Universal Pallet Services Limited
Registered name: UNIVERSAL PALLET SERVICES LIMITED
Part of A & B Containers Limited groupUniversal Pallet Services Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 30 Jun 2025 show net assets of £1.2m and 15 employees.
Universal Pallet Services 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 30 Jun 2025 showed net assets of £1.2m and 15 employees. The company is classified under “non-specialised wholesale trade” and is based in Manchester; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Manchester, North West
- Age
- 48 yrs · since 1977
- 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
Universal Pallet Services Limited’s accounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 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
- 15
- Net assets
- £1.2m
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 12 | 14 | 15 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Headcount growth | — | — | ▲7.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £716k | £795k | £1m |
| Net assets | £868k | £1.1m | £1.2m |
| Fixed assets | £200k | £331k | £288k |
| Current assets | £1.1m | £1.2m | £1.4m |
| Debtors | £275k | £299k | £307k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
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
- ▲18%
- Now £1.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲31%
- Now £1m
- Headcount
- ▲7%
- Now 15
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼13%
- Now £288k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- A & B Containers Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Universal Pallet Services 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 30 Jun 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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