FABRIS LANE LTD.
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-19 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-05
Watchouts
Cash
£63K
-83.8% vs 2023
Net assets
£7M
+18.4% vs 2023
Employees
9
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£1M
-6.3% vs 2023
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
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £3,483,000 | £3,537,000 | |
| Operating profit | £729,000 | £1,224,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,373,000 | £1,286,000 | |
| Net profit | £1,121,000 | £1,049,000 | |
| Cash | £388,000 | £63,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,300,000 | £7,315,000 | |
| Net assets | £5,695,000 | £6,744,000 | |
| Equity | £5,695,000 | £6,744,000 | |
| Average employees | 9 | 9 | |
| Wages | £301,000 | £310,000 | |
| 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
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Turnover
+1.6%
£3,483,000 £3,537,000
-
Cash
-83.8%
£388,000 £63,000
-
Net assets
+18.4%
£5,695,000 £6,744,000
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Employees
0%
9 9
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Operating profit
+67.9%
£729,000 £1,224,000
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Profit before tax
-6.3%
£1,373,000 £1,286,000
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Wages
+3%
£301,000 £310,000
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 | 20.9% | 34.6% | |
| Net margin | 32.2% | 29.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 11.6% | 16.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 49.8% | 51.0% | |
| Current ratio | 2.23x | 2.12x | |
| Interest cover | 182.25x | 306.00x |
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
- FABRIS LANE LTD. 1998-09-23 → present
- D.D.F. LIMITED 1997-09-05 → 1998-09-23
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Forvis Mazars LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors are satisfied that the Company has adequate resources for its foreseeable future needs and for this reason continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements. The Company continued to be profitable during 2025. Further, the Company received £7.8m in full payment of the balance outstanding with its parent company improving the liquidity and cashflow position. The directors have prepared cash flow forecasts in order to assess going concern which indicate that, taking account of reasonably possible downsides, the Company will have sufficient funds, through day to day operations, to meet its liabilities as they fall due during the going concern assessment period. Consequently, the directors are confident that the Company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- FABRIS LANE LTD. · parent
- FL Eyewear (Wenzhou) Co Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The Company migrated all UK warehousing operations to a modern purpose-built distribution centre on 1st February 2024. On 14th November 2024, the immediate holding company, Three Hundred Limited, transferred complete ownership of Fabris Lane Limited to its immediate holding company, Trifle Holdings Limited.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 21 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VISTRA COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2015-03-20 | — | — |
| DE BONDT, Davy | Director | 2022-11-30 | Apr 1982 | Belgian |
| DUCA, Matteo Lo | Director | 2023-09-25 | Jun 1979 | Italian |
| MADDOCK, Rob | Director | 2023-09-25 | Jan 1972 | British |
Show 21 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIES, Simon James | Secretary | 2008-10-16 | 2012-06-01 |
| DOWNES, Timothy Garth | Secretary | 2012-06-01 | 2013-03-31 |
| DOWNES, Timothy Garth | Secretary | 1997-09-18 | 2008-10-16 |
| DMCS SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1997-09-05 | 1997-09-18 |
| BARBERIO, Roberto | Director | 2022-07-13 | 2023-09-25 |
| BURMESTER, Thomas Simon William | Director | 2019-02-04 | 2023-09-25 |
| DAVIES, Simon James | Director | 2008-10-16 | 2012-06-01 |
| DI PAOLA, Anthony | Director | 2015-02-26 | 2020-07-01 |
| DOWNES, Timothy Garth | Director | 1997-09-18 | 2013-03-31 |
| DURRANT-PEATFIELD, Simon Justin | Director | 1998-01-09 | 2000-09-15 |
| FABRIS, Mario | Director | 1997-09-18 | 2005-03-15 |
| FARRINGTON, Samuel William | Director | 2005-10-01 | 2010-05-14 |
| GIGUERE, Jeffrey Joseph | Director | 2015-02-26 | 2022-11-30 |
| JACOBS, Nicholas Edgar Monat, Mr. | Director | 2005-10-01 | 2009-09-29 |
| LANE, Fiona Davina Sybil | Director | 1997-09-18 | 2006-12-15 |
| LANE, Hyacinth Mary | Director | 2013-10-01 | 2015-02-26 |
| LANE, Roderick Frederick Alexander | Director | 1997-09-18 | 2015-02-26 |
| MCWALTER, Alan James | Director | 2010-08-19 | 2013-03-28 |
| MILES, Jonathan Richard, Mr. | Director | 2015-02-26 | 2022-04-15 |
| WHITEHEAD, Paul Brian, Mr. | Director | 2005-10-01 | 2009-09-29 |
| DMCS DIRECTORS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1997-09-05 | 1997-09-18 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trifle Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2024-11-13 | Active |
| Three Hundred Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2024-11-13 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 176 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-27 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date | |
| 2026-03-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-03-04 | DISS40 | gazette | Gazette filings brought up to date | |
| 2026-03-03 | GAZ1 | gazette | Gazette notice compulsory | |
| 2025-10-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-05-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-26 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-11-26 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-09-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-25 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-09-25 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-05-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-12-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- 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.