Firwood Paints Limited
Registered name: FIRWOOD PAINTS LIMITED
Part of Duke Capital Limited groupFirwood Paints Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Mar 2023 show net assets of £848k and 23 employees.
Firwood Paints Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 Mar 2023 showed net assets of £848k and 23 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of paints, varnishes and similar coatings, mastics and sealants” and is based in Redditch; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Redditch, West Midlands
- Age
- 101 yrs · since 1925
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Firwood Paints Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Mar 2023 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a profit & loss account — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 23
- Net assets
- £848k
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No profit & loss | No profit & loss |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 28 | 23 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Headcount growth | — | ▼17.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £21.6k | £66.3k |
| Net assets | £1.1m | £848k |
| Fixed assets | £770k | £570k |
| Current assets | £3.6m | £4m |
| Debtors | £1.1m | £1.1m |
| Deferred income | £75.5k | £257k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 |
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▼26%
- Now £848k
- Cash at bank
- ▲207%
- Now £66.3k
- Headcount
- ▼18%
- Now 23
- Deferred income
- ▲240%
- Now £257k
- Fixed assets
- ▼26%
- Now £570k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Duke Capital Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Trimite Top Co Limited75–100%
- Trimite Bid Co Limited75–100%
- Trimite Global Coatings Group Limited75–100%
- Firwood Paints Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2023, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026