LISTERS CENTRAL LIMITED

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

• Turnover

  +9%

  £17,310,024 → £18,872,476

  highest in 5 filed years

• Cash

  +147.6%

  £65,322 → £161,767

  highest in 6 filed years

• Net assets

  +5.5%

  £966,656 → £1,019,932

  highest in 6 filed years

• Employees

  -8.3%

  169 → 155

• Operating profit

  -59.5%

  £539,836 → £218,726

  first positive since 2020

• Profit before tax

  -81.9%

  £388,322 → £70,326

  first positive since 2020

• Wages

  +0.5%

  £4,436,144 → £4,457,588

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

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.

1. LISTERS CENTRAL LIMITED 2017-09-11 → present
2. DPPW LIMITED 2017-09-06 → 2017-09-11

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Mercer & Hole LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “The invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 triggered the start of a renewed spiral in supply chain costs for the fenestration sector. Unlike the cost spiral that followed the first lock down in 2020 the associated increases in household living costs and interest rates resulted in a significant decline in consumer confidence, a leading indicator for most of our business. This in turn has caused a marked decline in consumer demand for fenestration products, sadly this has led to a number of businesses in our sector closing.”
• “We have an effective and professional sales and marketing team who have risen to the challenges of a tough market by continuing to increase our market share in our traditional segments and by continuing to add other segments with more resilient end-user demand. We are pleased to report that in the year to 31 October 2024 we continued our trend of top-line growth against a backdrop which has seen many of our competitors report reductions in sales. Delivering this strategy has required continued investment in people, sales and marketing resource and continued investment in our manufacturing activities.”
• “We have already achieved ISO 14001 at both of our factories and ISO 50001 (environmental and energy management) is in place at the company's factories. This is an important step in our continuous process of embedding environment and energy management within our business and in managing our Scope 1 and 2 emissions.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

2

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.