CHOPSTIX TRADING LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-14 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-30
Watchouts
Cash
£3M
highest in 4 filed years
Net assets
£7M
highest in 4 filed years
Employees
216
highest in 4 filed years
Profit before tax
£1M
Period ending 2024-12-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
For this reason, the directors have concluded that the Company is no longer a going concern and these financials have therefore been prepared on this basis.
Net assets
5-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
5-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2021-04-25 | 2022-04-24 | 2023-04-23 | 2024-04-28 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £9,785,980 | £13,431,261 | £14,620,153 | £10,751,995 | |
| Operating profit | — | £960,420 | £1,804,620 | £1,683,142 | £1,467,336 | |
| Profit before tax | — | £965,187 | £1,804,620 | £1,683,142 | £1,458,352 | |
| Net profit | — | £944,570 | £1,719,157 | £1,680,352 | £1,464,691 | |
| Cash | — | £663,401 | £389,448 | £495,408 | £2,870,411 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £3,056,509 | £4,211,709 | £5,894,851 | £7,353,203 | |
| Net assets | — | £2,358,052 | £4,077,209 | £5,757,561 | £7,222,252 | |
| Equity | £1,413,482 | £2,358,052 | £4,077,209 | £5,757,561 | £7,222,252 | |
| Average employees | — | 162 | 208 | 211 | 216 | |
| Wages | — | £2,153,440 | £2,927,507 | £3,683,010 | £2,410,369 | |
| 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
FY2024 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2024-04-28
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2021-04-25 | 2022-04-24 | 2023-04-23 | 2024-04-28 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | 9.8% | 13.4% | 11.5% | 13.6% | |
| Net margin | — | 9.7% | 12.8% | 11.5% | 13.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 31.4% | 42.8% | 28.6% | 20.0% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | — | 2.27x | 2.78x | |
| Interest cover | — | — | — | — | 163.33x |
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
- HaysMac LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“For this reason, the directors have concluded that the Company is no longer a going concern and these financials have therefore been prepared on this basis.”
Group structure
- CHOPSTIX TRADING LIMITED · parent
- Antrim Centre Investments Ltd 100%
- Chopstix Glasgow Ltd 100%
- Chopstix Skelton Lake Ltd 100%
- Chopstix (Waverly) Limited 100%
- Thurloe Street Limited 100%
- Chopstix Reading Ltd 100%
- A3 Investment (Peterborough) Limited 100%
- Chopstix Baldock Limited 100%
- Chopstix Blackburn Limited 100%
- Chopstix Cardiff Limited 100%
- Chopstix Colchester Limited 100%
- Chopstix Gyle Centre Ltd 100%
- Chopstix Lewisham Limited 100%
- Chopstix Luton Limited 100%
- Chopstix Nottingham Ltd 100%
- Chopstix Sauchiehall Street Ltd 100%
- Chopstix Stratford Limited 100%
- Grampian Property Investment Ltd 100%
- Chopstix Colindale Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Chopstix Trading Limited achieved an adjusted EBITDA figure of £1.9mil profit, which includes an adjustment of £278K for exceptional costs. These include costs incurred on onerous utility contracts and exceptional payroll costs.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELIA, Bassam | Director | 2010-10-12 | Nov 1965 | British |
| SADIK, Menashe | Director | 2016-12-01 | Nov 1971 | British |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chopstix Group Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2017-04-30 | Active |
| Mr Bassam Elia | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-04-30 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 90 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-04-21 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-26 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2025-02-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-15 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-07-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-21 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-02-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2022-07-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-04-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2021-07-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-05-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2020-09-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-02-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2019-10-28 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part release with charge number | |
| 2019-08-05 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2019-07-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-02-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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.