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Registered number: NI067559
ContourGlobal Solutions (Northern Ireland) Limited
Directors' Report and
Financial Statements
For The Year Ended 31 December 2024
McCleary & Company Ltd.
Contents
Page
Company Information 1
Directors' Report 2
Independent Auditor's Report 3—4
Profit and Loss Account 5
Balance Sheet 6
Notes to the Financial Statements 7—9
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Company Information
Directors Mr Laurent Hullo
Mr Jorel Robert Reid
Mr Maarten Himpe
Company Number NI067559
Registered Office C/O A & L Goodbody Northern Ireland
6th Floor Lesley Tower
42-46 Fountain Street
Belfast
BT1 5EF
Accountants McCleary & Company Ltd.
Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors
Garvey Studios
14 Longstone Street
Lisburn
Co. Antrim
BT28 1TP
Auditors McCleary & Company Ltd
Garvey Studios
14 Longstone St.
Lisburn
Co. Antrim
BT28 1TP
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Directors' Report
The directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024.
Directors
The directors who held office during the year were as follows:
Mr Quinto Di Ferdinando Resigned 10/02/2025
Mr Laurent Hullo
Mr Jorel Robert Reid
Mr Maarten Himpe Appointed 10/02/2025
Post Balance Sheet Events
As disclosed in the accounting policies note at Note 2.1, the company's contract with its only customer expired on 30 April 2025. Under the terms of this agreement, the plant used to service this customer was transferred to them for nil consideration. The remaining unit will be sold or transferred to other group companies. The company does not intend to continue to trade going forward and therefore the Directors have concluded that the company shall cease trading on 30 April 2025. The going concern basis is not appropriate and the directors have therefore not prepared the financial statements on that basis.
Statement of Directors' Responsibilities
The directors are responsible for preparing the Directors' Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing the financial statements the directors are required to: 
  • select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
  • make judgments and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
  • prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business. As explained in Note 2.1 to the financial statements, the directors do not consider the going concern basis to be appropriate and these financial statements have therefore not been prepared on that basis.
The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the company's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
Statement of Disclosure of Information to Auditors
In the case of each director in office at the date the Directors' Report is approved: 
  • so far as the director is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the company's auditors are unaware; and
  • they have taken all the steps that they ought to have taken as directors in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditors are aware of that information.
Small Company Rules
This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to companies subject to the small companies regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.
On behalf of the board
Mr Jorel Robert Reid
Director
29 September 2025
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Independent Auditor's Report
Opinion
We have audited the financial statements of ContourGlobal Solutions (Northern Ireland) Limited for the year ended 31 December 2024 which comprise the Profit and Loss Account, Balance Sheet and the related notes, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice), including FRS 102 - Section 1A for Small Entities "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland".
In our opinion the financial statements:
  • give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 31 December 2024 and of its profit/(loss) for the year then ended;
  • have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice applicable to smaller entities; and
  • have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.
Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC's Ethical Standard, and the provisions available for small entities, in the circumstances set out in note 12 to the financial statements, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
Emphasis of Matter
Financial Statements Prepared on a Basis Other Than Going Concern
We draw your attention to Note 2.1 to the financial statements which explains that the company is ceasing trade and therefore the directors do not consider it to be appropriate to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements. Accordingly the financial statements have been prepared on a basis other than going concern as described in Note 2.1. Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter.
Opinions on Other Matters Prescribed by the Companies Act 2006
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
  • the information given in the Directors' Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
  • the Directors' Report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
Matters on Which We Are Required to Report by Exception
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Directors' Report.
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
  • adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
  • the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records or returns; or
  • certain disclosures of directors' remuneration specified by law are not made; or
  • we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit; or
  • the directors were not entitled to prepare the financial statements in accordance with the small companies regime and take advantage of the small companies' exemptions in preparing the Directors' Report and from the requirement to prepare a Strategic Report.
