Barrhead International Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in Scotland . The registered office is 319, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G2 5RZ.
The financial statements are prepared in sterling , which is the functional currency of the company. Monetary a mounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.
The company has taken advantage of the exemption under section 399 of the Companies Act 2006 not to prepare consolidated accounts , on the basis that the group of which this is the parent qualifies as a small group . The financial statements present information about the company as an individual entity and not about its group .
Basic financial assets, which include debtors and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.
Financial liabilities and equity instruments are classified according to the substance of the contractual arrangements entered into. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the company after deducting all of its liabilities.
Basic financial liabilities, including creditors , bank loans, loans from fellow group companies and preference shares that are classified as debt, are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future paymen ts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.
Debt instruments are subsequently carried at amortised cost, using the effective interest rate method.
Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. A m ounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.
Equity instruments issued by the company are recorded at the proceeds received, net of transaction costs. Dividends payable on equity instruments are recognised as liabilities once they are no longer at the discretion of the company.
In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the directors are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.
The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.
The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the year was:
As the income statement has been omitted from the filing copy of the financial statements , the following information in relation to the audit report on the statutory financial statements is provided in accordance with s444(5B) of the Companies Act 2006 :
The auditor's report was unqualified.
The company is party to a multi-lateral guarantee over all monies owed by the company and its fellow group undertakings to HSBC, secured by way of fixed and floating charges over the assets and undertakings of the company. As at 31 December 2021, the group owed £nil (2020: £nil) to HSBC.
The immediate parent company is Utopia Group Limited, a company registered in England and Wales.
On 31 December 2021 , ownership of Utopia Group Limited, the immediate parent company, was transferred to Utopia Capital Investments Group Limited , which is now considered to be the ultimate parent undertaking.
Barrhead International Limited owns 42% of the ordinary voting shares, 80% of the ordinary non-voting shares and 100% of the preference shares of Barrhead Sanitary Ware Limited (with the remaining 58% of the ordinary voting shares being owned by Barrhead International Limited's parent company Utopia Group Limited).
During the year preference dividends of £24,375 (2020: £24,375) were issued by Barrhead Sanitary Ware Limited to Barrhead International Limited, of which a provision for debts unrecoverable of £24,375 (2020: £24,375) was made by Barrhead International Limited.