UPS SCS (UK) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-26 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-12
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1K
-99.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£18M
+8.9% vs 2023
Employees
387
-24.1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£3M
-22.1% vs 2023
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 | £119,224,000 | £95,104,000 | |
| Operating profit | £3,615,000 | £6,844,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £3,608,000 | £2,810,000 | |
| Net profit | £2,686,000 | £1,512,000 | |
| Cash | £106,000 | £1,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £39,791,000 | £21,965,000 | |
| Net assets | £16,945,000 | £18,457,000 | |
| Equity | £16,945,000 | £18,457,000 | |
| Average employees | 510 | 387 | |
| Wages | £15,674,000 | £12,708,000 | |
| 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. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-20.2%
£119,224,000 £95,104,000
-
Cash
-99.1%
£106,000 £1,000
-
Net assets
+8.9%
£16,945,000 £18,457,000
-
Employees
-24.1%
510 387
-
Operating profit
+89.3%
£3,615,000 £6,844,000
-
Profit before tax
-22.1%
£3,608,000 £2,810,000
-
Wages
-18.9%
£15,674,000 £12,708,000
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 | 3.0% | 7.2% | |
| Net margin | 2.3% | 1.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 9.1% | 31.2% | |
| Current ratio | 2.04x | 1.78x | |
| Interest cover | 38.87x | 570.33x |
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 4 times since incorporation
- UPS SCS (UK) LIMITED 2003-07-28 → present
- UPS FREIGHT SERVICES UK LIMITED 2002-07-31 → 2003-07-28
- FRITZ COMPANIES (UK) LIMITED 1996-06-10 → 2002-07-31
- FORWARDAIR LIMITED 1994-05-25 → 1996-06-10
- MISLEX (63) LIMITED 1994-05-12 → 1994-05-25
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Deloitte Ireland LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. ... Furthermore, the directors have obtained confirmation from its ultimate parent company that it will continue to make sufficient financial resources available to the Company to enable it to continue its operating activities for a period of not less than twenty months from the date of approval of the financial statements and to enable the Company to meet its liabilities as they fall due.”
Significant events
- “On 16 September 2024, the Company had disposed of the operations of the Haulfast line of business. As part of the transaction, the Company sold the assets and liabilities of said line for a total consideration of US$1,085,432 (£827,059), which resulted in a loss on disposal amounting to £4,166,663.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 38 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KLINGLER-WERNER, Susanne | Director | 2022-10-01 | Jun 1971 | German |
| PARKINSON, Matthew | Director | 2022-10-01 | Dec 1971 | British |
| SLEIMAN, Andrew | Director | 2025-11-01 | Feb 1980 | British |
| VERHOEF, Otto Wijnand Hendrik | Director | 2024-08-15 | Feb 1974 | Dutch |
Show 38 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEEK, Philip John | Secretary | 2000-01-31 | 2000-07-14 |
| DUNSTAN, Peter Kingsley | Secretary | 2016-07-26 | 2017-04-20 |
| HAYNES, Simon Laurence | Secretary | 1995-09-22 | 2000-01-31 |
| PAGDIWALLA, Zulfikar Fakhruddin | Secretary | 2000-07-14 | 2008-07-01 |
| RODRIGUEZ MARQUEZ, Elisabel | Secretary | 2017-04-20 | 2019-08-01 |
| STEWARDSON, Peter Raoul | Secretary | 2020-04-29 | 2025-11-17 |
| WADGE, Stewart | Secretary | 2008-07-01 | 2016-07-26 |
| WELSH, Bram Matthew | Secretary | 2019-08-01 | 2020-04-29 |
| WHIDDINGTON, Charles Richard | Secretary | 1995-09-22 | 2000-01-31 |
| WESTLEX REGISTRARS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1994-05-12 | 1995-09-22 |
| ARRIAGA ARIAS, Luis | Director | 2016-11-23 | 2018-06-18 |
| BLAIN, Christian | Director | 1997-08-22 | 2003-07-31 |
| COSSAR, Thomas Ritchie | Director | 1995-09-22 | 1996-05-22 |
| DOBBERSTEIN, Boris | Director | 2020-04-29 | 2024-08-15 |
| DUNSTAN, Peter Kingsley | Director | 2013-10-17 | 2017-04-20 |
| HAFFERTY, John | Director | 2001-06-01 | 2006-01-09 |
| HARRELL, Michael Burke | Director | 2020-04-29 | 2022-10-01 |
| HILL, Daryl | Director | 1997-06-21 | 1997-07-23 |
| LEMKE, Dirk Winfried | Director | 2003-07-31 | 2005-12-14 |
| MADSEN, Steve Thomas | Director | 1999-12-29 | 2000-04-30 |
| MENSING, Hans Michael | Director | 2011-10-21 | 2017-02-01 |
| NIGHTINGALE, Mark | Director | 2011-10-21 | 2016-11-23 |
| PHILLIPS, Martin Ladd | Director | 2000-05-01 | 2002-05-02 |
| RICHARDSON, Stuart George | Director | 2008-07-01 | 2011-09-23 |
| RIVIECCIO JR, Louis Anthony | Director | 2019-07-08 | 2020-04-29 |
| RODRIGUEZ MARQUEZ, Elisabel | Director | 2017-04-20 | 2019-08-01 |
| SALENTINE, Andrew Thomas | Director | 1997-08-22 | 1999-12-29 |
| SCHARDT, Manfred | Director | 1996-05-20 | 2008-08-29 |
| STEWARDSON, Peter Raoul | Director | 2017-02-01 | 2025-11-17 |
| SULEIMAN, Rami | Director | 2011-09-23 | 2013-10-17 |
| TRENCHARD, Alison | Director | 1996-05-29 | 1997-08-12 |
| VALE, Mark Simon | Director | 2018-06-18 | 2020-04-29 |
| WARD, Peter Geoffrey | Director | 1999-10-18 | 2002-12-31 |
| WARD, Simon | Director | 1997-08-31 | 1999-10-19 |
| WASHBURN, Janice Jane | Director | 2000-01-21 | 2001-05-31 |
| WELSH, Bram Matthew | Director | 2019-08-01 | 2020-04-29 |
| WOOD, Steven Paul | Director | 2002-12-20 | 2010-04-06 |
| WESTLEX NOMINEES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1994-05-12 | 1995-09-22 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Parcel Service, Inc. | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 180 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-20 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-05 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2022-11-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-10-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-05-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-03-14 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2021-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-05-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 2
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.