RALPH COLEMAN INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Company number 03000135 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Ralph Coleman International Limited presents a medium-risk profile characterised by a strong operational recovery in FY2025 but underpinned by structural vulnerabilities. The company's near-total revenue dependency on its parent and majority shareholder, IFCO Systems UK Limited, creates concentration risk that cannot be diversified away. While the return to positive net assets, improved profitability, and enhanced cash position are encouraging, the thin capitalisation relative to revenue scale and historical equity volatility suggest the financial position remains fragile rather than firmly established. Parent company support provides a meaningful safety net but simultaneously reinforces the dependency dynamic that defines this investment's risk profile.
Shareholders' funds
£784,617
Balance sheet as at 2025-06-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be a specialist provider of outsourced supply chain services to providers of returnable transit packaging and retailers.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1994-12-09
- Employees
- 407 (2025 accounts · was 345 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 5th Floor 16 Great Queen Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2B 5DG
- Postcode
- WC2B 5DG
- Capital
- 5,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-06-30
- Next due by
- 2027-03-31
- Financial year end
- 30 June
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-12-09
- Next due by
- 2026-12-23
Nature of business (SIC)
- 52103 Operation of warehousing and storage facilities for land transport activities
- 81222 Specialised cleaning services
Officers 5 current · 11 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by IFCO SYSTEMS UK LTD — since 2022-07-04
Controlled by RALPH COLEMAN HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
Matched by registered name to the register of licensed sponsors (Home Office, updated daily) — check the register itself before relying on it. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Gender pay gap
4.3%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity
Contact details
- Website
- ralphcoleman.net
Previous registered addresses 8
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| UNIT 2 GRESHAM ROAD, BERMUDA INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, NUNEATON, WARWICKSHIRE, CV10 7QR | 2014-09-15 |
| ABELES WAY, HOLLY LANE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, ATHERSTONE, WARWICKSHIRE, CV9 2QX | 2010-03-03 |
| MANOR HOUSE FARM, SPON LANE GRENDON, ATHERSTONE, WARWICKSHIRE CV9 2EX | 2000-02-15 |
| MANOR HOUSE FARM, SPON LANE GRENDON, ATHERSTONE, WARWICKSHIRE CV9 2EX | 2000-02-15 |
| JAKNELL ROAD, DODWELLS BRIDGE IND'L ESTATE, HINKLEY, LEICESTER LE10 3BS | 1997-09-22 |
| JAKNELL ROAD, DODWELLS BRIDGE IND'L ESTATE, HINKLEY, LEICESTER LE10 3BS | 1997-09-22 |
| DODWELLS ROAD, DODWELLS BRIDGE IND. ESTATE, HINCKLEY, LE10 3BZ | 1996-05-20 |
| DODWELLS ROAD, DODWELLS BRIDGE IND. ESTATE, HINCKLEY, LE10 3BZ | 1996-05-20 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 30 similar companies in WC
The largest employer among its local peers (407 staff).
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1994.
Competitors London
This company ranks 2 among operation of warehousing and storage facilities for land transport activities in London.
The class of 1994
47%
of the 28,890 companies incorporated in 1994 are still active today; 50% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 2 titles
- Leasehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2018-10-25
- Where
- Warwickshire (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WK500744 | Warwickshire | Leasehold | 2018-10-25 | — |
| WK481976 | Warwickshire | Leasehold | 2015-12-21 | — |
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