FINLAY EXTRACTS & INGREDIENTS UK LIMITED
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Cash
£625k
USD 841,000
+197.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£69m
USD 92,804,000
+1.6% highest in 3 filed years
Employees
2
0% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£634k
USD -853,000
+32.5% highest in 3 filed years
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
James Finlay Limited has indicated its intention to continue to make available such funds as are needed by the Company for the period covered by the forecasts. As with any company placing reliance on other group entities for financial support, the directors acknowledge that there can be no certainty that this support will continue although, at the date of approval of these financial statements, they have no reason to believe that it will not do so.
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Going-concern uncertainty disclosed
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Consumer Staples 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 | £16,419,918 | £11,472,315 | £15,112,598 | +31.7% | |
| Operating profit | -£728,354 | -£2,746,934 | -£2,549,981 | +7.2% | |
| Profit before tax | -£5,114,084 | -£939,428 | -£633,965 | +32.5% | |
| Net profit | -£3,760,684 | £841,323 | £1,098,476 | +30.6% | |
| Cash | £1,763,657 | £210,331 | £625,046 | +197.2% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £132,957,265 | £130,974,359 | £130,902,267 | -0.1% | |
| Net assets | £67,033,816 | £67,875,139 | £68,973,616 | +1.6% | |
| Equity | £67,033,816 | £67,875,139 | £68,973,616 | +1.6% | |
| Average employees | — | 2 | 2 | 0% | |
| Wages | — | £0 | £0 | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | £0 | £0 | — |
Figures converted to GBP from USD at 0.743 per USD (Frankfurter spot rate) — hover any figure for the original. — 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 | -4.4% | -23.9% | -16.9% | |
| Net margin | -22.9% | 7.3% | 7.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | -0.5% | -2.1% | -1.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 50.2% | 49.0% | — | |
| Current ratio | 3.98x | 3.43x | 15.47x | |
| Interest cover | -0.14x | -0.53x | -0.58x |
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
- FINLAY EXTRACTS & INGREDIENTS UK LIMITED 2015-09-28 → present
- FINLAY EXTRACTS LIMITED 2007-12-21 → 2015-09-28
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“James Finlay Limited has indicated its intention to continue to make available such funds as are needed by the Company for the period covered by the forecasts. As with any company placing reliance on other group entities for financial support, the directors acknowledge that there can be no certainty that this support will continue although, at the date of approval of these financial statements, they have no reason to believe that it will not do so.”
Group structure
- FINLAY EXTRACTS & INGREDIENTS UK LIMITED · parent
- Finlay Tea Solutions (Hong Kong) Limited 100%
- Finlay Hull Limited 100%
- James Finlay (ME) DMCC 100%
- James Finlay (Blantyre) Limited 100%
- Casa Fuentes SACIFI 98%
- Argente SA 100%
- Finlay Extracts & Ingredients Holland B.V. 100%
Significant events
- “An indication of likely future developments in the business and particulars of significant events which have occurred since the end of the financial year have been included in the Strategic Report on pages 2-3.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 13 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MORRIS, David Charles | Secretary | 2018-10-03 | — | — |
| RUTHERFORD, Julian Michael | Director | 2013-02-01 | Mar 1971 | British |
| WOODROW, James Hugh, Mr. | Director | 2022-06-30 | May 1967 | British |
Show 13 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIBBEN, Ann Marie | Secretary | 2018-02-27 | 2018-07-13 |
| JAMES FINLAY LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2007-12-21 | 2018-02-27 |
| BARCROFT, Anthony Francis | Director | 2007-12-21 | 2010-02-02 |
| CHAMBERS, Guy Rufus | Director | 2015-09-11 | 2022-06-03 |
| CORSAN, Robert John | Director | 2007-12-21 | 2010-02-02 |
| DARLINGTON, Richard Andrew | Director | 2010-02-02 | 2012-04-30 |
| HENSON, Paul Robert | Director | 2007-12-21 | 2013-02-01 |
| HOGG, Rupert Bruce Grantham Trower | Director | 2007-12-21 | 2008-09-22 |
| LAWSON, Mark Anthony | Director | 2015-09-28 | 2020-03-31 |
| MATHISON, Ronald James | Director | 2008-09-22 | 2015-09-11 |
| SUMNER, Brett Geoffrey | Director | 2010-02-02 | 2016-01-15 |
| WILLIAMS, Gerald Owain | Director | 2014-01-02 | 2019-06-07 |
| WILLSHER, Neil Robert | Director | 2012-05-01 | 2020-06-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Finlay Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 91 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-03-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-01 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-03-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-03-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-03-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-09-06 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-09-05 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-07-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-06-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-03-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-11-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-04-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-03-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-10-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- 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.