RIBBLE PACKAGING LIMITED
Company number 00521820 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Ribble Packaging demonstrates robust financial health, leveraging a strengthened balance sheet and strategic capital investments to successfully navigate a stagnant UK corrugated packaging market. While experiencing slight EBITDA margin compression from 14.9% to 13.7%, the company's proactive pivot towards "right-size" packaging solutions positions it favorably against incoming Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation, capturing market share from larger competitors. Their index-linked pricing models and targeted energy efficiency investments effectively mitigate sector-wide input cost volatility, securing a highly competitive niche in the mid-market packaging space.
Shareholders' funds
£17,264,489
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be the design and manufacture of corrugated packaging.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1953-07-16
- Employees
- 129 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- Greengate Street, Oldham, Lancashire, OL4 1DF
- Postcode
- OL4 1DF
- Capital
- 10,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 9 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
- 2026-09-06
- Next due by
- 2027-09-20
Nature of business (SIC)
- 17211 Manufacture of corrugated paper and paperboard, sacks and bags
Officers 5 current · 16 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by RIBBLE HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z6087290 (Tier 2), registered since 2003.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| F & D PACKAGING LIMITED | 1976-12-31 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 21 similar companies in OL — measured against the wider sector
The largest employer among its local peers (129 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1953.
Property in England & Wales 3 titles
- Freehold
- 1
- Leasehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2004-12-10
- Where
- Greater Manchester (3)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAN2539 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2004-12-10 | — |
| GM959895 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2004-04-26 | — |
| GM332556 | Greater Manchester | Freehold | 1983-12-19 | — |
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