Chilfen Export Packaging Limited
Registered name: CHILFEN EXPORT PACKAGING LIMITED
Part of Wiltonsign Properties Limited groupChilfen Export Packaging Limited made £319k profit in the year to 29 Feb 2024 (revenue not disclosed).
Chilfen Export Packaging Limited reported £319k profit in the year to 29 Feb 2024, down 49% on the year before; its revenue was not disclosed. It had 0 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of wooden containers” and is based in Letchworth Garden City; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Letchworth Garden City, East of England
- Age
- 16 yrs · since 2010
- 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
This company published its profit but not its turnover, so revenue and margins are not disclosed. We never estimate them.
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 28 Feb 2022 | 28 Feb 2023 | 29 Feb 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Profit only | Profit only |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — |
| Profit after tax | — | £623k | £319k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £623k | £319k |
| Employees (average) | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼48.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼100% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £33.1k | £9.8k | £1.8k |
| Net assets | £347k | £396k | £170k |
| Fixed assets | £319k | £312k | £312k |
| Current assets | £107k | £550k | £307k |
| Debtors | £74.1k | £378 | £0 |
| Deferred income | — | £3k | £600 |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
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
- ▼57%
- Now £170k
- Cash at bank
- ▼82%
- Now £1.8k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- ▼80%
- Now £600
- Fixed assets
- 0%
- Now £312k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Wiltonsign Properties Limitedultimate parent50–75%
- Chilfen Export Packaging Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (3)
- Chilfen Contracting LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Chilfen Joinery LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Trafalgar Cases LimitedRev. — · Profit £848k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 29 Feb 2024 (profit £319k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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