POETON INDUSTRIES LIMITED
Company number 00246071 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Poeton Industries Limited presents a mixed risk profile characterized by a solid balance sheet but deteriorating cash flow and margin pressure. While the company benefits from a long track record, growing net assets, and a diversified customer base, the 2024 financials reveal a concerning trend of declining gross profits and shrinking cash reserves despite rising turnover. The substantial dividend payouts to its parent holding companies during a period of cash contraction require careful scrutiny to ensure the operating entity is not being undercapitalized.
Shareholders' funds
£3,330,073
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of surface engineering.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1930-02-26
- Employees
- 173 (2025 accounts · was 187 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Eastern Avenue, Gloucester, GL4 3DN
- Postcode
- GL4 3DN
- Capital
- 26,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Medium
- Charges
- 1 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
- 2025-12-28
- Next due by
- 2027-01-11
Nature of business (SIC)
- 25610 Treatment and coating of metals
Officers 3 current · 19 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by POETON HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2024-12-14
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB742489 (Tier 2), registered since 2024.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Political donations 5
£26,500 in registered political donations since 2004.
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Conservative and Unionist Party
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Conservative and Unionist Party
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Conservative and Unionist Party
Showing the 3 most recent of 5.
Source: the Electoral Commission's register of donations — this company's full record, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contact details
- Website
- poeton.co.uk
- Phone
- 01452300500
Poeton are surface engineering specialists providing advanced Apticote treatments to ensure designers can successfully push the limits of conventional materials
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| A.T.POETON (GLOUCESTER PLATING) LIMITED | 1999-10-19 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 15 similar companies in GL
The largest employer among its local peers (173 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1930.
Competitors Cheltenham
This company ranks 1 among treatment and coating of metals in Cheltenham.
Property in England & Wales 3 titles
- Leasehold
- 3
- Most recent registration
- 2013-10-30
- Where
- Gloucestershire (2), Cardiff (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR377795 | Gloucestershire | Leasehold | 2013-10-30 | — |
| CYM106866 | Cardiff | Leasehold | 2003-01-09 | — |
| GR256824 | Gloucestershire | Leasehold | 2003-01-09 | — |
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