INSTOCK LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-05-09 (in 1y)
Last made up 2026-04-25
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£316K
-28.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£3M
-5% vs 2024
Employees
85
+1.2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£270K
-49.7% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- INSTOCK LTD 2018-06-21 → present
- INSTOCK DISPOSABLES LIMITED 1974-04-03 → 2018-06-21
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £32,282,109 | £33,176,928 | |
| Operating profit | £625,374 | £374,537 | |
| Profit before tax | £536,813 | £270,103 | |
| Net profit | £406,326 | £170,955 | |
| Cash | £441,885 | £316,367 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,383,394 | £3,892,297 | |
| Net assets | £3,568,648 | £3,389,603 | |
| Equity | £3,568,648 | £3,389,603 | |
| Average employees | 84 | 85 | |
| Wages | £2,202,458 | £2,412,279 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.9% | 1.1% | |
| Net margin | 1.3% | 0.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 14.3% | 9.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.48x | 1.46x | |
| Interest cover | 7.06x | 3.59x |
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
- Johnston Carmichael LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group's and parent company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- INSTOCK LTD · parent
- Jazzpower Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The trade and trading assets of Jazzpower Limited were hived up on 1 September 2023 to the parent company.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 11 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORR, Chris | Secretary | 2025-04-25 | — | — |
| HUDSON, Guy Nicholas | Director | 2009-07-15 | Feb 1964 | British |
| ORR, Chris | Director | 2023-08-29 | Oct 1982 | British |
| PAYNE, Michael | Director | 2014-04-01 | May 1980 | British |
| SWINBURNE, Jamie | Director | 2022-05-09 | Dec 1980 | British |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COWIE, Stephen | Secretary | 1993-10-08 | 2020-03-31 |
| FRASER, Ian Stuart | Secretary | — | 1991-12-02 |
| BURNETT & REID LLP | Corporate Secretary | 2020-03-31 | 2020-06-15 |
| CCW SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2020-06-15 | 2025-04-25 |
| COWIE, Stephen | Director | 1993-10-08 | 2020-03-31 |
| FORBES, Malcolm Nigel, Lord | Director | — | 2009-06-01 |
| HUDSON, Marta | Director | 2014-07-01 | 2023-03-31 |
| HUDSON, Peter Ian | Director | — | 2012-07-25 |
| HUDSON, Simon Ian | Director | 1993-10-08 | 2010-03-31 |
| MCLEAN, Robert | Director | — | 1992-03-23 |
| SCOTT, David | Director | 1989-08-11 | 2018-03-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Guy Nicholas Hudson | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 146 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-04-29 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-12-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-04-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-25 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2025-04-25 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-04-25 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-04-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-09-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-04-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-05-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-05-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-12-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-04-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-04-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-08-13 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with new address |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+2.8%
£32,282,109 £33,176,928
-
Cash
-28.4%
£441,885 £316,367
-
Net assets
-5%
£3,568,648 £3,389,603
-
Employees
+1.2%
84 85
-
Operating profit
-40.1%
£625,374 £374,537
-
Profit before tax
-49.7%
£536,813 £270,103
-
Wages
+9.5%
£2,202,458 £2,412,279
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