| REGISTERED NUMBER: |
| Unaudited Financial Statements |
| for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 |
| for |
| The Soft Drinks Company Limited |
| REGISTERED NUMBER: |
| Unaudited Financial Statements |
| for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 |
| for |
| The Soft Drinks Company Limited |
| The Soft Drinks Company Limited (Registered number: 03184630) |
| Contents of the Financial Statements |
| for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 |
| Page |
| Company Information | 1 |
| Balance Sheet | 2 |
| Notes to the Financial Statements | 4 |
| Chartered Accountants' Report | 8 |
| The Soft Drinks Company Limited |
| Company Information |
| for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 |
| DIRECTORS: |
| REGISTERED OFFICE: |
| REGISTERED NUMBER: |
| ACCOUNTANTS: |
| Hanover Court |
| 5 Queen Street |
| Lichfield |
| Staffordshire |
| WS13 6QD |
| The Soft Drinks Company Limited (Registered number: 03184630) |
| Balance Sheet |
| 31 March 2025 |
| 2025 | 2024 |
| Notes | £ | £ |
| FIXED ASSETS |
| Tangible assets | 5 |
| CURRENT ASSETS |
| Stocks |
| Debtors | 6 |
| Cash at bank and in hand |
| CREDITORS |
| Amounts falling due within one year | 7 | ( |
) | ( |
) |
| NET CURRENT ASSETS |
| TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES |
| CREDITORS |
| Amounts falling due after more than one year |
8 |
( |
) |
( |
) |
| PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES | ( |
) |
| NET ASSETS |
| CAPITAL AND RESERVES |
| Called up share capital |
| Retained earnings |
| The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for: |
| (a) | ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and |
| (b) | preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of each financial year and of its profit or loss for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company. |
| The Soft Drinks Company Limited (Registered number: 03184630) |
| Balance Sheet - continued |
| 31 March 2025 |
| The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on |
| The Soft Drinks Company Limited (Registered number: 03184630) |
| Notes to the Financial Statements |
| for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 |
| 1. | STATUTORY INFORMATION |
| The Soft Drinks Company Limited is a |
| 2. | STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE |
| 3. | ACCOUNTING POLICIES |
| Basis of preparing the financial statements |
| Turnover |
| Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, value added tax and other sales taxes. |
| Tangible fixed assets |
| Land and buildings | - |
| Plant and machinery etc | - |
| Stocks |
| Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value, after making due allowance for obsolete and slow moving items. |
| Taxation |
| Taxation for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the Income Statement, except to the extent that it relates to items recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity. |
| Current or deferred taxation assets and liabilities are not discounted. |
| Current tax is recognised at the amount of tax payable using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the balance sheet date. |
| Deferred tax |
| Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed at the balance sheet date. |
| Timing differences arise from the inclusion of income and expenses in tax assessments in periods different from those in which they are recognised in financial statements. Deferred tax is measured using tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the year end and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference. |
| Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised only to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits. |
| The Soft Drinks Company Limited (Registered number: 03184630) |
| Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
| for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 |
| 3. | ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued |
| Hire purchase and leasing commitments |
| Assets obtained under hire purchase contracts or finance leases are capitalised in the balance sheet. Those held under hire purchase contracts are depreciated over their estimated useful lives. Those held under finance leases are depreciated over their estimated useful lives or the lease term, whichever is the shorter. |
| The interest element of these obligations is charged to profit or loss over the relevant period. The capital element of the future payments is treated as a liability. |
| Rentals paid under operating leases are charged to profit or loss on a straight line basis over the period of the lease. |
| Pension costs and other post-retirement benefits |
| The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the company's pension scheme are charged to profit or loss in the period to which they relate. |
| 4. | EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS |
| The average number of employees during the year was |
| 5. | TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS |
| Plant and |
| Land and | machinery |
