TRIFAST PLC
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Cash
£32m
+33.7% vs 2025
Net assets
£116m
-0.1% vs 2025
Employees
1,020
-13.3% vs 2025
Profit before tax
£57k
-98.8% vs 2025
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2026-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2025-03-31 | 2026-03-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £223,466,000 | £208,374,000 | -6.8% | |
| Operating profit | £9,427,000 | £4,238,000 | -55% | |
| Profit before tax | £4,928,000 | £57,000 | -98.8% | |
| Net profit | £1,040,000 | -£982,000 | -194.4% | |
| Cash | £24,258,000 | £32,425,000 | +33.7% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £182,479,000 | £187,093,000 | +2.5% | |
| Net assets | £115,721,000 | £115,622,000 | -0.1% | |
| Equity | £115,721,000 | £115,622,000 | -0.1% | |
| Average employees | 1,176 | 1,020 | -13.3% | |
| Wages | £41,844,000 | £37,737,000 | -9.8% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £977,000 | £1,116,000 | +14.2% | |
| Directors' pension contributions | £12,000 | £15,000 | +25% | |
| Highest paid director | £756,000 | £449,000 | -40.6% |
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 | 2025-03-31 | 2026-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 4.2% | 2.0% | |
| Net margin | 0.5% | -0.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 5.2% | 2.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 48.3% | 48.2% | |
| Current ratio | 3.65x | 4.19x | |
| Interest cover | 1.97x | 0.98x |
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.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- TRIFAST PLC 1994-01-14 → present
- TRIFAST INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 1985-06-06 → 1994-01-14
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and therefore continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting”
Group structure
- TRIFAST PLC · parent
- Trifast Overseas Holdings Ltd 100%
- Trifast Holdings B.V. 100%
- TR Fastenings Ltd 100%
- TR Southern Fasteners Limited 100%
- TR Holland B.V. 100%
- Lancaster Fastener Company Ltd 100%
- TR Fastenings AB 100%
- TR Hungary Kft 100%
- TR Italy SPA 100%
- VIC Sp. z o.o. 100%
- TR Germany GmbH 100%
- Precision Technology Supplies Ltd 100%
- TR Fastenings España - Ingeniería Industrial, S.L. 100%
- TR Asia Investment Holdings Pte Ltd 100%
- TR Formac Pte Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “Project Ignite... cost of £6.0m in relation to the implementation of its cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system (Microsoft Dynamics 365).”
- “Statutory profit before tax reduced to £0.1m (FY25: £4.9m), impacted by restructuring and transformation activity, impairment charges and the Malaysia manufacturing write-off.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 40 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MORGAN, Christopher | Secretary | 2022-04-04 | — | — |
| EPERJESI, Louis Leslie Alexander | Director | 2023-01-03 | Mar 1962 | Canadian,British |
| FERGUSON, Katherine Jane | Director | 2024-09-10 | Oct 1972 | British |
| LANG, Serena | Director | 2023-08-10 | Aug 1970 | British |
| MILLS, Nicholas | Director | 2023-10-20 | Aug 1990 | British |
| PERCIVAL, Iain Philip | Director | 2023-09-20 | Sep 1967 | British |
| WATSON, Clive Graeme | Director | 2020-07-30 | Feb 1958 | British |
| WHYTE, Diane Laura | Director | 2024-03-11 | Mar 1959 | British |
Show 40 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELTON, Mark | Secretary | 2004-04-01 | 2015-03-01 |
| CASE, Lyndsey | Secretary | 2016-04-01 | 2022-04-04 |
| FOSTER, Clare | Secretary | 2015-03-01 | 2016-04-01 |
| LAWSON, Stuart John | Secretary | 1995-04-01 | 2004-03-31 |
| WILSON, John | Secretary | — | 1995-04-01 |
| ALLEN, Anthony Vivian | Director | 2003-01-01 | 2009-03-17 |
| AULD, Steve Malcolm | Director | 2005-10-13 | 2009-03-17 |
| BALMFORTH, Claire | Director | 2020-04-01 | 2024-04-01 |
| BARKER, James Charles | Director | 2009-03-18 | 2015-09-30 |
| BARKER, James Charles | Director | 1995-04-01 | 2007-05-31 |
| BARKER, John Brian Anthony | Director | — | 1994-09-19 |
| BELTON, Mark | Director | 2010-06-16 | 2023-02-18 |
| BUDD, Geoffrey Paul | Director | — | 2018-03-31 |
| BUDGEN, John Dennis | Director | 1993-08-05 | 2002-12-31 |
| BURY, Richard | Director | — | 1998-02-18 |
| CHAPMAN, Neil Spencer | Director | 2009-03-24 | 2015-06-16 |
| CRIPPS, Andrew Graham | Director | 2004-09-23 | 2008-03-31 |
| DIAMOND, Malcolm Mcdonald | Director | 2017-04-01 | 2020-03-31 |
| DIAMOND, Malcolm Mcdonald | Director | 2009-03-18 | 2017-04-01 |
| DIAMOND, Malcolm Mcdonald | Director | — | 2002-03-31 |
| DUGDALE, David John | Director | 1993-05-07 | 2003-12-31 |
| FOSTER, Clare | Director | 2015-10-01 | 2022-08-30 |
| FRANKLIN, Steven Michael | Director | 2001-04-01 | 2002-08-31 |
| HAYES-POWELL, Darren Mark | Director | 2022-12-01 | 2024-02-21 |
| HILL, Colin Aubrey | Director | — | 2003-06-23 |
| HUTCHINSON, Eric George | Director | 2004-06-21 | 2009-03-17 |
| LAWSON, Stuart John | Director | 2003-01-01 | 2009-01-31 |
| MAC MEEKIN, Scott | Director | 2013-04-25 | 2023-09-19 |
| MORGAN, Christopher Findlay | Director | 2022-08-31 | 2022-08-31 |
| MURPHY, Seamus | Director | 2010-06-16 | 2013-01-31 |
| ROBERTS, Glenda Christina | Director | 2010-06-16 | 2020-03-31 |
| ROBERTS, Michael John | Director | — | 1994-02-25 |
| SHEARMAN, Jonathan Paul David | Director | 2009-07-01 | 2023-09-14 |
| STEVENS, John Benedict | Director | 2000-08-30 | 2004-06-30 |
| TAN, Steven Choon Tee | Director | 2001-04-01 | 2008-01-07 |
| THOMAS, Graham Douglas | Director | 1995-04-01 | 1996-10-31 |
| TIMMS, Michael Clifford | Director | — | 1994-02-25 |
| WARNER, Neil William | Director | 2015-06-16 | 2020-07-31 |
| WILSON, John | Director | — | 2004-12-31 |
| WILSON, William Currie Neil | Director | 2008-01-08 | 2009-03-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 354 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-06-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-06-02 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-01-12 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge whole cease and release with charge number | |
| 2025-08-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-06-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-03 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-01-09 | AUD | auditors | Auditors resignation company | |
| 2024-11-01 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-09-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-07-12 | RP04TM01 | officers | Second filing of director termination with name | |
| 2024-06-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-04 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-04-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 1
- 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.