | 1999-08-02 |
| PEARSON, Stephen Forbes, Dr | Director | — | 2019-03-26 |
| STUART, Graham David Alexander | Director | 1991-01-01 | 2015-12-15 |
| THOMPSON, Stephen Stuart | Director | 2011-03-28 | 2014-08-15 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 215 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2019-04-16 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-06-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-04-09 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-06-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-06-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-05-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-05-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-05-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-07-27 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2021-05-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-05-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-07-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-07-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-07-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-05-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-01-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2019-07-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2019-05-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-04-16 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 1
- 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
+7.7%
£69,678,000 £75,078,000
-
Cash
+16.9%
£8,575,000 £10,024,000
-
Net assets
+12.6%
£9,880,000 £11,128,000
-
Employees
+13.9%
388 442
-
Operating profit
-17.1%
£2,073,000 £1,718,000
-
Profit before tax
-9.6%
£2,118,000 £1,915,000
-
Wages
+12%
£21,531,000 £24,119,000
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