FORTERRA BUILDING PRODUCTS LIMITED
ActiveKey figures
† FORTERRA BUILDING PRODUCTS LIMITED filed these accounts on paper, so Companies House publishes them only as a scanned image. The figures for the years marked † were read automatically from the scan and kept only where the statements add up (for example net assets equal total equity), but a reading error is still possible — check the original accounts at Companies House.
Ratios
2025Sector comparison
SIC 23320Where the company stands among the 238 active companies whose first SIC code is 23320 (Manufacture of bricks, tiles and construction products, in baked clay).
- IBSTOCK BRICK LIMITED£524.9m
- IBSTOCK PLC£382.5m
- WIENERBERGER LIMITED£300.6m
- FORTERRA BUILDING PRODUCTS LIMITED£241.8m
- MICHELMERSH BRICK HOLDINGS PLC£94.7m
- MICHELMERSH BRICK UK LIMITED£32.4m
- IBSTOCK MANUFACTURING SERVICES LIMITED£27.9m
- CANOVA CLAY LIMITED£27m
- HP&D HOLDCO LIMITED£11.5m
- RAEBURN BRICK LIMITED£9.8m
Positions are approximate. Figures come from each company's latest accounts; money and employee figures are compared only with companies that filed accounts in pounds for a period ending in the last two and a half years and are not dormant, so those groups are smaller than 238. The line on each bar marks the median.
Summary: FORTERRA BUILDING PRODUCTS LIMITED
What kind of company is it?
FORTERRA BUILDING PRODUCTS LIMITED is a private limited company registered with Companies House under company number 08960430. It was incorporated on 26 Mar 2014. Its status is active. The registered office is in Northampton (NN4). Its nature of business (SIC 2007) is manufacture of bricks, tiles and construction products, in baked clay (23320).
How is the company doing financially?
The latest accounts in the database are for 2025 (period ending 31 Dec 2025); the company files full accounts. Turnover was £386,000,000. Profit for the year was £16,800,000. Net assets were £241,800,000, up 5.2% on the previous year. Cash at bank and in hand was £6,100,000. Total assets were £423,300,000 and total liabilities £181,500,000. The company had an average of 1,459 employees. Figures are available for 2 financial years (2024–2025).
How does it compare with similar companies?
Compared with 238 active companies whose first SIC code is 23320: By net assets it ranks higher than 97% of them (median £15,845). By total assets it ranks higher than 97% of them (median £87,211). By cash it ranks higher than 95% of them (median £65,786). By number of employees it ranks higher than 99% of them (median 2). It is older than 75% of them (median age 3.6 years).
Does it supply the public sector?
The company is named as a supplier in 2 public contract award notices from 2 public sector buyers since 2016. Contracts awarded to it alone have a combined published value of £163.1k. It is recorded as the recipient of 12 central government grants worth £949.1k, including from Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
What do public registers and reports show?
HMRC lists it as an importer of goods, mainly machinery, iron and steel, iron and steel articles. HMRC lists it as an exporter of goods, mainly ceramics, iron and steel articles, stone, plaster and cement articles. In its latest payment practices report it took an average of 62 days to pay suppliers, and 0% of invoices were not paid within agreed terms. Its gender pay gap report for 2025/26 shows median hourly pay for women 21.2% lower than for men. It has a modern slavery statement on the government registry.
Who runs and controls the company?
One person with significant control is registered.
When are its next filings due?
The next accounts are due by 30 Sep 2027. The next confirmation statement is due by 14 Mar 2027.
Filed accounts2024–2025
| 2024 † | 2025 † | |
|---|---|---|
| Turnover | 344,300,000 | 386,000,000 |
| Profit for the year | 20,200,000 | 16,800,000 |
| Cash at bank and in hand | 15,200,000 | 6,100,000 |
| Total assets | 447,000,000 | 423,300,000 |
| Total liabilities | 217,100,000 | 181,500,000 |
| Net assets / total equity | 229,900,000 | 241,800,000 |
| Average number of employees | 1,472 | 1,459 |
A dash (—) means no accounts were filed for that year or the item is not in the accounts; 0 is a zero stated in the accounts. Small companies usually file only a balance sheet, so the profit and loss account is often missing.
Public contracts
2 contractsFORTERRA BUILDING PRODUCTS LIMITED is named as a supplier in 2 public contract award notices from 2 public sector buyers since 2016. Their combined published value is £163.1k.
- UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED
- 1 contract · £86.7k
- Derbyshire County Council
- 1 contract · £76.4k
- CETE051 Provision of Culvert‡Derbyshire County Council · £76,421
- UK SBS RE150089 Concrete Radiation Shielding Blocks‡UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £86,678
From contract award notices on Contracts Finder (since 2016) and Find a Tender (since 2021), published by the Cabinet Office under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Values are as published by the buyer and usually cover the whole contract term; the total leaves out awards shared between several suppliers, where the published figure is a ceiling for all of them, placeholder values and single figures of £1 billion or more. Notices marked ‡ do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name. Contracts below the publication thresholds and those of devolved buyers that publish elsewhere are not included.
Government grants
12 grantsFORTERRA BUILDING PRODUCTS LIMITED is recorded as the recipient of 12 central government grants since 2015, together worth £949.1k.