Responsibilities of Directors
As explained more fully in the Directors' Responsibilities Statement set out on page 2, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
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Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below: 
Having considered the nature of the business and the sector in which it operates, we identified that the principal risks of non-compliance with laws and regulations related to breaches of health and safety laws and environmental regulations.  We considered the extent to which non-compliance might have a material effect on the financial statements.  We also considered those laws and regulations that do not have a direct impact on the preparation of the financial statements but compliance with which may be fundamental to the Company's ability to operate such as the Companies Act 2006.  We evaluated management's incentives and opportunities for fraudulent manipulation of the financial statements (including the risk of override of controls). Audit procedures performed included:
- Assessment of compliance with key laws and regulations;
- Enquiry of those charged with governance and the company's solicitors including any known or suspected instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations, potential litigation and fraud;
- Identifying and testing journal entries for appropriateness, evaluating the rationale for significant transactions outside what is normal for the company and assessing whether the judgments made in making accounting estimates are indicative of potential bias, in order to assess the risk of fraud through management override of controls;
- Analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships that may indicate risks of material misstatement due to fraud;
- Challenging assumptions and judgments made by management in significant accounting estimates;
- Reviewing the disclosures in the financial statements against the specific legal requirements.
We communicated relevant identified laws and regulations and potential fraud risks to all engagement team members and remained alert to any indications of fraud or non-compliance with laws and regulations throughout the audit.
There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures outlined above.  We are less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations that are not closely related to events and transactions reflected in the financial statements.  Also, the risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve deliberate concealment.
A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor's report.
Use Of Our Report
This report is made solely to the company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company's members those matters that we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
John McCleary (Senior Statutory Auditor)
for and on behalf of McCleary & Company Ltd , Statutory Auditor
29 September 2025
McCleary & Company Ltd
Garvey Studios
14 Longstone St.
Lisburn
Co. Antrim
BT28 1TP
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Profit and Loss Account
2024 2023
Notes £ £
TURNOVER 8,610,123 10,068,981
Cost of sales (8,406,200 ) (9,093,840 )
GROSS PROFIT 203,923 975,141
Administrative expenses (2,089,008 ) (1,658,986 )
Other operating income 3,610 437,381
OPERATING LOSS (1,881,475 ) (246,464 )
Exceptional items - 8,520,593
Other interest receivable and similar income 33,921 30,874
Interest payable and similar charges (9 ) (230,499 )
(LOSS)/PROFIT FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR (1,847,563 ) 8,074,504
The notes on pages 7 to 9 form part of these financial statements.
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Balance Sheet
2024 2023
Notes £ £ £ £
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible Assets 5 - 747,735
- 747,735
CURRENT ASSETS
Stocks 6 250,001 884,524
Debtors 7 1,342,336 3,743,280
Cash at bank and in hand 1,426,099 757,824
3,018,436 5,385,628
Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year 8 (2,626,079 ) (3,893,443 )
NET CURRENT ASSETS (LIABILITIES) 392,357 1,492,185
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES 392,357 2,239,920
NET ASSETS 392,357 2,239,920
CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Called up share capital 9 1 1
Capital redemption reserve 7,909,392 7,909,392
Profit and Loss Account (7,517,036 ) (5,669,473 )
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS 392,357 2,239,920
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
On behalf of the board
Mr Jorel Robert Reid
Director
29 September 2025
The notes on pages 7 to 9 form part of these financial statements.
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Notes to the Financial Statements
1. General Information
ContourGlobal Solutions (Northern Ireland) Limited is a private company, limited by shares, incorporated in Northern Ireland, registered number NI067559 . The registered office is C/O A & L Goodbody Northern Ireland, 6th Floor Lesley Tower, 42-46 Fountain Street, Belfast, BT1 5EF.
2. Accounting Policies
2.1. Basis of Preparation of Financial Statements
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 section 1A Small Entities "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" and the Companies Act 2006.
The financial statements have not been prepared on a going concern basis. On 30 April 2025, the company's contract with its only customer expired. Under the terms of this agreement, the plant used to service this customer was transferred to them for nil consideration. The remaining unit will be sold or transferred to other group companies. The company does not intend to continue to trade going forward and therefore the Directors have concluded that the company shall cease trading, and that the going concern basis of accounting is no longer appropriate.
