KOLBUS UK LIMITED

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  1 PSC ceased in last 24 months

  Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.

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

  +2.5%

  £6,304,410 → £6,465,022

• Cash

  -51%

  £806,336 → £395,074

• Net assets

  -10.1%

  -£1,617,959 → -£1,781,864

• Employees

  -13.3%

  45 → 39

• Operating profit

  +78.3%

  -£3,347,618 → -£727,604

• Profit before tax

  +93.6%

  -£3,429,922 → -£219,563

• Wages

  -4%

  £1,765,548 → £1,695,506

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.

1. KOLBUS UK LIMITED 1993-01-01 → present
2. SCHULER SALES & SERVICE LIMITED 1969-06-19 → 1993-01-01

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Mercer & Hole LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The directors have reviewed forecasts for the twelve months following the date of signing of these financial statements and are satisfied the group will remain a going concern.”

Group structure

1. KOLBUS UK LIMITED · parent
   1. Autobox Machinery Ltd 100% · England · Dormant holding company
   2. Kolbus Autobox Limited 100% · England · Design and manufacture of corrugated packaging machinery
   3. Kolbus France SAS 100% · France · Supply and servicing of book binding machinery
   4. BCS Mexico & Latin America S.A de C.V 95% · Mexico · Dormant

Significant events

• “The parent company Kolbus GmbH & Co. KG was purchased in January 2025, subsequently, Kolbus UK Ltd has received confirmation of the full support of the new parent company Kolbus Group GmbH & Co. KG.”
• “Kolbus Autobox Ltd was liquidated in 2025 and the process for the liquidation of Kolbus France SAS will begin in early 2026.”
• “As of 19th July 2024 it was announced that Kolbus GmbH Co. & KG in Rahden, Germany, had entered a state of Preliminary Self Administration.”
• “A resulting decision to close the Kolbus Autobox Ltd manufacturing facility in Houghton Regis, UK and relocate production to the ultimate parents facility in Rahden was made to improve utilisation of the main manufacturing site and the Kolbus Autobox Ltd company and Autobox Machinery Ltd closure began in September 2024 and was completed in December 2025. Subsequently Kolbus Autobox Ltd entered a Members Voluntary Liquidation which was completed in December 2025.”
• “An investor in the parent company was approved on 1st January 2025, Max Valier Holding GmbH created the new parent Kolbus Group GmbH & Co. KG and the ownership of Kolbus UK Ltd and its subsidiaries was transferred in its entirety to Kolbus Group GmbH & Co. KG.”
• “A review of the future of Kolbus France SAS is progressing with plans to consider closing the subsidiary and utilising a French Sales and Service agency to represent Kolbus Group GmbH & Co. KG within the Country.”

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

Filings

9

last 12 months

Capital events

1

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

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