BROTHER U.K. LIMITED

1. BROTHER U.K. LIMITED 1995-12-29 → present
2. JONES' SEWING MACHINE COMPANY,LIMITED 1889-07-05 → 1995-12-29

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

IFRS

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Deloitte LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making enquiries, the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. BROTHER U.K. LIMITED · parent
   1. Brother Limited Liability Company 0.016% · Moscow

Significant events

• “An annuity policy buy-in contract was signed on 21 March 2025.”
• “On 25 July 2024, in the case Virgin Media v NTL Pension Trustees II Limited (and others), the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court's 2023 decision which confirmed that certain rules of a contracted-out defined benefit scheme cannot be altered without the statutory actuarial confirmation having been obtained and that non-compliant alterations are void. The scheme sponsoring employers will continue to monitor further relevant court cases due to be heard in 2025, as well as updates from the Government as to whether it will issue new regulations in response to this issue.”
• “Subsequent to the financial year end, the Directors recommend the payment of a dividend of £1.690m.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

4

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  -7.5%

  £44,587,000 → £41,259,000

• Cash

  +42.9%

  £21,000 → £30,000

• Net assets

  -18.4%

  £28,608,000 → £23,347,000

• Employees

  -11.2%

  143 → 127

• Operating profit

  -43.1%

  £2,850,000 → £1,623,000

• Profit before tax

  -28.4%

  £3,705,000 → £2,651,000

• Wages

  -5.8%

  £6,497,000 → £6,118,000

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers