KOOKABURRA LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-07-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-10-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-27 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-13
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
+25.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£7M
+9.5% vs 2024
Employees
82
-31.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£911K
+857.4% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-10-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-10-31 | 2025-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £19,190,559 | £17,819,072 | |
| Operating profit | -£233,270 | £792,303 | |
| Profit before tax | -£120,302 | £911,184 | |
| Net profit | -£90,717 | £682,428 | |
| Cash | £3,291,417 | £4,140,082 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,772,694 | £7,302,385 | |
| Net assets | £6,320,651 | £6,918,079 | |
| Equity | £6,320,651 | £6,918,079 | |
| Average employees | 120 | 82 | |
| Wages | £3,217,642 | £2,438,028 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £264,660 | £271,493 |
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
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-10-31 vs 2024-10-31
-
Turnover
-7.1%
£19,190,559 £17,819,072
-
Cash
+25.8%
£3,291,417 £4,140,082
-
Net assets
+9.5%
£6,320,651 £6,918,079
-
Employees
-31.7%
120 82
-
Operating profit
+439.7%
-£233,270 £792,303
-
Profit before tax
+857.4%
-£120,302 £911,184
-
Wages
-24.2%
£3,217,642 £2,438,028
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-10-31 | 2025-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -1.2% | 4.4% | |
| Net margin | -0.5% | 3.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | -3.4% | 10.8% | |
| Current ratio | 2.97x | 3.18x |
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
- KOOKABURRA LIMITED 1988-02-17 → present
- CATERCHIP LIMITED 1987-09-17 → 1988-02-17
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Baines Jewitt Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.”
Significant events
- “On 10 December 2025, Brandmile Limited bought back and cancelled its own X Ordinary Shares from Brolga Limited. The ultimate holding company then became Brandmile Limited, a company registered in England, number 03777322.”
- “On 21 January 2026, the company declared a dividend of £300,000 to Brandmile Limited.”
- “On 5 March 2026, as part of a group restructure, the company declared a dividend of £3.7m to Brandmile Limited. The group restructure involved the forming of a new holding company, Kookaburra Holdings Limited, which bought all of the issued share capital of Brandmile Limited from its existing shareholders, the consideration for which was a combination of cash and debt to its outgoing shareholders and new shares in Kookaburra Holdings Limited to the continuing shareholder, Mr. Benjamin Herbert.”
- “On the same day, Mr. David Park purchased 50% of the issued share capital in Kookaburra Holdings Limited from Mr. Benjamin Herbert, giving them both joint control of the group.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 11 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HERBERT, Benjamin William | Director | 2017-09-26 | Jun 1973 | British |
| MACUK, Anetta Iwona | Director | 2024-10-02 | Jul 1978 | Polish |
| PARK, David Charles | Director | 2026-03-05 | Jan 1969 | British |
| WILSON, Anthony Edward | Director | 2013-09-01 | Sep 1970 | British |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELLIS, Geoffrey | Secretary | — | 1992-08-01 |
| MONKHOUSE, John Graham | Secretary | 1992-08-01 | 2020-07-31 |
| BOLTON, Christopher | Director | — | 1999-09-15 |
| CORCORAN, Dean Guy | Director | 2012-10-30 | 2014-03-26 |
| ELLIS, Geoffrey | Director | — | 1992-08-15 |
| GILROY, Anthony | Director | 2009-07-01 | 2013-08-30 |
| HERBERT, Geoffrey | Director | — | 2022-11-29 |
| IRELAND, Peter Ardwin | Director | 2014-12-23 | 2026-04-10 |
| MONKHOUSE, John Graham | Director | 1996-04-15 | 2020-07-31 |
| RANGELEY, William Richard Dowland | Director | 1996-04-15 | 2009-10-31 |
| THORNHILL, Anne Elizabeth | Director | 2002-09-01 | 2005-01-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandmile Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 150 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-04-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-03-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-27 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-09-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-03 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-03-04 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-03-04 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-03-04 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-08-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-08-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-08-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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.