IMPORTO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-26 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-12
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£15M
+90.8% vs 2023
Net assets
£20M
+31.9% vs 2023
Employees
19
-9.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£6M
-5.2% vs 2023
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 | £86,515,000 | £81,468,000 | |
| Operating profit | £6,791,000 | £5,794,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £6,460,000 | £6,122,000 | |
| Net profit | £4,941,000 | £4,720,000 | |
| Cash | £7,738,000 | £14,767,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £14,799,000 | £19,519,000 | |
| Net assets | £14,799,000 | £19,519,000 | |
| Equity | £14,799,000 | £19,519,000 | |
| Average employees | 21 | 19 | |
| Wages | £468,000 | £484,000 |
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 | 7.8% | 7.1% | |
| Net margin | 5.7% | 5.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 45.9% | 29.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 38.3% | 40.3% | |
| Current ratio | 2.60x | 2.48x | |
| Interest cover | 20.52x | 30.66x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Johnston Carmichael LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which the Directors believe to be appropriate, notwithstanding the significant challenges posed by the current global economic climate and inflationary pressures, for the following reasons. 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 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
- IMPORTO LIMITED · parent
- Tilbury Coldstore Limited 100%
- Tilbury Transport Limited 100%
- Farmhouse Test Kitchen Limited 100%
- Mostell Meats Limited 100%
- Border Sausage Limited 100%
- Empire Proteins Limited 100%
- Cheshunt Meats Limited 100%
- Dalfibble Limited 100%
- Ayrshire Limited 100%
- Baraka Products Limited 100%
- James Aitken & Sons (Meat Products) Limited 100%
- Locharbriggs Coldstore Limited 100%
- Harlow Meats Limited 100%
- Greystone Trading Limited 100%
- Fenton Barns (Scotland) Limited 100%
- Borders Gourmet Limited 100%
- PW Foods Limited 100%
- Mostell Limited 100%
- Kelso Trading Limited 100%
- Mostell Logistics Limited 100%
- Ridgway Trading Limited 100%
- Nith Trading Limited 100%
- Foodpro (Manufacturing) Limited 100%
- Stevensons Direct Limited 100%
- The Locharbriggs Bacon Company Limited 100%
- Halls Products Limited 100%
- Crawick Foods Limited 100%
- Sanquhar Foods Limited 100%
- Urr Water Foods Limited 100%
- Wanlockhead Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Subsequent to the year end, the following subsidiaries of the company were dissolved. Ayrshire Limited, Cheshunt Meats Limited, Crawick Foods Limited, Dalfibble Foods Limited, Empire Proteins Limited, Farmhouse Test Kitchen Limited, Greystone Trading Limited, Harlow Meats Limited, James Aitken & Sons (Meat Products) Limited, Kelso Trading Limited, Nith Trading Limited, Ridgway Trading Limited, Sanquhar Foods Limited, Stevensons Direct Limited, The Locharbriggs Bacon Company Limited, Tilbury Coldstore Limited, Tilbury Transport Limited, Urr Water Foods Limited and Wanlockhead Limited. All companies listed above were dormant and no longer trading.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GODFREY, Wayne | Director | 2013-06-13 | Oct 1971 | British |
| WOOD, Thomas | Director | 2024-01-08 | Sep 1964 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOWIE, Allan Russell | Director | 2022-06-06 | 2023-11-30 |
| CLARK, Nicholas Rodger | Director | 2020-11-02 | 2022-06-03 |
| GODFREY, Susan Mary | Director | 2013-06-13 | 2018-06-11 |
| HILL, Alan George | Director | 2015-07-16 | 2020-11-06 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Browns Food Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 39 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-02-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-06-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-12-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-01-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-11-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-11-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2019-12-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-09-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
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
-
Turnover
-5.8%
£86,515,000 £81,468,000
-
Cash
+90.8%
£7,738,000 £14,767,000
-
Net assets
+31.9%
£14,799,000 £19,519,000
-
Employees
-9.5%
21 19
-
Operating profit
-14.7%
£6,791,000 £5,794,000
-
Profit before tax
-5.2%
£6,460,000 £6,122,000
-
Wages
+3.4%
£468,000 £484,000
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