GRIMALDI LIVERPOOL AGENCY LTD.
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-08 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-25
Watchouts
Cash
£2M
+133.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£7M
+19.1% vs 2023
Employees
158
-1.3% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£1M
+25.4% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Audit opinion: Qualified
Latest auditor's report carried a non-clean opinion.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £9,354,300 | £9,905,238 | |
| Operating profit | £1,186,743 | £1,456,477 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,137,445 | £1,426,351 | |
| Net profit | £841,069 | £1,059,942 | |
| Cash | £766,737 | £1,793,394 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,888,221 | £7,388,164 | |
| Net assets | £5,543,529 | £6,603,471 | |
| Equity | £5,543,529 | £6,603,471 | |
| Average employees | 160 | 158 | |
| Wages | £5,441,881 | £5,522,093 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £163,546 | £171,999 |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
+5.9%
£9,354,300 £9,905,238
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Cash
+133.9%
£766,737 £1,793,394
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Net assets
+19.1%
£5,543,529 £6,603,471
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Employees
-1.3%
160 158
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Operating profit
+22.7%
£1,186,743 £1,456,477
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Profit before tax
+25.4%
£1,137,445 £1,426,351
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Wages
+1.5%
£5,441,881 £5,522,093
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 12.7% | 14.7% | |
| Net margin | 9.0% | 10.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 17.2% | 19.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 58.4% | 57.5% | |
| Current ratio | 0.90x | 1.01x | |
| Interest cover | 24.07x | 48.35x |
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 3 times since incorporation
- GRIMALDI LIVERPOOL AGENCY LTD. 2022-01-04 → present
- ATLANTIC CONTAINER LINE UK LIMITED 1995-10-10 → 2022-01-04
- ATLANTIC CONTAINER LINE AGENCIES (UK) LIMITED 1991-08-16 → 1995-10-10
- GOULDITAR NO. 130 LIMITED 1990-09-26 → 1991-08-16
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Barnes Roffe LLP
- Audit opinion
- Qualified
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which the directors consider to be appropriate for the following reasons. The Company generated a profit for the year then ended of £1,059,942 whilst the Company is in an overall net asset position of £6,603,471.”
Significant events
- “In 2025, the Board proposes a dividend payment of £1,000,000 (2024: Nil)”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PERRY, John Clinton | Secretary | 2020-12-18 | — | — |
| BIANCO, Giovanni | Director | 2022-01-01 | May 1971 | Italian |
| GRIMALDI, Guido | Director | 2022-01-01 | Jun 1987 | Italian |
| KENNY, John Patrick | Director | 2022-01-01 | Feb 1965 | British |
| PATANÉ, Giuseppe | Director | 2022-01-01 | Mar 1979 | Italian |
| PERRY, John Clinton | Director | 2023-05-25 | Sep 1977 | British |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEAHY, Christopher John | Secretary | 1993-01-04 | 1997-12-24 |
| MCKENZIE, Christopher John | Secretary | 2003-03-14 | 2017-12-01 |
| STEPHENS, Christopher | Secretary | 2018-05-14 | 2020-03-16 |
| STEWART, Janice Elizabeth | Secretary | 1997-12-24 | 2003-03-14 |
| TURNER, Michael Stephen Venn | Secretary | — | 1993-01-04 |
| ABBOTT, Andrew | Director | 1998-07-27 | 2018-12-12 |
| ABBOTT, Andrew | Director | — | 1993-02-09 |
| FORSLER, Ake Ingemar | Director | — | 1993-02-09 |
| HIGBY, Ian Clinton | Director | 1996-08-01 | 2018-12-31 |
| IVARSSON, Anders Sven Ture | Director | 2018-12-12 | 2023-05-25 |
| LANGFORD, Brian Arthur | Director | 2005-11-21 | 2018-03-31 |
| LEAHY, Chris John | Director | 2018-05-11 | 2022-01-01 |
| RAKKENES, Olay Karl | Director | — | 1993-02-09 |
| ROSEN, Dan Axel | Director | 1993-02-09 | 2005-11-21 |
| RYDING, Gustaf Bernhard | Director | 1993-02-09 | 1998-03-31 |
| THATAI, Pradeep Kumar | Director | 1991-12-02 | 1994-02-28 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Andrew Abbott | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2022-01-01 |
| Atlantic Container Line Ab | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2022-01-01 |
| Mr Ian Clinton Higby | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-12-31 |
| Mr Brian Arthur Langford | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-03-31 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 142 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-01-04 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-15 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2022-09-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-05-05 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-05-05 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-01-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-01-04 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2021-10-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
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.