GRIMALDI LIVERPOOL AGENCY LTD.
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Cash
£3.2m
+80.2% highest in 3 filed years
Net assets
£6.6m
+0.6% highest in 3 filed years
Employees
172
+8.9% highest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£1.4m
+0.5% highest in 3 filed years
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Confirmation statement overdue
Due 2026-08-08.
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Material uncertainty over going concern
The directors acknowledge that as with any Company placing reliance on other group entities for financial support, there can be no certainty that this support will continue although, at the date of approval of these financial statements, they have no reason to believe that it will not do so.
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Audit opinion: Qualified
Latest auditor's report carried a non-clean opinion.
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Going-concern uncertainty disclosed
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £9,354,300 | £9,905,238 | £11,086,095 | +11.9% | |
| Operating profit | £1,186,743 | £1,456,478 | £1,458,667 | +0.2% | |
| Profit before tax | £1,137,445 | £1,426,352 | £1,433,568 | +0.5% | |
| Net profit | £841,069 | £1,059,943 | £1,039,822 | -1.9% | |
| Cash | £766,737 | £1,793,394 | £3,231,245 | +80.2% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,888,221 | £7,388,164 | £6,886,205 | -6.8% | |
| Net assets | £5,543,529 | £6,603,471 | £6,643,293 | +0.6% | |
| Equity | £5,543,529 | £6,603,471 | £6,643,293 | +0.6% | |
| Average employees | 160 | 158 | 172 | +8.9% | |
| Wages | £5,441,881 | £5,522,093 | £6,202,340 | +12.3% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £163,546 | £171,999 | £174,020 | +1.2% |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 12.7% | 14.7% | 13.2% | |
| Net margin | 9.0% | 10.7% | 9.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 17.2% | 19.7% | 21.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 58.4% | 57.5% | — | |
| Current ratio | 0.90x | 1.01x | 0.97x | |
| Interest cover | 24.07x | 48.35x | 58.12x |
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 3 times since incorporation
- GRIMALDI LIVERPOOL AGENCY LTD. 2022-01-04 → present
- ATLANTIC CONTAINER LINE UK LIMITED 1995-10-10 → 2022-01-04
- ATLANTIC CONTAINER LINE AGENCIES (UK) LIMITED 1991-08-16 → 1995-10-10
- GOULDITAR NO. 130 LIMITED 1990-09-26 → 1991-08-16
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Barnes Roffe Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Qualified
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“The directors acknowledge that as with any Company placing reliance on other group entities for financial support, there can be no certainty that this support will continue although, at the date of approval of these financial statements, they have no reason to believe that it will not do so.”
Significant events
- “In 2025, the Board proposes a dividend payment of £1,000,000 (2024: £Nil)”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PERRY, John Clinton | Secretary | 2020-12-18 | — | — |
| BIANCO, Giovanni | Director | 2022-01-01 | May 1971 | Italian |
| GRIMALDI, Guido | Director | 2022-01-01 | Jun 1987 | Italian |
| KENNY, John Patrick | Director | 2022-01-01 | Feb 1965 | British |
| PATANÉ, Giuseppe | Director | 2022-01-01 | Mar 1979 | Italian |
| PERRY, John Clinton | Director | 2023-05-25 | Sep 1977 | British |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEAHY, Christopher John | Secretary | 1993-01-04 | 1997-12-24 |
| MCKENZIE, Christopher John | Secretary | 2003-03-14 | 2017-12-01 |
| STEPHENS, Christopher | Secretary | 2018-05-14 | 2020-03-16 |
| STEWART, Janice Elizabeth | Secretary | 1997-12-24 | 2003-03-14 |
| TURNER, Michael Stephen Venn | Secretary | — | 1993-01-04 |
| ABBOTT, Andrew | Director | 1998-07-27 | 2018-12-12 |
| ABBOTT, Andrew | Director | — | 1993-02-09 |
| FORSLER, Ake Ingemar | Director | — | 1993-02-09 |
| HIGBY, Ian Clinton | Director | 1996-08-01 | 2018-12-31 |
| IVARSSON, Anders Sven Ture | Director | 2018-12-12 | 2023-05-25 |
| LANGFORD, Brian Arthur | Director | 2005-11-21 | 2018-03-31 |
| LEAHY, Chris John | Director | 2018-05-11 | 2022-01-01 |
| RAKKENES, Olay Karl | Director | — | 1993-02-09 |
| ROSEN, Dan Axel | Director | 1993-02-09 | 2005-11-21 |
| RYDING, Gustaf Bernhard | Director | 1993-02-09 | 1998-03-31 |
| THATAI, Pradeep Kumar | Director | 1991-12-02 | 1994-02-28 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Andrew Abbott | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2022-01-01 |
| Atlantic Container Line Ab | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2022-01-01 |
| Mr Ian Clinton Higby | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-12-31 |
| Mr Brian Arthur Langford | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-03-31 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 143 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-01-04 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-15 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2022-09-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-05-05 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-05-05 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-01-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-01-04 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company |
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.