DDW COLOURS UK LTD.
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Cash
£4m
+1.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£12m
+1.9% highest in 3 filed years
Employees
34
+3% highest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£313k
-24.5% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Consumer Staples 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 | £9,587,396 | £9,265,800 | £8,596,599 | -7.2% | |
| Operating profit | £22,707 | £420,645 | £226,741 | -46.1% | |
| Profit before tax | £11,887 | £414,898 | £313,421 | -24.5% | |
| Net profit | £10,746 | £288,869 | £226,183 | -21.7% | |
| Cash | £6,368,881 | £3,966,263 | £4,020,570 | +1.4% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £11,744,796 | £12,064,240 | £12,262,002 | +1.6% | |
| Net assets | £11,605,679 | £11,894,548 | £12,120,731 | +1.9% | |
| Equity | £11,605,679 | £11,894,848 | £12,120,731 | +1.9% | |
| Average employees | 33 | 33 | 34 | +3% | |
| Wages | £1,396,962 | £1,440,586 | £1,548,295 | +7.5% | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | — | — |
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 | 0.2% | 4.5% | 2.6% | |
| Net margin | 0.1% | 3.1% | 2.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 0.2% | 3.5% | 1.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 15.3% | 10.4% | 16.1% | |
| Current ratio | 6.23x | 9.87x | 6.07x | |
| Interest cover | 2.10x | 64.86x | 19.27x |
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
- DDW COLOURS UK LTD. 2019-10-01 → present
- PHYTONE LIMITED 1989-02-10 → 2019-10-01
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Forvis Mazars
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Significant events
- “On 11 March 2025, as part of a group restructure, the company's shareholding was transferred directly to Givaudan S.A., a company incorporated in Switzerland.”
- “There have been no significant events affecting the company since the year end.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 22 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KING, Michael David | Director | 2024-01-16 | Feb 1975 | American |
| MESSENGER, Ian James | Director | 2022-10-06 | Mar 1968 | British |
Show 22 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DE GENNARO, Janette | Secretary | 2013-11-01 | 2019-06-28 |
| KEVILL, Andrew Edward | Secretary | 1998-11-26 | 2012-06-13 |
| KEVILL, Patricia | Secretary | — | 1998-11-26 |
| BAST, Bryan | Director | 2012-12-17 | 2015-02-24 |
| DECLEENE, James | Director | 2014-04-08 | 2019-06-28 |
| HAMPTON, Anne Nixon | Director | 2019-06-28 | 2022-10-06 |
| HENRY, Barbara Elizabeth | Director | — | 2012-06-13 |
| HENRY, Bruce Stewart | Director | — | 2012-06-13 |
| HENRY, Joseph Owen | Director | 2010-12-10 | 2012-06-13 |
| HENRY, Rose Llinos | Director | 2010-12-10 | 2012-06-13 |
| HENRY, Thomas Rhys | Director | 2010-12-10 | 2012-06-13 |
| KEVILL, Andrew Edward | Director | — | 2012-06-13 |
| KEVILL, Patricia | Director | — | 2008-03-07 |
| KNEWSTUBB, Conrad John | Director | — | 2002-12-31 |
| NIXON, Edith Houghton | Director | 2019-06-28 | 2022-10-06 |
| NIXON, Theodore Halstead | Director | 2019-06-28 | 2022-10-06 |
| NORRIS, Eric Walton | Director | 2015-01-05 | 2017-10-31 |
| PARMAR, Pradeep | Director | 2022-10-06 | 2024-01-16 |
| PATTISON, Joseph Eliot | Director | 2012-06-13 | 2017-11-01 |
| PERRY, Richard | Director | — | 2009-09-30 |
| SMITH, Michael Patrick | Director | 2012-06-13 | 2014-12-01 |
| WIJEYERATNE, Gerard Ralph | Director | 2012-06-13 | 2014-04-08 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Givaudan S.A | Corporate entity | Significant influence | 2025-03-11 | Active |
| Ms Edith Nixon | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2019-07-01 | Ceased 2022-10-06 |
| Mr Theodore Nixon | Individual | Appoints directors, Appoints directors (as firm) | 2019-07-01 | Ceased 2022-10-06 |
| N&H Holding Uk Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-03-11 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 160 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-07-31 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-07-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-06-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-08 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-06-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-06-08 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-09-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-11 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2022-10-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-10-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- 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.