CPL AROMAS (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-07 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-24
Watchouts
Cash
£29M
+59.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£133M
+21.9% vs 2024
Employees
841
+13.2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£33M
+75% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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2 PSCs ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £164,306,000 | £185,458,000 | |
| Operating profit | £18,676,000 | £32,601,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £18,912,000 | £33,101,000 | |
| Net profit | £15,697,000 | £29,780,000 | |
| Cash | £18,416,000 | £29,313,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £110,130,000 | £133,497,000 | |
| Net assets | £109,441,000 | £133,395,000 | |
| Equity | £109,441,000 | £133,395,000 | |
| Average employees | 743 | 841 | |
| Wages | £32,255,000 | £37,295,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £1,583,000 | £1,723,000 |
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 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+12.9%
£164,306,000 £185,458,000
-
Cash
+59.2%
£18,416,000 £29,313,000
-
Net assets
+21.9%
£109,441,000 £133,395,000
-
Employees
+13.2%
743 841
-
Operating profit
+74.6%
£18,676,000 £32,601,000
-
Profit before tax
+75%
£18,912,000 £33,101,000
-
Wages
+15.6%
£32,255,000 £37,295,000
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 11.4% | 17.6% | |
| Net margin | 9.6% | 16.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 17.0% | 24.4% | |
| Current ratio | 3.13x | 3.53x |
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
- CPL AROMAS (HOLDINGS) LIMITED 2007-03-09 → present
- BROOMCO (1942) LIMITED 1999-09-13 → 2007-03-09
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on current trading performance, the actions that have been taken and the sensitivity and reverse stress testing performed, the directors have a 'reasonable expectation that the Group and parent Company have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, being a period of no less than twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements. Accordingly, we continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- CPL AROMAS (HOLDINGS) LIMITED · parent
- CPL Aromas Limited 100%
- CPL Aromas (Far East) Limited 100%
- CPL Aromas France SAS 100%
- CPL Aromas Inc 100%
- CPL Aromas GmbH 100%
- CPL Aromas FZE 100%
- CPL India (PVT) Limited 100%
- Guangzhou Sifang Aromas Co Ltd 100%
- Massive Way Limited 100%
- CPL Aromas (Malaysia) SDN.BHD 100%
- CPL Aromas Spain, S.L.U. 100%
- CPL Aromas Spain Europe, S.L.U. 100%
- CPL Aromas SAS 100%
- CPL Aromas Do Brasil Ltda 100%
- PT CPL Aromas Indonesia 100%
- CPL Aromas (Thailand) Limited 100%
- CPL Aromas Vietnam Ltd 100%
- CPL Aromas (Philippines) Inc 100%
- CPL Aromas Italia SRL 100%
- Yu Parfums Limited 50%
Significant events
- “On 9 June 2025, the Company repurchased 42,156 Ordinary shares from a shareholder. These shares were paid for and cancelled on the same date.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 19 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLOYD, Anthony Ewart | Secretary | 2019-06-04 | — | — |
| FORBES, Bruce | Director | 2013-04-25 | Feb 1957 | British |
| JACOBS, Peter Jonathan | Director | 2009-06-15 | May 1955 | British |
| KOTHARI, Monila Amar | Director | 2024-12-01 | Feb 1964 | Singaporean |
| LLOYD, Anthony Ewart | Director | 2019-02-04 | Apr 1973 | British |
| PICKTHALL, Christopher | Director | 1999-11-16 | Dec 1968 | British |
| PICKTHALL, Nicholas | Director | 2009-06-15 | Jan 1976 | British |
| PICKTHALL, Terence | Director | 1999-11-16 | Mar 1939 | British |
Show 19 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARDNER, Philip Jonathan | Secretary | 2015-12-15 | 2019-06-04 |
| KALINOWSKI, Mark James Adam, Mr. | Secretary | 2013-05-25 | 2015-09-17 |
| PICKTHALL, Terence | Secretary | 1999-11-16 | 2013-05-24 |
| WHINNEY, Charles Humphrey Dickens | Secretary | 2015-09-17 | 2015-12-15 |
| DLA SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1999-09-13 | 1999-11-16 |
| DAWE, Stuart Edward | Director | 2009-06-15 | 2013-05-24 |
| DOUGLAS, Bruce Hamilton | Director | 2000-01-08 | 2001-02-23 |
| DUNSDON, James Henry | Director | 2011-01-25 | 2018-07-31 |
| GARDNER, Philip Jonathan | Director | 2015-12-15 | 2019-06-04 |
| GUJRAL, Manoj | Director | 2000-01-14 | 2001-02-23 |
| KALINOWSKI, Mark James Adam | Director | 2013-04-25 | 2015-09-17 |
| PICKTHALL, Francis | Director | 1999-11-16 | 2019-03-01 |
| PICKTHALL, Stuart | Director | 2009-06-15 | 2009-06-15 |
| PIPER, Paul James | Director | 2001-02-15 | 2003-03-19 |
| TRAVERS-SMITH, Christiane, Ms. | Director | 2020-01-01 | 2023-10-11 |
| VEAL, Kirk | Director | 2000-01-14 | 2001-02-23 |
| WHINNEY, Charles Humphrey Dickens | Director | 2015-09-17 | 2015-12-15 |
| DLA NOMINEES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1999-09-13 | 1999-11-16 |
| DLA SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1999-09-13 | 1999-11-16 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr David Walden Pickthall | Individual | ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-trust | 2023-10-24 | Ceased 2024-06-10 |
| Mrs Wendy Elizabeth Pickthall | Individual | ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-trust | 2023-10-24 | Active |
| Mrs Maria Lucretia Pickthall | Individual | ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-trust | 2023-06-08 | Active |
| Mr Nicholas Pickthall | Individual | ownership-of-shares-50-to-75-percent-as-trust | 2021-04-19 | Active |
| Mr Christopher Pickthall | Individual | ownership-of-shares-50-to-75-percent-as-trust | 2021-04-19 | Active |
| Mr Terrence Pickthall | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2019-02-15 | Ceased 2025-04-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 184 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-12-05 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-10 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-06-12 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2024-12-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-11-05 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-11-05 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-11-05 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-09-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-07-02 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2024-07-02 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2023-10-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-10-24 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-10-24 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-10-24 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-10-24 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-10-24 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-10-11 | 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
- 4
- 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.