CUSTOM GLASS LIMITED
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Cash
£1.7M
-79.7% lowest in 3 filed years
Net assets
£9.6M
-44.2% lowest in 3 filed years
Employees
135
+7.1% highest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£3.8M
+5.8% highest in 3 filed years
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
3-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £15,436,681 | £14,708,975 | £15,497,176 | +5.4% | |
| Operating profit | £3,306,065 | £3,401,877 | £3,633,493 | +6.8% | |
| Profit before tax | £3,347,416 | £3,636,016 | £3,848,652 | +5.8% | |
| Net profit | £2,685,621 | £2,707,442 | £3,100,759 | +14.5% | |
| Cash | £6,033,572 | £8,424,138 | £1,711,125 | -79.7% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £15,347,140 | £17,677,446 | £9,839,600 | -44.3% | |
| Net assets | £14,597,611 | £17,171,053 | £9,581,727 | -44.2% | |
| Equity | £14,597,611 | £17,171,053 | £9,581,727 | -44.2% | |
| Average employees | 132 | 126 | 135 | +7.1% | |
| Wages | £3,360,871 | £3,583,145 | £4,018,482 | +12.1% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £33,873 | £94,227 | £192,755 | +104.6% |
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 | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 21.4% | 23.1% | 23.4% | |
| Net margin | 17.4% | 18.4% | 20.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 21.5% | 19.2% | 36.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 22.2% | 21.8% | |
| Current ratio | — | 4.39x | 4.12x |
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 1 time since incorporation
- CUSTOM GLASS LIMITED 2006-02-06 → present
- CUSTOM GLASS HOLDINGS LIMITED 1999-04-26 → 2006-02-06
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Monetta LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “On 24 March 2025, 100 percent of the issued share capital of the parent company was acquired by the Custom Glass Employee Ownership Trust.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOOSON, Jeffrey Robert | Director | 2005-07-04 | Sep 1962 | British |
| VINT, Andrew Dennis | Director | 2024-03-01 | Jul 1967 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| FINNEGAN, Joan | Secretary | 2005-07-04 | 2007-04-19 |
| HOOSON, Jeffrey Robert | Secretary | 2007-04-19 | 2019-08-15 |
| WOOLLEY, Maureen Patricia | Secretary | 1999-04-26 | 2005-07-04 |
| SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1999-04-26 | 1999-04-26 |
| FINNEGAN, Joan | Director | 2001-01-16 | 2005-07-04 |
| FINNEGAN, Paul John | Director | 2005-07-04 | 2019-08-15 |
| WOOLLEY, Peter | Director | 1999-04-26 | 2005-07-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Custom Glass Group Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-08-29 |
| Brabco 620 Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 110 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-04-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-04-01 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2026-03-27 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-09-09 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-09 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-05-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type medium | |
| 2025-05-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-12-03 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-12-03 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-12-03 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-12-03 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-05-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-03-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-04-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-02-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-05-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- 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.