THE VALLEY PRINTING COMPANY, LIMITED

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

• Turnover

  -1.2%

  £14,627,640 → £14,448,609

• Cash

  -0.5%

  £9,223,884 → £9,180,136

• Net assets

  +10.3%

  £11,265,990 → £12,422,910

  highest in 6 filed years

• Employees

  +30.2%

  43 → 56

  highest in 6 filed years

• Operating profit

  -26.7%

  £2,015,197 → £1,476,804

  first positive since 2020

• Profit before tax

  -22.7%

  £2,472,121 → £1,912,092

  first positive since 2020

• Wages

  +3.5%

  £2,786,250 → £2,884,729

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Auker Rhodes Professional Services LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“These financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. The directors, having considered the financial position of the Company for a period of at least twelve months from the date of signing these financial statements, have no reason to believe that a material uncertainty exists that may cast doubt about the ability of the Company to continue as a going concern.”

Significant events

• “The business was blessed with another excellent year in 2024, following on from the record breaking year in 2023. The larger projects in 2023 that created significant profits were replaced with new business throughout the 2024 financial year and this helped us maintain an excellent level of profitability.”
• “The company started to appreciate the benefits of the new machinery purchased in November 2023, enjoying record productivity within the Harden facility, with barely any print work subcontracted during the year (because of capacity issues) and a decrease in power consumption of circa £ 40,000 because of new technologies.”
• “The Valley Printing Company Limited delivered a profit before tax of £ 1.9 Million. Once again, the core print business increased in size to around £ 6 million of the total turnover which was at £ 14.5 million, a very slight decrease to the year before.”
• “The business has decided to award a 100% dividend to shareholders as an appreciation of their continued support this year.”
• “As has been reported over the last two years, global instability proves to remain the strongest risk we face as a business. The continued situation in Ukraine and the Middle East remain a stubborn issue with regards to some of our raw materials and price volatility comes with this.”
• “The business has seen compound rises in labour costs of 20% over the last two years due to minimum wage and NI increases and we have had no other choice than to pass these costs on to our customers.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

2

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.