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Next accounts due

2026-09-30 (in 4mo)

Last filed for 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-11-11 (in 6mo)

Last made up 2025-10-28

Watchouts

1 item

Cash

£1K

0% vs 2023

Net assets

£37M

-19.3% vs 2023

Employees

760

-1.9% vs 2023

Profit before tax

£13M

-6% vs 2023

Watchouts

Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31

Metric Trend 2023-12-312024-12-31
Turnover £205,304,000£209,249,000
Operating profit £16,034,000£14,546,000
Profit before tax £13,507,000£12,701,000
Net profit £10,292,000£11,117,000
Cash £1,000£1,000
Total assets less current liabilities £92,446,000£75,516,000
Net assets £46,192,000£37,291,000
Equity £46,192,000£37,291,000
Average employees 775760
Wages £29,265,000£27,000,000
Directors' remuneration £566,000£703,000

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

FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31

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 2023-12-312024-12-31
Operating margin 7.8%7.0%
Net margin 5.0%5.3%
Return on capital employed 17.3%19.3%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets) 67.3%70.0%
Current ratio 1.19x0.95x
Interest cover 2.81x2.66x

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 2 times since incorporation

  1. DSV ROAD LIMITED 2007-01-09 → present
  2. DFDS TRANSPORT LIMITED 1999-12-17 → 2007-01-09
  3. CROWNBARN LIMITED 1999-12-13 → 1999-12-17

Audit & accounting basis

Accounting basis
FRS 101
Reporting scope
Standalone (parent only)
Auditor
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“The company meets its day-to-day working capital requirements through an intercompany funding facility in place with the ultimate parent company. The current economic conditions continue to create uncertainty, particularly over the level of demand for the company's services. The company's forecasts and projections, taking account of reasonably possible changes in trading performance, show that the company should be able to operate within the level of its current intercompany funding facility. After making enquiries, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The company therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.”

Group structure

  1. DSV ROAD LIMITED · parent
    1. DFDS Transport Ltd. 100% · UK · Non trading

Significant events

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

5 active · 27 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
WATTS, Nichola Claire Secretary 2026-02-14
EJSING, Brian Skovgaard Director 2024-10-24 Sep 1966 Danish
MALMQVIST, Magnus Nils Director 2025-06-09 Apr 1973 Swedish
SCHWEIGHOFER, Helmut Franz Director 2025-06-23 Jan 1969 Austrian
THYGESEN, Jesper Krupa Director 2025-06-09 Nov 1978 Danish
Show 27 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
LONCKE, Larsen Jan Secretary 2025-05-15 2026-02-14
RIDSDALE, Gary Maurice Secretary 2004-09-24 2025-05-15
WILDE, Alistair Peter Secretary 1999-11-10 2004-09-24
LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED Corporate Nominee Secretary 1999-11-10 1999-11-10
ANDERSEN, Jens Bjorn Director 2002-12-16 2017-06-20
BURNHAM, Hugh Bernard Director 1999-12-01 2002-04-02
CLARKE, Denise Vicky Director 2011-01-01 2013-11-01
DICKIE, John Keatley Director 1999-12-01 2003-07-31
FAICHNIE, Robert Russell Director 2002-08-01 2003-05-31
FOWLER, Andrew James Director 2002-08-01 2010-07-02
FRIE, Ole Director 1999-12-01 2000-11-20
FUSSELL, Charles James Director 2002-08-01 2003-05-31
HANSEN, Jesper Kenneth Director 2013-06-17 2025-06-12
HANSEN, Johannes Peter Hoetberg Director 1999-12-01 2008-09-05
HEDDERWICK, James Director 2001-04-02 2002-10-21
HOLMSTRUP, Kasper Director 2024-10-24 2025-09-01
LARSEN, Kurt Kokhauge Director 2000-11-20 2008-09-05
LUND, Jens Hesselberg Director 2009-05-01 2024-10-24
MORRISON, John Bryce Director 1999-12-01 2001-04-02
NIELSEN, Jens Peter Pindstrup Director 2001-04-02 2009-04-29
NIELSEN, Jens Skibsted Director 1999-12-01 2002-12-16
OLESEN, Rene Falch Director 1999-11-10 2013-11-01
RASMUSSEN, Ulrik Egmose Director 2008-01-02 2009-10-30
RIDSDALE, Gary Maurice Director 2000-04-01 2013-11-01
SCHMIDT, Soren Director 2009-05-01 2025-06-12
TIMMIS, Karl Christopher Director 2011-01-01 2013-11-01
LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED Corporate Nominee Director 1999-11-10 1999-11-10

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Dsv Road Holding Limited Corporate entity Shares 75–100% 2022-11-04 Active
Dsv A/S Corporate entity Shares 75–100% 2016-04-06 Ceased 2022-11-04

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 144 total filings

Date Type Category Description
2026-02-17 AP03 officers Appoint person secretary company with name date PDF
2026-02-17 TM02 officers Termination secretary company with name termination date PDF
2025-10-28 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2025-09-01 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2025-06-24 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2025-06-13 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2025-06-13 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2025-06-10 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2025-06-10 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2025-05-21 AP03 officers Appoint person secretary company with name date PDF
2025-05-21 TM02 officers Termination secretary company with name termination date PDF
2025-05-15 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2024-11-06 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2024-10-24 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2024-10-24 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2024-10-24 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2024-05-14 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2023-11-08 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2023-05-15 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2022-11-04 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
12

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
4

last 12 months

Officers resigned
5

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

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