CHAMBERS AND COOK FREIGHT LIMITED
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Cash
£1.1m
-32.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£3.9m
+1% highest in 3 filed years
Employees
112
-5.9% lowest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£189k
-76% lowest in 3 filed years
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £18,568,892 | £17,455,741 | £15,797,783 | -9.5% | |
| Operating profit | £583,461 | £874,338 | £263,415 | -69.9% | |
| Profit before tax | £505,559 | £786,015 | £188,815 | -76% | |
| Net profit | £451,936 | £693,614 | £140,164 | -79.8% | |
| Cash | £783,562 | £1,578,587 | £1,063,540 | -32.6% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £5,179,065 | £5,717,670 | £5,679,998 | -0.7% | |
| Net assets | £3,177,387 | £3,871,001 | £3,911,165 | +1% | |
| Equity | £3,177,387 | £3,871,001 | £3,911,165 | +1% | |
| Average employees | 125 | 119 | 112 | -5.9% | |
| Wages | £4,062,217 | £3,868,626 | £3,694,483 | -4.5% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £250,000 | — | — | — |
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 | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.1% | 5.0% | 1.7% | |
| Net margin | 2.4% | 4.0% | 0.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 11.3% | 15.3% | 4.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 59.0% | 56.7% | — | |
| Current ratio | 1.78x | 1.79x | 1.70x | |
| Interest cover | 7.49x | 9.90x | 3.53x |
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
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the point of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements. Thus, the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “insurance reimbursement asset following fire damage to the Company's factory during the year. While the total cost of the rebuild is not yet known, all losses and exceptional business interruption costs incurred to date are covered by valid insurance.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FORREST, Simon Roy | Secretary | 2019-12-01 | — | — |
| BLACKBURN, Paul Mark | Director | 1995-10-01 | Apr 1962 | British |
| STEPHENSON, Jamie | Director | 2023-08-06 | Nov 1972 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLACKBURN, Christopher Peter | Secretary | 1995-10-01 | 1995-10-01 |
| BLACKBURN, Joseph Whitney | Secretary | — | 1998-09-08 |
| PHILLIPS, Julie Anne | Secretary | 1998-09-08 | 2019-11-30 |
| BLACKBURN, Anne Valerie | Director | — | 2001-08-07 |
| BLACKBURN, Christopher Peter | Director | 1995-10-01 | 2023-08-04 |
| BLACKBURN, Joseph Whitney | Director | — | 2009-04-10 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chambers And Cook ( European Services) Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 103 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-08 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-08-08 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-08-08 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-08-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-02-02 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2021-08-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-06-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-08-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-03-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-12-30 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date |
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.