FRANK ARMITT & SON LIMITED
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Cash
£4.6m
+9.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£3.9m
-1.5% lowest in 3 filed years
Employees
39
0% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£231k
-309.9% lowest in 3 filed years
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £60,524,871 | £54,531,863 | £48,755,407 | -10.6% | |
| Operating profit | £717,042 | -£47,852 | -£316,179 | -560.7% | |
| Profit before tax | £799,515 | £110,047 | -£230,986 | -309.9% | |
| Net profit | £528,596 | £47,370 | -£230,986 | -587.6% | |
| Cash | £5,003,478 | £4,202,262 | £4,587,394 | +9.2% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,536,308 | £4,206,355 | £4,263,629 | +1.4% | |
| Net assets | £4,386,901 | £3,994,271 | £3,934,464 | -1.5% | |
| Equity | £4,386,901 | £3,994,271 | £3,934,464 | -1.5% | |
| Average employees | 40 | 39 | 39 | 0% | |
| Wages | £1,499,114 | £1,473,026 | £1,541,906 | +4.7% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £186,046 | £199,351 | £199,303 | 0% | |
| Directors' pension contributions | £50,673 | £31,435 | £172,494 | +448.7% |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.2% | -0.1% | -0.6% | |
| Net margin | 0.9% | 0.1% | -0.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 15.8% | -1.1% | -7.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 50.9% | 57.5% | 54.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.80x | 1.58x | 1.58x |
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
- DJH Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the group and parent company have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- FRANK ARMITT & SON LIMITED · parent
- Widnes Steel Storage Limited 100%
- North West Stevedores Limited 100%
- Mersey Bunkering Limited 100%
- Advanced Emission Solutions Limited 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEEDHOUSE, Allan | Secretary | 2002-02-26 | — | British |
| GRAY, Charles William | Director | 2006-09-13 | Sep 1966 | British |
| HOLDEN, Paul | Director | 2017-05-10 | Aug 1967 | British |
| KRISTIANSEN, Alan Sverre | Director | 2020-09-23 | May 1978 | British |
| SEEDHOUSE, Allan | Director | 2006-02-13 | Jun 1962 | British |
| SEEDHOUSE, Paula Jayne | Director | 1993-11-01 | Oct 1962 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARTINDALE, Kenneth Horace Ralph | Secretary | — | 2002-02-26 |
| ARMITT, Christine | Director | — | 1992-08-29 |
| ARMITT, Michael Kaye | Director | — | 2012-03-19 |
| ARMITT, Nellie Isabel | Director | — | 2004-08-03 |
| BURNS, Neil | Director | 2009-09-14 | 2016-05-27 |
| CHAPPELLS, John | Director | — | 1998-01-10 |
| CLARKSON, Jacqueline Kay | Director | 1993-11-01 | 2001-06-03 |
| LITTLER, Colin Joseph | Director | — | 1995-02-22 |
| LYNAGH, Catherine Elizabeth | Director | 2014-08-28 | 2017-12-28 |
| MARSHALL, Nicholas John | Director | 2015-07-01 | 2018-12-24 |
| MARTINDALE, Kenneth Horace Ralph | Director | — | 2006-09-13 |
| MCINTYRE, John William | Director | 1995-06-14 | 2013-12-26 |
| SHANAHAN, Stephen William | Director | 1993-11-01 | 2012-09-14 |
| WHITFIELD, Victoria Jane | Director | 2020-09-23 | 2021-09-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Paula Jayne Seedhouse | Individual | Shares 50–75% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 136 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-12-14 MA Memorandum articles
- 2023-12-09 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-12-09 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-05-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-09-19 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-05-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-05-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-12-14 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-12-09 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-12-09 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-09-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-05-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-05-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-05-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-04-27 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part release with charge number | |
| 2021-04-06 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part release with charge number | |
| 2020-12-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
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.