| buildings | etc | Totals |
| £ | £ | £ |
| COST |
| At 1 April 2024 |
| Additions |
| At 31 March 2025 |
| DEPRECIATION |
| At 1 April 2024 |
| Charge for year |
| At 31 March 2025 |
| NET BOOK VALUE |
| At 31 March 2025 |
| At 31 March 2024 |
| The Soft Drinks Company Limited (Registered number: 03184630) |
| Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
| for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 |
| 5. | TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS - continued |
| Fixed assets, included in the above, which are held under hire purchase contracts are as follows: |
| Plant and |
| machinery |
| etc |
| £ |
| COST |
| At 1 April 2024 |
| and 31 March 2025 |
| DEPRECIATION |
| At 1 April 2024 |
| Charge for year |
| At 31 March 2025 |
| NET BOOK VALUE |
| At 31 March 2025 |
| At 31 March 2024 |
| 6. | DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR |
| 2025 | 2024 |
| £ | £ |
| Trade debtors |
| Amounts owed by group undertakings |
| Amounts owed by associates |
| Other debtors |
| 7. | CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR |
| 2025 | 2024 |
| £ | £ |
| Hire purchase contracts (see note 9) |
| Trade creditors |
| Amounts owed to group undertakings |
| Taxation and social security |
| Other creditors |
| 8. | CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN ONE YEAR |
| 2025 | 2024 |
| £ | £ |
| Hire purchase contracts (see note 9) |
| The Soft Drinks Company Limited (Registered number: 03184630) |
| Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
| for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 |
| 9. | LEASING AGREEMENTS |
| Minimum lease payments under hire purchase fall due as follows: |
| 2025 | 2024 |
| £ | £ |
| Net obligations repayable: |
| Within one year |
| Between one and five years |
| 10. | RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES |
| At the year end, the company was owed £786,304 (2024: £526,096) from its parent company, SDC Holdings Limited. |
| At the year end, the company owed £55,000 to RDCP Investments 25 Limited which is the 100% shareholder of SDC Holdings Limited. |
| At the year end, the company owed £230,876 (2024: £257,500) to SOS Wholesale Limited, a company of which the directors Mr S Rizvi and Ms V J Patara are also directors. |
| At the year end, the company owed £18,500 (2024:£18,500) to RDCP Care Limited, a company of which the director Mr S Rizvi is also a director. |
| At the year end, the company was owed £146,222 by RDCP Limited, a company of which the director Mr S Rizvi is also a director. |
| 11. | ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARTY |
| The controlling party is SDC Holdings (Sheffield) Limited. |
| The ultimate controlling party is |
| Chartered Accountants' Report to the Board of Directors |
| on the Unaudited Financial Statements of |
| The Soft Drinks Company Limited |
| The following reproduces the text of the report prepared for the directors in respect of the company's annual unaudited financial statements. In accordance with the Companies Act 2006, the company is only required to file a Balance Sheet. Readers are cautioned that the Income Statement and certain other primary statements and the Report of the Directors are not required to be filed with the Registrar of Companies. |
| In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the financial statements of The Soft Drinks Company Limited for the year ended 31 March 2025 which comprise the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Changes in Equity and the related notes from the company's accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us. |
| As a practising member firm of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed within the ICAEW's regulations and guidance at http://www.icaew.com/en/membership/regulations-standards-and-guidance. |
| This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of The Soft Drinks Company Limited, as a body, in accordance with our terms of engagement. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the financial statements of The Soft Drinks Company Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of The Soft Drinks Company Limited, as a body, in this report in accordance with ICAEW Technical Release 07/16AAF. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than The Soft Drinks Company Limited and its Board of Directors, as a body, for our work or for this report. |
| It is your duty to ensure that The Soft Drinks Company Limited has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory financial statements that give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of The Soft Drinks Company Limited. You consider that The Soft Drinks Company Limited is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the year. |
| We have not been instructed to carry out an audit or a review of the financial statements of The Soft Drinks Company Limited. For this reason, we have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the statutory financial statements. |
| Hanover Court |
| 5 Queen Street |
| Lichfield |
| Staffordshire |
| WS13 6QD |