The financial statements have therefore been prepared on a 'break-up' basis. This basis includes adjustments to reflect the recoverability and classification of asset and liability balances. Assets have been stated at their expected recoverable amounts, and provisions have been made for all expected liabilities and costs arising from the cessation of trading and the subsequent liquidation expected to occur no earlier than 2026.
2.2. Turnover
Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, net of discounts and value added taxes. Turnover includes revenue earned from the sale of goods and from the rendering of services. Turnover is reduced for estimated customer returns, rebates and other similar allowances.
Sale of goods
Turnover from the sale of goods is recognised when the significant risks and rewards of ownership of the goods has transferred to the buyer. This is usually at the point that the customer has signed for the delivery of the goods.
2.3. Intangible Fixed Assets and Amortisation - Other Intangible
Other intangible assets are initially measured at cost. They are amortised to profit and loss account over their estimated economic life of 5 years.
2.4. Tangible Fixed Assets and Depreciation
Tangible fixed assets are measured at cost less accumulated depreciation and any accumulated impairment losses. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost of the fixed assets, less their estimated residual value, over their expected useful lives on the following bases:
Plant & Machinery at varying rates on cost
Computer Equipment at varying rates on cost
2.5. Stocks and Work in Progress
Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value after making due allowance for obsolete and slow-moving stocks. Cost includes all direct costs and an appropriate proportion of fixed and variable overheads.
3. Average Number of Employees
Average number of employees during the year was: 3 (2023: 6)
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4. Intangible Assets
Other
£
Cost
As at 1 January 2024 974
As at 31 December 2024 974
Amortisation
As at 1 January 2024 974
As at 31 December 2024 974
Net Book Value
As at 31 December 2024 -
As at 1 January 2024 -
5. Tangible Assets
Plant & Machinery Computer Equipment Total
£ £ £
Cost
As at 1 January 2024 24,173,329 20,835 24,194,164
As at 31 December 2024 24,173,329 20,835 24,194,164
Depreciation
As at 1 January 2024 23,428,393 18,036 23,446,429
Provided during the period 438,631 2,131 440,762
Impairment losses 306,305 668 306,973
As at 31 December 2024 24,173,329 20,835 24,194,164
Net Book Value
As at 31 December 2024 - - -
As at 1 January 2024 744,936 2,799 747,735
6. Stocks
2024 2023
£ £
Stock 250,001 884,524
7. Debtors
2024 2023
£ £
Due within one year
Trade debtors 29,339 1,700,875
Other debtors 1,312,997 2,042,405
1,342,336 3,743,280
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8. Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year
2024 2023
£ £
Trade creditors 931,962 1,842,894
Amounts owed to group undertakings 1,123,281 1,591,040
Other creditors 546,945 459,509
Taxation and social security 23,891 -
2,626,079 3,893,443
9. Share Capital
2024 2023
£ £
Allotted, Called up and fully paid 1 1
10. Post Balance Sheet Events
On 30 April 2025, the company's contract with its only customer expired. Under the terms of this agreement, the plant used to service this customer was transferred to them for nil consideration. The remaining unit will be sold or transferred to other group companies. The company does not intend to continue to trade going forward and therefore the Directors have concluded that the company shall cease trading.
11. Related Party Transactions
At the year end ContourGlobal Solutions (Northern Ireland) Limited owed other group companies a total of £1,123,281 (2023 £1,591,040).
12. FRC's Ethical Standard - Provision Available for Small Entities
In common with other businesses of our size and nature we use our auditors to assist with the preparation of the financial statements.
13. Ultimate Parent Undertaking and Controlling Party
The company's immediate parent undertaking is ContourGlobal Solutions Holdings S.a.r.l. . The ultimate controlling party is KKR & Co Inc , a company incorporated in the USA, who controls 100% of the shares of ContourGlobal Solutions (Northern Ireland) Limited .  In so far as the Directors are aware, the smallest and largest groups of the undertakings in which the Company's results are consolidated are headed by KKR & Co Inc.
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