GRIMALDI AGENCIES UK LIMITED
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Cash
£876k
+459.1% highest in 6 filed years
Net assets
£8.8m
-1.7% vs 2024
Employees
69
+1.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£159k
-683.9% lowest in 6 filed years
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Audit opinion: Qualified
Latest auditor's report carried a non-clean opinion.
Net assets
6-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
6-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2020-12-31 | 2021-12-31 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £6,202,370 | £6,337,372 | £7,157,313 | £7,288,109 | £7,096,116 | £7,256,215 | +2.3% | |
| Operating profit | £774,573 | £721,640 | £682,649 | £359,742 | £104,447 | -£84,920 | -181.3% | |
| Profit before tax | £696,756 | £668,979 | £606,245 | £283,549 | £27,252 | -£159,125 | -683.9% | |
| Net profit | £562,736 | £541,695 | £490,958 | £56,324 | £20,439 | -£151,707 | -842.2% | |
| Cash | £47,584 | £246,263 | £148,072 | £10,761 | £156,671 | £875,884 | +459.1% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £8,913,597 | £14,104,005 | £14,303,493 | £14,323,935 | £14,172,227 | -1.1% | |
| Net assets | — | £8,404,195 | £8,895,153 | £8,951,477 | £8,971,919 | £8,820,211 | -1.7% | |
| Equity | £7,862,500 | £8,404,195 | £8,895,153 | £8,951,477 | £8,971,919 | £8,820,211 | -1.7% | |
| Average employees | 70 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 68 | 69 | +1.5% | |
| Wages | £3,930,349 | £3,945,195 | £4,625,930 | £5,021,244 | £4,810,686 | £4,762,090 | -1% | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | £436,798 | £515,029 | £568,684 | £530,450 | £558,650 | +5.3% |
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 | 2020-12-31 | 2021-12-31 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 12.5% | 11.4% | 9.5% | 4.9% | 1.5% | -1.2% | |
| Net margin | 9.1% | 8.5% | 6.9% | 0.8% | 0.3% | -2.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 8.1% | 4.8% | 2.5% | 0.7% | -0.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 47.9% | — | 44.8% | 45.3% | — | |
| Current ratio | — | — | — | 0.27x | 0.32x | 0.43x | |
| Interest cover | — | 13.28x | 8.66x | 4.42x | 1.31x | -1.05x |
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
- GRIMALDI AGENCIES UK LIMITED 1999-11-29 → present
- ASSOCIATED OCEANIC AGENCIES (U.K.) LIMITED 1973-08-20 → 1999-11-29
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Barnes Roffe Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Qualified
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Significant events
- “There have been no events occurring since the year end to be reported, but this is subject to continuing potential impacts from Brexit and the ongoing East European conflict.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRIMALDI, Gian-Luca | Director | 1999-01-01 | May 1955 | Italian |
| KENNY, John Patrick | Director | 2025-03-07 | Feb 1965 | British |
| PACELLA, Diego | Director | 1999-01-01 | Jul 1960 | Italian |
| POSTLETHWAITE, John Roy | Director | — | Mar 1947 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANCE, Michael Robert | Secretary | 2014-02-05 | 2017-12-31 |
| ROBERTS, Brian | Secretary | — | 2014-02-05 |
| BACON, Newton | Director | — | 1993-01-10 |
| GRIMALDI, Emanuele | Director | — | 1997-12-31 |
| GRIMALDI, Gian-Luca | Director | — | 1997-12-31 |
| MAMMALELLA, Raffaele | Director | — | 1991-12-01 |
| SHORTT, Bernard | Director | 1994-01-01 | 2024-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grimaldi Group S.P.A. | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-07-01 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 124 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-22 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-09-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-10-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-12-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-10-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-10-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-10-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2018-10-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2018-10-08 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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.