E.H.BOOTH & CO.,LIMITED

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

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

MHA

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Therefore, the directors have an expectation that the group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements. Thus, they continue to consider it appropriate to adopt the going concern basis in preparing these financial statements.”

Group structure

1. E.H.BOOTH & CO.,LIMITED · parent
   1. Booths Riversway Limited 100% · England & Wales · Dormant
   2. Booths (Lytham) Limited 100% · England & Wales · Dormant
   3. E.H. Booth (SLP) General Partner Limited 100% · Scotland · Investment holding undertaking

Significant events

• “Despite improvements in results the Hale Barns store traded at a loss with no future prospect of recovery and therefore closed on the 7 of April 2024 with an agreed a transfer of the lease to ASDA for a .£1.75m receipt.”
• “Christmas records were broken once again with like for like sales up 9.3% (2023: up 8.7% for the three weeks to the 6 of January 2024) over the three-week trading period to the 4 of January 2025.”
• “In addition, we introduced a third "1847" café concept at our Knutsford store.”
• “The Ripon store will close in July (2025). The costs of occupancy have been considered to be too high relative to sales that never achieved original aspirations. The lease will pass to Tesco for a receipt of £785,000 and the sale will deliver significant savings to the company.”

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

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +1.4%

  £318,659,000 → £322,973,000

• Cash

  -12.2%

  £8,258,000 → £7,254,000

• Net assets

  -7.2%

  £27,483,000 → £25,491,000

• Employees

  -1%

  3,242 → 3,208

• Operating profit

  +26.6%

  £3,152,000 → £3,990,000

• Profit before tax

  +45.9%

  -£1,565,000 → -£846,000

• Wages

  +4.8%

  £52,975,000 → £55,517,000

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