BECK & POLLITZER LIMITED
Operating globally from its Dartford headquarters, the privately owned company provides industrial machinery installation and relocation services across sectors such as aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing.
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Cash
£7.5m
+94.2% highest in 3 filed years
Net assets
-£54m
-2.5% vs 2024
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£4.1m
+38.3% highest in 3 filed years
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Negative shareholders' funds
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 | £134,426,000 | £148,146,000 | £164,368,000 | +11% | |
| Operating profit | -£777,000 | £1,359,000 | £5,090,000 | +274.5% | |
| Profit before tax | -£10,301,000 | -£6,606,000 | -£4,079,000 | +38.3% | |
| Net profit | -£9,709,000 | -£7,882,000 | -£2,586,000 | +67.2% | |
| Cash | £7,286,000 | £3,848,000 | £7,471,000 | +94.2% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £31,270,000 | £24,277,000 | £30,151,000 | +24.2% | |
| Net assets | -£60,384,000 | -£52,269,000 | -£53,595,000 | -2.5% | |
| Equity | -£60,384,000 | -£52,269,000 | -£53,595,000 | -2.5% | |
| Average employees | 846 | 926 | — | — | |
| Wages | £33,300,000 | £43,051,000 | £56,503,000 | +31.2% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £822,000 | £631,000 | £921,000 | +46% |
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 | -0.6% | 0.9% | 3.1% | |
| Net margin | -7.2% | -5.3% | -1.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | -2.5% | 5.6% | 16.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 189.8% | 174.5% | 175.7% | |
| Current ratio | 0.95x | 0.93x | 0.98x | |
| Interest cover | -0.09x | 0.16x | 0.65x |
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
- BECK & POLLITZER LIMITED 2017-12-12 → present
- BURGUNDY TOPCO LIMITED 2016-09-01 → 2017-12-12
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on this assessment, the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, being at least twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements. Accordingly, the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- BECK & POLLITZER LIMITED · parent
- Beck & Pollitzer Polska Sp. z o.o. 100%
- Beck & Pollitzer Romania SRL 100%
- Beck & Pollitzer Slovakia s.r.o. 100%
- mp-montageprofis-Verwaltungs GmbH 100%
- Beck & Pollitzer Deutschland GmbH 100%
- Beck & Pollitzer Australia PTY LTD 100%
- Beck & Pollitzer India Private Ltd 100%
- Beck & Pollitzer Italia srl 100%
- Beck & Pollitzer Sweden AB 100%
- Beck & Pollitzer Japan K.K. 100%
- Beck & Pollitzer Belgium 100%
- Clarkson Industrial Contractors Inc. 100%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAFFYN, Andrew David | Director | 2021-04-08 | Mar 1964 | British |
| HARRIS, Simon James | Director | 2024-02-13 | Mar 1977 | British |
| PROUVOST, Romain Jean Patrick | Director | 2016-09-19 | Aug 1979 | French |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRAYTON, Richard Martin | Director | 2016-09-01 | 2016-09-19 |
| HODGSON, Andrew | Director | 2016-09-19 | 2022-09-08 |
| MATTHEWS, Charles Lewis | Director | 2016-09-19 | 2021-02-23 |
| MILNER, Andrew Rex | Director | 2022-09-26 | 2023-07-14 |
| RUNCIMAN, Fraser Dinning | Director | 2016-09-19 | 2017-10-31 |
| VESSELINOV, Ivaylo Alexandrov | Director | 2017-09-04 | 2023-12-12 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graphite Capital Management Llp | Corporate entity | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors | 2016-09-01 | Ceased 2022-09-12 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 69 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-02-11 MA Memorandum articles
- 2026-02-03 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-04-07 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-04-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-02-11 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2026-02-03 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-12-03 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-08-21 | AAMD | accounts | Accounts amended with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-05-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-08-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-05-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-04-07 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-04-07 | SH10 | capital | Capital variation of rights attached to shares | |
| 2024-04-06 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2024-04-02 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-02-14 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-02-14 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-02-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-01-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- 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.