MH STAR UK LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-08 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-25
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
-27.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£60M
+31.9% vs 2023
Employees
143
+43% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£3M
+69.7% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £183,828,000 | £216,719,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£565,000 | -£258,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£9,898,000 | -£3,002,000 | |
| Net profit | -£10,041,000 | -£3,002,000 | |
| Cash | £3,671,000 | £2,648,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £48,075,000 | £138,814,000 | |
| Net assets | £45,485,000 | £59,976,000 | |
| Equity | £45,485,000 | £59,976,000 | |
| Average employees | 100 | 143 | |
| Wages | £3,550,000 | £4,891,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — |
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
+17.9%
£183,828,000 £216,719,000
-
Cash
-27.9%
£3,671,000 £2,648,000
-
Net assets
+31.9%
£45,485,000 £59,976,000
-
Employees
+43%
100 143
-
Operating profit
+54.3%
-£565,000 -£258,000
-
Profit before tax
+69.7%
-£9,898,000 -£3,002,000
-
Wages
+37.8%
£3,550,000 £4,891,000
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 | -0.3% | -0.1% | |
| Net margin | -5.5% | -1.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | -1.2% | -0.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 68.1% | 76.6% | |
| Current ratio | 0.84x | 0.94x | |
| Interest cover | -1.04x | -0.09x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After reviewing these forecasts and having made the appropriate enquiries, the Director has a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue operating for the foreseeable future. The company therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- MH STAR UK LTD · parent
- MH Handel GmbH 100%
- MH France SARL 100%
- AOSOM LLC 100%
- Aosom Italy SRL 100%
- Spanish Aosom SL 100%
- MH Star Canada Holdings Inc 100%
- Aosom Ireland Limited 100%
- Aosom Romania SRL 100%
Significant events
- “The UK ecommerce market has bounced back from its post COVID doldrums, and is forecast to have grown by almost 9% in 2024 (https://www.forbes.com/uk/advisor/business/ecommerce-statistics/).”
- “Against these market expectations, MH Star has delivered sales growth approaching 18% in the year.”
- “3PL services have been developed and are now delivered to external customers at two warehouses,”
- “Significant focus is being directed at the reduction of packaging materials used, as a direct result of the Plastic Packaging tax and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations; plus the forthcoming EPR II regulations.”
- “At 31 December 2023, the company concluded there was insufficient support for the carrying value of its US subsidiary, Aosom LLC. This had resulted in the US investment being fully impaired in the prior year.”
- “During the year the company issued at par 23,020,843 ordinary shares of £1 each on 26 July 2024. The purpose of the issue was to provide working capital for the expansion of the business and to increase the level of capital invested in subsidiaries.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PANCHMATIA, Arvindkumar | Secretary | 2021-06-15 | — | — |
| WANG, Chunhua | Director | 2010-08-31 | Oct 1971 | Chinese |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALEXANDER, Colin | Secretary | 2010-12-03 | 2021-06-15 |
| DUAN, Linfeng | Director | 2012-06-01 | 2013-01-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Guangyao Yan | Individual | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75% | 2024-01-01 | Active |
| Ms Chunhua Wang | Individual | Appoints directors, Significant influence | 2016-08-31 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 59 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-08-23 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-08-23 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-11 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-07-26 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-01-22 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-01-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-09 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-11-09 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-08-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-07-27 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2022-12-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-23 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-08-23 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2021-12-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-20 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2021-08-13 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 1
- 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.