ELLSWORTH ADHESIVES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-06-30 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-08 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-05-25
Watchouts
Cash
£10M
+29% vs 2024
Net assets
£16M
+5.6% vs 2024
Employees
156
+2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£844K
-30.8% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £34,848,484 | £35,029,390 | |
| Operating profit | £1,130,053 | £682,010 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,220,177 | £844,219 | |
| Net profit | £825,276 | £496,960 | |
| Cash | £7,631,734 | £9,842,840 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £14,552,475 | £15,419,935 | |
| Net assets | £15,298,934 | £16,148,780 | |
| Equity | £15,298,934 | £16,148,780 | |
| Average employees | 153 | 156 | |
| Wages | £6,525,434 | £6,691,928 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £301,865 | £239,206 |
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 2025-09-30 vs 2024-09-30
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Turnover
+0.5%
£34,848,484 £35,029,390
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Cash
+29%
£7,631,734 £9,842,840
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Net assets
+5.6%
£15,298,934 £16,148,780
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Employees
+2%
153 156
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Operating profit
-39.6%
£1,130,053 £682,010
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Profit before tax
-30.8%
£1,220,177 £844,219
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Wages
+2.6%
£6,525,434 £6,691,928
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 | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.2% | 1.9% | |
| Net margin | 2.4% | 1.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.8% | 4.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 22.2% | 22.7% | |
| Current ratio | 3.69x | 3.71x | |
| Interest cover | 62.59x | 290.22x |
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
- ELLSWORTH ADHESIVES LIMITED 2004-12-30 → present
- KELTECH LIMITED 1990-04-11 → 2004-12-30
- EASYSIZE LIMITED 1990-01-29 → 1990-04-11
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Henderson Loggie LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on these assessments and having regard to the resources available to the company and group, the directors have concluded that there is no material uncertainty and that they can continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual report and financial statements.”
Group structure
- ELLSWORTH ADHESIVES LIMITED · parent
- Ellsworth Adhesives AB 100%
- Ellsworth Adhesives (Deutschland) GmbH 100%
- Ellsworth Adhesives France 100%
- Ellsworth Adhesives Iberica SL 100%
- Ellsworth Adhesives Ireland Limited 100%
- Ellsworth Adhesives Poland 100%
- Fisnar Europe Limited 100%
- Fluid Research Limited 100%
- Glue Dots International Limited 100%
- John Burn & Company (Birmingham) Limited 100%
- Robnor Resinlab Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Fiscal 2025 turnover was constrained by a decline in the Polish automotive sector and heightened competition in Spain and France.”
- “Fiscal 2025 saw robust growth in Aerospace, Defence, Healthcare, and Electronics, offset by reduced Automotive sales. The Group aims to continue this organic growth in the coming year.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 18 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COPPS, Andrew Joseph | Director | 2025-01-22 | Jun 1972 | American |
| DUFRESNE, Steven Michael | Director | 2025-01-22 | Jul 1970 | Canadian |
| ELLSWORTH, Ephraim Paul | Director | 2016-09-01 | Oct 1975 | American |
| SCHLEIFER, Nathan August | Director | 2025-01-22 | Jan 1975 | American |
Show 18 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DALZIEL, David | Secretary | 1990-03-30 | 1990-12-18 |
| GILLAN, Crawford Wilson | Secretary | 2008-11-01 | 2015-02-20 |
| HENDERSON, Aileen Margaret | Secretary | 2003-05-19 | 2006-02-01 |
| HENDERSON, John Rae | Secretary | 2006-01-31 | 2008-11-01 |
| HENDERSON, John Rae | Secretary | 1998-12-05 | 2003-05-19 |
| BALLANTYNE & COPLAND | Corporate Secretary | 1990-11-05 | 1998-12-05 |
| BRUCE, Jean Elizabeth Francis | Director | 1990-03-30 | 1999-05-28 |
| ELLSWORTH, Paul | Director | 2003-08-11 | 2004-07-01 |
| GILLAN, Crawford Wilson | Director | 2008-11-01 | 2015-02-20 |
| HARRISON, Thomas Arnott | Director | 1999-05-28 | 2003-05-19 |
| HENDERSON, John Rae | Director | 1995-05-01 | 2025-01-22 |
| HETMAN, Ronald Michael | Director | 1992-02-10 | 1997-01-26 |
| JANSSON, Rein Sahlestrom | Director | 2004-07-01 | 2006-01-31 |
| MCCOURT, Michael | Director | 2006-02-01 | 2014-01-08 |
| NICHOLS, Malcolm | Director | 1995-05-01 | 1997-01-26 |
| REPENSEK, William George | Director | 2004-07-01 | 2016-06-22 |
| SHOOK, Bruce | Director | 2003-08-11 | 2004-07-01 |
| WOLOSZYK, David John | Director | 2014-01-08 | 2022-11-23 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Patricia Friend Ellsworth | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2024-05-15 | Active |
| Mr Paul Rawson Ellsworth | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2016-10-01 | Ceased 2024-06-09 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 166 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-05-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-06-18 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-06-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-16 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-02-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-06-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-11-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-06-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-02-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-11-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-02-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-12-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2020-01-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
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.