FMS FOILS GROUP LIMITED
Company number 03563351 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
FMS Foils Group stands at a strategic inflection point following its acquisition by WZ Packaging, with genuine opportunities in sustainable packaging and European expansion counterbalanced by immediate financial fragility and integration risk. The company's specialist manufacturing capabilities and 27-year market position provide a defensible foundation, but the negative shareholders' funds, going concern uncertainty, and profitability erosion demand urgent operational and financial stabilisation before growth ambitions can be credibly pursued. Success hinges on WZ Packaging's ability to deliver promised synergies while maintaining the customer relationships and technical expertise that underpin FMS Foils' market position.
Shareholders' funds
-£241,492
Balance sheet as at 2025-02-28
What it does
The principal activity of the company and group continued to be that of manufacturers and printers of flexible packaging.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1998-05-13
- Employees
- 57 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- 1 The Forum Coopers Way, Temple Farm Industrial Estate, Southend On Sea, Essex, SS2 5TE
- Postcode
- SS2 5TE
- Capital
- 50,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 6 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-03-25
- Next due by
- 2027-04-08
Nature of business (SIC)
- 32990 Other manufacturing not elsewhere classified
Officers 2 current · 9 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by WZ PACKAGING LIMITED — since 2025-09-29
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB231290 (Tier 2), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- fmsfoils.co.uk
- Phone
- +44 1702463566, +44 1702616954
FMS foils group is a leading UK supplier of confectionery foils, laminated carton board, metalized board, metalised board and holographic board.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| A M (HOLDINGS) LIMITED | 2015-01-30 |
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| KENWAY WORKS, KENWAY, SOUTHEND ON SEA, SS2 5DY | 2007-03-06 |
| WICKFIELD HOUSE, 18-22 DISNEY PLACE, LONDON, SE1 1HS | 1998-12-09 |
| 31 CORSHAM STREET, LONDON, N1 6DR | 1998-05-26 |
Among its peers
Among the biggest employers
of 106 similar companies in SS, with 57 staff. Among the oldest 25% of its local peers.
Competitors Basildon
This company ranks 125 among other manufacturing not elsewhere classified in Basildon.
The class of 1998
49%
of the 423 companies in this sector incorporated in 1998 are still active today; 48% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 6 titles
- Leasehold
- 6
- Most recent registration
- 2019-12-20
- Where
- Southend-On-Sea (6)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA8144 | Southend-On-Sea | Leasehold | 2019-12-20 | — |
| AA2666 | Southend-On-Sea | Leasehold | 2019-09-13 | — |
| AA1952 | Southend-On-Sea | Leasehold | 2019-08-30 | — |
| EX920740 | Southend-On-Sea | Leasehold | 2015-05-15 | — |
| EX892380 | Southend-On-Sea | Leasehold | 2013-06-05 | — |
| EX867776 | Southend-On-Sea | Leasehold | 2011-07-18 | — |
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