URBAN LOGISTICS (UK) LIMITED
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Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£2.6m
+22.5% highest in 6 filed years
Employees
24
0% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£622k
+19.5% highest in 4 filed years
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 | — | — | £9,988,218 | £8,877,682 | £9,010,811 | £9,358,641 | +3.9% | |
| Operating profit | — | — | £97,182 | £168,150 | £420,302 | £540,716 | +28.6% | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £94,456 | £243,021 | £520,260 | £621,574 | +19.5% | |
| Net profit | £437,921 | £457,564 | — | £183,356 | £396,629 | £486,453 | +22.6% | |
| Cash | — | £6,459 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,075,577 | £1,533,141 | £1,582,486 | £1,765,842 | £2,162,471 | £2,671,553 | +23.5% | |
| Net assets | £1,075,577 | £1,533,141 | £1,582,486 | £1,765,842 | £2,162,471 | £2,648,924 | +22.5% | |
| Equity | £1,075,577 | £1,533,141 | £1,582,486 | £1,765,842 | £2,162,471 | £2,648,924 | +22.5% | |
| Average employees | 19 | 22 | 23 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 0% | |
| Wages | £621,875 | £733,651 | £816,633 | £859,468 | £952,083 | £942,374 | -1% | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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 | — | — | 1.0% | 1.9% | 4.7% | 5.8% | |
| Net margin | — | — | — | 2.1% | 4.4% | 5.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | — | 6.1% | 9.5% | 19.4% | 20.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 61.8% | 44.6% | 62.5% | 43.3% | 42.4% | 39.4% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | — | — | 2.27x | 2.46x | |
| Interest cover | — | — | 12.40x | — | — | — |
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
- URBAN LOGISTICS (UK) LIMITED 2005-04-26 → present
- URBAN-TRANSPORTS LIMITED 1991-11-20 → 2005-04-26
- FORK TRUCK PARTS LIMITED 1987-02-25 → 1991-11-20
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which the directors consider to be appropriate... KION Group AG has indicated its intention to continue to make available such funds as needed by the company”
Significant events
- “During the year the directors made the decision to reclassify all the amounts related companies trade debtors to 'amounts owed by entities under common control'.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WRIGLEY, James Anthony | Secretary | 2025-12-01 | — | — |
| BECKER, Felix | Director | 2020-06-01 | Feb 1969 | German |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLEBTA, Colin | Secretary | 2013-01-25 | 2023-04-30 |
| LUDWIG, Marcel | Secretary | 2023-04-29 | 2025-12-31 |
| SIMMONDS, Peter John | Secretary | — | 2012-12-31 |
| GEUECKE, Wolfgang Dieter | Director | 2002-07-01 | 2007-12-31 |
| GEUECKE, Wolfgang Dieter | Director | 1994-03-31 | 1999-03-30 |
| HOFMANN, Thorsten | Director | 1999-01-25 | 2002-07-01 |
| JURGENZ, Heinz | Director | — | 1994-03-31 |
| LUDWIG, Marcel Werner | Director | 2023-04-01 | 2023-04-30 |
| PFEIL, Ernst Richard | Director | — | 2001-07-12 |
| SADLER, Dirk | Director | 2001-07-12 | 2020-05-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kion Group Ag | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-04-06 |
| Urban-Transporte Gmbh | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-04-06 |
| Kion Group Ag | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 125 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-07-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-02 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-12 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-09-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-13 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-08-13 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-09-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2023-09-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-05 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-05 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-04-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-09-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-07-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2021-09-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-05-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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.