DSV ROAD LIMITED
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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
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
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5 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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 | £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 | 775 | 760 | |
| 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
-
Turnover
+1.9%
£205,304,000 £209,249,000
-
Cash
0%
£1,000 £1,000
-
Net assets
-19.3%
£46,192,000 £37,291,000
-
Employees
-1.9%
775 760
-
Operating profit
-9.3%
£16,034,000 £14,546,000
-
Profit before tax
-6%
£13,507,000 £12,701,000
-
Wages
-7.7%
£29,265,000 £27,000,000
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 | 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 | 1.19x | 0.95x | |
| Interest cover | 2.81x | 2.66x |
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
- DSV ROAD LIMITED 2007-01-09 → present
- DFDS TRANSPORT LIMITED 1999-12-17 → 2007-01-09
- 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
- DSV ROAD LIMITED · parent
- DFDS Transport Ltd. 100%
Significant events
- “a dividend of £17,527,755 was authorised and paid during the year (2023: £nil).”
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 | |
| 2026-02-17 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-21 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-05-21 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 12
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 4
- Officers resigned
- 5
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.