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- 1 grant · £264.2k
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- 3 grants · £223k
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
- 4 grants · £209.5k
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- 1 grant · £178.5k
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- 2 grants · £71k
- ALB - Rural Payments Agency - Farming Recovery Fund 2024-25Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £2,895
- Intelligent Robotic Inspection for Foundation Industry Optimisation demonstration - IRIFIO:D2Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £18,828 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme 22/23
- Developing industrial symbiosis using UK waste clay resources for new generation building materialsDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £52,474 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme 22/23
- Decarbonising Precast ConcreteDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · −£3,310 · UKRI - Innovate UK - Scheme 22/23
- Intelligent Robotic Inspection for Foundation Industry Optimisation demonstration - IRIFIO:D2Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £49,086 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme
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- Developing industrial symbiosis using UK waste clay resources for new generation building materialsDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology · £21,934 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme
- Decarbonising Precast ConcreteDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £138,247 · ALB - UKRI - Innovate UK grant awards in 20-21
- ALB-Historic England-Emergency Investigation Assistance: Must Farm Timber Platform, Whittlesey, CambridgeshireDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £32,000 · ALB - Historic England - Heritage Protection Commissions-fy 20/21
- ALB-Historic England-Emergency Investigation Assistance: Must Farm Timber Platform, Whittlesey, CambridgeshireDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £160,000 · ALB - Historic England - Heritage Protection Commissions-fy 19/20
- ALB-Historic England-Emergency Investigation Assistance: Must Farm Timber Platform, Whittlesey, CambridgeshireDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £178,468 · ALB-Historic England - Heritage Protection Commissions-fy 18/19
- ALB-Historic England-Emergency Investigation Assistance: Must Farm Timber Platform, Whittlesey, CambridgeshireDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £31,038 · ALB - Historic England - Heritage Protection Commissions-fy 21/22
- ALB-Historic England-Emergency Investigation Assistance: Must Farm Timber Platform, Whittlesey, CambridgeshireDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport · £264,160 · ALB-Historic England - Heritage Protection Commissions-fy 17/18
From the Government Grants Register published by the Cabinet Office (financial years 2016/17 onwards, Open Government Licence v3.0). It covers grants from central government departments and their agencies where the register states the recipient's company number and the recipient name matches this company; grants from local authorities, lottery distributors and devolved governments are not included.
Statutory reporting
- Average time taken to pay invoices
- 62 days
- Invoices not paid within agreed terms
- 0%
- Member of a payment code
- No
- Within 30 days 13%
- 31 to 60 days 29%
- After 60 days 58%
Earlier periods (7)
- Period ending
- Days to pay
- Within 30 days
- Late
- 31 Dec 2025
- 63
- 10%
- 76%
- 30 Jun 2025
- 63
- 8%
- 75%
- 31 Dec 2024
- 62
- 10%
- 77%
- 30 Jun 2024
- 62
- 10%
- 92%
- 31 Dec 2023
- 59
- 17%
- 18%
- 30 Jun 2023
- 60
- 18%
- 30%
- 31 Dec 2022
- 58
- 19%
- 38%
- Median hourly pay
- women 21.2% lower
- Mean hourly pay
- women 9.1% lower
- Median bonus pay
- women 64% lower
- Employer size
- 1000 to 4999 employees
Earlier years (8)
- Year
- Median hourly pay
- Mean hourly pay
- 2024/25
- women 21.2% lower
- women 9.1% lower
- 2023/24
- women 25.4% lower
- women 16.7% lower
- 2022/23
- women 25.1% lower
- women 15.1% lower
- 2021/22
- women 21.6% lower
- women 11.4% lower
- 2020/21
- women 7.6% lower
- women 7.8% lower
- 2019/20
- women 19.7% lower
- women 17.7% lower
- 2018/19
- women 23% lower
- women 18% lower
- 2017/18
- women 21.9% lower
- women 19.3% lower
A positive gap means women's average hourly pay is lower than men's across the whole employer; it is not a comparison of pay for the same work. View on the Gender pay gap service
- 2020
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement (FORTERRA PLC)
Figures the company reported itself to the government's Check payment practices service, Gender pay gap service and Modern slavery statement registry (Open Government Licence v3.0). Only large companies and employers with 250 or more staff have to report, so most companies have nothing here.
Registers and licences
Listed by HMRC as an importer of goods in 12 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: machinery, iron and steel, iron and steel articles, aluminium and electrical equipment.
Listed by HMRC as an exporter of goods in 12 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: ceramics, iron and steel articles, stone, plaster and cement articles and electrical equipment.
From HMRC's monthly lists of importers and exporters. Traders can ask to be left off the lists, so absence does not mean a company does not trade.
Sources: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Care Quality Commission, Home Office and HM Revenue & Customs, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Entries marked ‡ come from lists that do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name.
History
7 events- Financial year 2025 endedAccounts: turnover £386m, net assets £241.8m, 1,459 employees
- Financial year 2024 endedAccounts: turnover £344.3m, net assets £229.9m, 1,472 employees
- Forterra Holdings Limited registered as a person with significant control
- Name changed to FORTERRA BUILDING PRODUCTS LIMITEDPreviously HBP BUILDING PRODUCTS LIMITED
- Name changed to HBP BUILDING PRODUCTS LIMITEDPreviously HANSON BUILDING PRODUCTS LIMITED
- Name changed to HANSON BUILDING PRODUCTS LIMITEDPreviously PIMCO 2945 LIMITED
- Company incorporatedPrivate limited company
Dates as recorded at Companies House: incorporation, name changes, officer appointments and resignations, current persons with significant control, and the end of each financial year with figures in the database. Former persons with significant control are not listed.