PRAX LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-11-30 (in 6mo)
Last filed for 2025-02-28
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-12 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-29
Watchouts
Cash
£18M
-51.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£122M
+0.4% vs 2024
Employees
478
-30.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£330K
-96.7% first positive since 2021
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
The above conditions indicate the existence of a material uncertainty related to going concern as conditions and events that cast significant doubt on the entity's ability to realize its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business.
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Audit opinion: Disclaimer of opinion
Latest auditor's report carried a non-clean opinion.
Net assets
4-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
4-year trend · latest reflected 2025-02-28
| Metric | Trend | 2020-02-29 | 2021-02-28 | 2024-02-28 | 2025-02-28 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £0 | £0 | £971,067,000 | £1,829,800,000 | |
| Operating profit | £600,000 | £0 | £18,094,000 | £44,147,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £600,000 | £0 | £9,868,000 | £330,000 | |
| Net profit | — | — | £17,470,000 | -£5,759,000 | |
| Cash | £2 | £2 | £37,450,000 | £18,105,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £8,104,624 | £8,104,624 | £494,265,000 | £476,905,000 | |
| Net assets | £8,104,624 | £8,104,624 | £121,862,000 | £122,385,000 | |
| Equity | £8,104,624 | £8,104,624 | £121,862,000 | £122,385,000 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 | 684 | 478 | |
| Wages | — | — | £11,957,000 | £13,496,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | £343,605 | £252,642 |
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 2025-02-28 vs 2024-02-28
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Turnover
+88.4%
£971,067,000 £1,829,800,000
highest in 4 filed years
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Cash
-51.7%
£37,450,000 £18,105,000
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Net assets
+0.4%
£121,862,000 £122,385,000
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Employees
-30.1%
684 478
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Operating profit
+144%
£18,094,000 £44,147,000
highest in 4 filed years
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Profit before tax
-96.7%
£9,868,000 £330,000
first positive since 2021
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Wages
+12.9%
£11,957,000 £13,496,000
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 | 2020-02-29 | 2021-02-28 | 2024-02-28 | 2025-02-28 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | — | 1.9% | 2.4% | |
| Net margin | — | — | 1.8% | -0.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.4% | 0.0% | 3.7% | 9.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | — | 82.2% | 81.1% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | 0.68x | 0.54x | |
| Interest cover | — | — | 0.66x | 1.01x |
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
- PRAX LIMITED 2013-10-14 → present
- MOGAS LIMITED 2003-11-13 → 2013-10-14
- ARASAN GROUP LIMITED 2003-07-29 → 2003-11-13
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- PKF Littlejohn LLP
- Audit opinion
- Disclaimer of opinion
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“The above conditions indicate the existence of a material uncertainty related to going concern as conditions and events that cast significant doubt on the entity's ability to realize its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business.”
Group structure
- PRAX LIMITED · parent
- Harvest Energy Retail Group Limited 100%
- Harvest Energy (Dealerships) Limited 100%
- Harvest Energy (BLA) Limited 100%
- Harvest Retail (Holdings) Limited 100%
- Breeze Retail Limited 100%
- Harvest Retail Limited 100%
- H.K.S. Holdings Limited 100%
- H.K.S. Motors Limited 100%
- H.K.S. Retail Limited 100%
- Brobot Group Limited 100%
- Brobot Petroleum Limited 100%
- Platinum Assets Investment Limited 100%
- King Street Holdings UK Limited 100%
- Retail Fuels Limited 100%
- Harvest Energie Retail GmbH 100%
- OIL! Tankstellen GmbH 100%
- OIL! Tank & go ApS 100%
- OIL! Tankstellen AG 100%
- OIL! Tankstellen GmbH 100%
Significant events
- “On 30 June 2025 State Oil Limited (SOL), the company's immediate parent, and several other companies within the wider State Oil Limited group went into administration.”
- “On 4 July 2025 two new directors were appointed to the board of the Company replacing the prior director. A sale process was initiated shortly post the appointment of the new directors for the sale of Prax Limited and its subsidiaries.”
- “Two of Prax Limited's subsidiaries (Harvest Energy (BLA) Limited and Harvest Energy (Dealerships) Limited) ceased trading post administration of SOL until August 2025.”
- “On 11 July 2025 Prax Limited entered into a new working capital financing facility in total of €50.4m, which was fully utilised as of the dates of the accounts.”
- “On 21 December 2025 Prax Limited entered into a new working capital financing facility in total of €10m, which was partly utilised.”
- “Company property was revalued in August 2025 as part of the refinancing, resulting in a valuation £20m lower than the February 25 valuation.”
- “On 28 October 2025 the Company agreed with its lenders to amend the terms of its existing facilities including the waiver of existing breaches and further changes of the commercial terms.”
- “As part of the agreements, the Company agreed the novation of certain intercompany balances in total of £27.6m owed by various Group companies to companies currently in administration.”
- “On 28 October 2025 Harvest Energy Limited (in administration) assigned to Harvest Energy Retail Limited its rights, title and interest in and to certain trademarks and intellectual property.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELEMENTAL COMPANY SECRETARY LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2020-04-21 | — | — |
| CLARKE, Jason Richard Lee | Director | 2025-07-14 | Oct 1970 | British |
| PIKE, Nicholas John | Director | 2025-07-04 | Dec 1962 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOOSAIPILLAI, Arani | Secretary | 2003-11-13 | 2020-04-21 |
| STATUTORY MANAGEMENTS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2003-07-29 | 2003-07-29 |
| BORNEO, Don Camillo Emilio | Director | 2019-01-09 | 2022-05-29 |
| SOOSAIPILLAI, Arani | Director | 2003-11-13 | 2009-04-01 |
| SOOSAIPILLAI, Winston Sanjeevkumar | Director | 2003-11-13 | 2025-07-04 |
| WORLDFORM LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2003-07-29 | 2003-07-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Winston Sanjeev Kumar Soosaipillai | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-04-06 |
| State Oil Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 109 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-12-30 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-12-23 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-12-23 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-11-14 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-11-14 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-07-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-29 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-07-29 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-07-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-07-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-07-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-28 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-12-28 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-12-27 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-12-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type audit exemption subsiduary | |
| 2023-12-05 | PARENT_ACC | accounts | Legacy |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 13
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- 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.