VITOL INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING (UK) SERVICES LIMITED
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Cash
£2.7m
-49% vs 2024
Net assets
£4.4m
+103% vs 2024
Employees
44
+57.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£3m
+3.2% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £32,109,995 | £33,525,063 | +4.4% | |
| Operating profit | £2,919,088 | £3,047,730 | +4.4% | |
| Profit before tax | £2,920,381 | £3,013,204 | +3.2% | |
| Net profit | £2,179,052 | £2,244,663 | +3% | |
| Cash | £5,247,912 | £2,674,698 | -49% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,179,152 | — | — | |
| Net assets | £2,179,152 | — | — | |
| Equity | £2,179,152 | £4,423,815 | +103% | |
| Average employees | 28 | 44 | +57.1% | |
| Wages | £23,014,934 | £24,825,423 | +7.9% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £3,014,221 | £5,376,927 | +78.4% | |
| Directors' pension contributions | £28,000 | £42,500 | +51.8% | |
| Highest paid director | £2,229,005 | £4,317,961 | +93.7% |
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 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 9.1% | 9.1% | |
| Net margin | 6.8% | 6.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 134.0% | — | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 93.2% | — | |
| Current ratio | 1.10x | — | |
| Interest cover | — | 43.80x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The company's financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025 have been prepared on a going concern basis as the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence and meet its commitments as they fall due from the date of approval of these financial statements to 31 July 2027 (the going concern period).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HARRISON, David Richard | Director | 2023-12-15 | Feb 1976 | British |
| REID, Peter James John | Director | 2023-12-15 | Sep 1978 | British |
| SAREEN, Neeraj | Director | 2023-12-15 | Oct 1971 | British |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 5 of 5 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-12-15 | NEWINC | incorporation | Incorporation company |
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.