BRADFORD AND SONS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-22 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-08
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£738K
-23.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£49M
-1% vs 2023
Employees
857
-3.9% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£7M
+8.5% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £222,208,000 | £219,476,000 | |
| Operating profit | £7,032,000 | £7,500,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £6,112,000 | £6,629,000 | |
| Net profit | £4,501,000 | £4,934,000 | |
| Cash | £960,000 | £738,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £61,482,000 | £63,737,000 | |
| Net assets | £49,983,000 | £49,466,000 | |
| Equity | £49,983,000 | £49,466,000 | |
| Average employees | 892 | 857 | |
| Wages | £28,582,000 | £28,909,000 |
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.2% | 3.4% | |
| Net margin | 2.0% | 2.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 11.4% | 11.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 48.9% | 50.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.29x | 1.34x | |
| Interest cover | 7.45x | 8.49x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The board do not consider there to be any material uncertainty relating to the Group's ability to continue as a going concern and have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis. ... Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Group or Parent Company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- BRADFORD AND SONS LIMITED · parent
- Bradfords Building Supplies Limited 100%
- Yeovil Plumbing Supplies Limited 100%
- Bradfords Coal Limited 100%
- The Bradfords Group Limited 100%
- Bradfords Timber Supplies Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Closure of the Exeter branch during the year.”
- “in March 2024 the Group agreed to provide additional funding of £8.5m to meet the deficit between the scheme's assets and the premium required to enter into such an insurance policy (a "buy-in") with Just Retirement Limited.”
- “Following the closure of the Exeter branch during the year, in early 2025 the Group received, and accepted, an offer in respect of the sale of the associated freehold premises.”
- “Bradfords Roofing Services Limited and Totem Timber (St Austell) Holdings Limited were previous subsidiary undertakings of the Company and were dissolved on 13 August 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 27 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COLLEY, John Graham | Director | 2022-11-01 | Apr 1954 | British |
| GILLARD, David James | Director | 2022-05-01 | Oct 1962 | British |
| HARWOOD, Lee Brian | Director | 2020-02-25 | Dec 1975 | British |
| PLATT, Alan Graham | Director | 2017-08-17 | Aug 1974 | British |
| ROCHE, Paul Bernard | Director | 2024-09-01 | Sep 1964 | Irish |
| YOUNG, David Andrew Walsh | Director | 2017-06-07 | Feb 1974 | British |
Show 27 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVID, Michael John | Secretary | — | 2006-09-30 |
| HAUGHTON, Adrian Paul, Mr. | Secretary | 2008-10-28 | 2017-12-31 |
| ZMUDA, Richard Cyril | Secretary | 2006-10-01 | 2008-10-28 |
| ADAMS, George Miles Bramston | Director | 2018-10-01 | 2021-12-06 |
| BRADFORD, Martin Major, Mr. | Director | 2014-06-01 | 2017-08-17 |
| BRADFORD, Peter Stanley | Director | — | 2006-08-22 |
| BRADFORD, Stephen Paul Job | Director | — | 2007-04-30 |
| BRIANT, Anne Gillian | Director | 1999-05-01 | 2014-04-30 |
| BRIANT, Nicholas Adrian, Mr. | Director | 2014-05-01 | 2018-06-30 |
| CHURCH, Ian Stanton | Director | 2017-06-07 | 2019-03-19 |
| CLARKE, Dennis Walter | Director | — | 1994-04-30 |
| DAVID, Antony Martin | Director | 2008-11-01 | 2018-10-31 |
| EBURNE, Mark Andrew | Director | 2013-12-02 | 2019-03-19 |
| HAGEN, Martin John | Director | 2015-05-08 | 2016-02-08 |
| HALL, Nicholas Peter | Director | 2018-11-29 | 2022-03-07 |
| HAUGHTON, Adrian Paul, Mr. | Director | 2001-02-01 | 2017-12-31 |
| KING, Gordon | Director | — | 1998-12-31 |
| LAWRENCE, Rachel Marie | Director | 2018-07-01 | 2020-04-07 |
| MERRIAM, Andrew William Kennedy | Director | 2000-05-01 | 2015-02-26 |
| PERYER, James Richard | Director | 2000-01-01 | 2016-04-30 |
| SCOTT, Nicholas John Shaw | Director | 2017-10-26 | 2018-11-16 |
| SMITH, Dennis James | Director | 2000-01-01 | 2014-04-08 |
| STANNARD, Terry George | Director | 2003-04-01 | 2015-04-30 |
| WAIN, Anthony John | Director | 1994-05-01 | 2003-07-31 |
| WAY, Raymond Brinsley Mallen | Director | — | 2001-04-30 |
| WEBB, Ian John | Director | 2017-12-31 | 2018-07-09 |
| WEBB, Ian John | Director | 2017-11-30 | 2018-07-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 207 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-04-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-12-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-09-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-03-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-03-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-03-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-03-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-03-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-03-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-03-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-03-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-03-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-03-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-03-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-03-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-03-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-03-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-03-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 1
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-1.2%
£222,208,000 £219,476,000
-
Cash
-23.1%
£960,000 £738,000
-
Net assets
-1%
£49,983,000 £49,466,000
-
Employees
-3.9%
892 857
-
Operating profit
+6.7%
£7,032,000 £7,500,000
-
Profit before tax
+8.5%
£6,112,000 £6,629,000
-
Wages
+1.1%
£28,582,000 £28,909,000
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