AMPHORA TRADING LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-19
Overdue
Watchouts
Cash
£1M
-30.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£1M
-20.9% vs 2024
Employees
94
-29.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£595K
+137.5% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Confirmation statement overdue
Due 2026-05-19.
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
3-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-03-31 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £4,479,465 | £4,130,862 | |
| Operating profit | — | £197,050 | £559,084 | |
| Profit before tax | — | £250,578 | £595,059 | |
| Net profit | — | £251,542 | £459,878 | |
| Cash | — | £1,998,216 | £1,380,003 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | — | |
| Net assets | — | £1,716,866 | £1,357,315 | |
| Equity | — | £1,716,866 | £1,357,315 | |
| Average employees | — | 133 | 94 | |
| Wages | — | £1,754,782 | £1,466,805 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | £247,818 | — |
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 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
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Turnover
-7.8%
£4,479,465 £4,130,862
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Cash
-30.9%
£1,998,216 £1,380,003
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Net assets
-20.9%
£1,716,866 £1,357,315
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Employees
-29.3%
133 94
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Operating profit
+183.7%
£197,050 £559,084
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Profit before tax
+137.5%
£250,578 £595,059
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Wages
-16.4%
£1,754,782 £1,466,805
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 | 2023-03-31 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | 4.4% | 13.5% | |
| Net margin | — | 5.6% | 11.1% | |
| Current ratio | — | 2.43x | 2.26x | |
| Interest cover | — | — | 191.40x |
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
- AMPHORA TRADING LTD 2026-04-20 → present
- COLCHESTER AMPHORA TRADING LIMITED 2017-10-24 → 2026-04-20
- CASTLE TRADING (COLCHESTER) LIMITED 2017-06-01 → 2017-10-24
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Affinia (Stratford)
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have prepared cashflow forecasts which anticipate that the company will be able to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due and the directors are satisfied that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, and for a period of at least 12 months from the date of approving these financial statements. If required the company will be supported by Colchester City Council. For this reason the directors adopt the going concern basis in preparing the accounts.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COWARD, Simon Gerard | Director | 2024-06-11 | Oct 1969 | British |
| WILSON, Alistair | Director | 2023-01-01 | Dec 1965 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELL, Rachel | Secretary | 2022-08-02 | 2024-10-31 |
| PARKER, Amy Jacqueline | Secretary | 2020-06-17 | 2021-07-19 |
| SMITH, Paul Thomson | Secretary | 2021-07-19 | 2022-08-02 |
| BELL, Rachel | Director | 2022-12-09 | 2024-10-31 |
| DUHAMEL, Fiona Juliet | Director | 2017-09-28 | 2019-06-03 |
| GASCOYNE, Daniel James | Director | 2021-05-19 | 2022-10-21 |
| PRITCHARD, Adrian Roy | Director | 2017-06-01 | 2022-03-31 |
| SMITH, Paul Thomson | Director | 2019-08-27 | 2023-01-31 |
| VIPOND, Ian William | Director | 2017-09-28 | 2021-04-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colchester Commercial (Holdings) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2017-06-01 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 44 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-04-20 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2026-04-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-23 | DISS40 | gazette | Gazette filings brought up to date | |
| 2025-07-22 | GAZ1 | gazette | Gazette notice compulsory | |
| 2025-07-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-26 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-17 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-01-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-12-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-11-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-08-16 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name 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.