Martin Colour Company Limited
Registered name: MARTIN COLOUR COMPANY LIMITED
Part of James Kent Consolidated Limited groupMartin Colour Company Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 4 Jan 2026 show net assets of £74.8k and 6 employees.
Martin Colour Company 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 4 Jan 2026 showed net assets of £74.8k and 6 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of dyes and pigments” and is based in Stoke-on-Trent; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands
- Age
- 85 yrs · since 1940
- 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. From the filing: “The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of James Kent Consolidated Limited, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom. Its registered address is Fountain Street, Fenton, Stoke-onTrent, Staffordshi”
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Martin Colour Company Limited’s accounts for the year to 4 Jan 2026 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 P&L — 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
- 6
- Net assets
- £74.8k
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 29 Dec 2024 | 4 Jan 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £26.9k | £50.3k | £55.9k |
| Net assets | £84.2k | £86.3k | £74.8k |
| Current assets | £154k | £118k | £108k |
| Debtors | £28.8k | £28.9k | £22.1k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
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
- ▼13%
- Now £74.8k
- Cash at bank
- ▲11%
- Now £55.9k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 6
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- James Kent Consolidated Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Martin Colour Company Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (5)
- Cera Dynamics LimitedFigures not disclosed
- James Kent (Ceramic Materials) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- James Kent Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
- K M C I LimitedFigures not disclosed
- P.e. Hines LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 4 Jan 2026, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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