RECRESCO LIMITED
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Cash
£7.2m
+96% vs 2024
Net assets
£24m
-10.5% lowest in 3 filed years
Employees
84
-4.5% lowest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£5.1m
+16.8% vs 2024
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £69,300,769 | £62,608,059 | £44,744,116 | -28.5% | |
| Operating profit | £24,031,839 | £4,520,285 | £5,086,087 | +12.5% | |
| Profit before tax | £23,914,664 | £4,372,685 | £5,106,660 | +16.8% | |
| Net profit | £18,260,489 | £3,673,797 | £3,695,773 | +0.6% | |
| Cash | £27,281,308 | £3,664,965 | £7,184,909 | +96% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £46,144,171 | £28,723,654 | £25,461,317 | -11.4% | |
| Net assets | £43,095,636 | £26,768,957 | £23,964,731 | -10.5% | |
| Equity | £43,095,636 | £26,768,957 | £23,964,731 | -10.5% | |
| Average employees | 107 | 88 | 84 | -4.5% | |
| Wages | £4,171,017 | £3,503,789 | £3,534,085 | +0.9% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £121,498 | — | — | — | |
| Directors' pension contributions | £120,000 | — | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 34.7% | 7.2% | 11.4% | |
| Net margin | 26.3% | 5.9% | 8.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 52.1% | 15.7% | 20.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 25.0% | 28.6% | 31.9% | |
| Current ratio | 3.70x | 2.65x | 2.31x | |
| Interest cover | 60.27x | 13.05x | 48.53x |
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 2 times since incorporation
- RECRESCO LIMITED 2003-11-18 → present
- MIDLAND GLASS PROCESSING COMPANY LIMITED 2000-10-03 → 2003-11-18
- FIVE DOVES LIMITED 2000-09-06 → 2000-10-03
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Company meets its day to day working capital requirements by maintaining a positive cash balance. ... stress tests and risk assessments indicate that the business will generate positive cash forecasts and will be able to operate until 31 May 2027.”
Significant events
- “Introduction of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), which came into force on 1 January 2025. This has led some companies to move away from glass containers for their packaging, more in favour of lighter weight container packaging such as plastics or aluminium.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VIEIRA DA SILVA, Marta | Secretary | 2023-12-20 | — | — |
| MIRANDA MOREIRA DA SILVA, Tiago | Director | 2026-01-01 | Sep 1974 | Portuguese |
| SARAIVA CRUZ DE VALADARES COELHO, Reinaldo Jose | Director | 2023-12-20 | Jul 1974 | Portuguese |
| VILELA RODRIGUES DIAS, Iva Maria | Director | 2023-12-20 | Jul 1976 | Portuguese |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GENT, Graham | Secretary | 2000-09-21 | 2023-12-20 |
| CHETTLEBURGH INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2000-09-06 | 2000-09-21 |
| ETCHES, Simon Jonathan | Director | 2011-05-11 | 2014-04-30 |
| GENT, Eric | Director | 2005-02-14 | 2021-10-21 |
| GENT, Graham | Director | 2000-09-21 | 2023-12-20 |
| GENT, Janet | Director | 2000-09-29 | 2005-02-14 |
| GENT, Steven | Director | 2005-02-14 | 2021-02-01 |
| GENT, Timothy | Director | 2000-09-21 | 2023-12-20 |
| HANCOCK, John | Director | 2019-11-01 | 2023-12-20 |
| HATHAWAY, Peter John | Director | 2014-07-30 | 2017-09-14 |
| MARJORAM, Stephen John | Director | 2012-08-28 | 2016-05-27 |
| MARTIN, Philip Guy | Director | 2011-05-11 | 2016-11-17 |
| NEILSON, Jeffrey Harold | Director | 2016-11-17 | 2017-05-18 |
| O'SULLIVAN, Kevin Patrick | Director | 2016-05-16 | 2017-11-15 |
| PINHEIRO MENDES, Luis Manuel | Director | 2023-12-20 | 2026-01-01 |
| CHETTLEBURGH'S LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2000-09-06 | 2000-09-21 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 159 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-06-05 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-02-03 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-01-27 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-09-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-02-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-06-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-05 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-02-03 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-02-02 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2024-02-02 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2024-01-27 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-01-04 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-01-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-04 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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.