CHARLES WELLS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-20 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-06
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£8M
-7.7% vs 2023
Net assets
£73M
-4.7% vs 2023
Employees
874
+2.2% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£1M
-7.3% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-09-29
| Metric | Trend | 2023-09-29 | 2024-09-29 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £62,305,000 | £65,816,000 | |
| Operating profit | £3,021,000 | £3,451,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,313,000 | £1,217,000 | |
| Net profit | £985,000 | £371,000 | |
| Cash | £8,127,000 | £7,505,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £137,258,000 | £134,944,000 | |
| Net assets | £76,127,000 | £72,515,000 | |
| Equity | £76,127,000 | £72,515,000 | |
| Average employees | 855 | 874 | |
| Wages | £16,397,000 | £17,298,000 |
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 | 2023-09-29 | 2024-09-29 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 4.8% | 5.2% | |
| Net margin | 1.6% | 0.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 2.2% | 2.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 51.0% | 52.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.69x | 1.56x | |
| Interest cover | 0.99x | 1.11x |
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
- Forvis Mazars LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Board is confident that the Group has sufficient liquidity and the ability to access resources when the Group needs to and is able to meet its creditors as they fall due for a period of not less than 12 months from the approval of these financial statements.”
Group structure
- CHARLES WELLS LIMITED · parent
- Charles Wells Brewery Limited 1%
- Charles Wells France S.A.R.L 1%
- Apostrophe Pubs Limited 1%
- Charles Wells Pension Trustees Limited 1%
- Matross Limited 1%
- Havelock Wines Limited 1%
- The Old Falcon Hotel (St. Neots) Limited 1%
- Stevenson (Beer & Wines) Limited 1%
- Bedford Brewing Company Limited 1%
- Wells & Co (Bedford) Limited 1%
- Charles Wells Brands Management Limited 1%
- Centrum Management Limited 1%
- Young & Co's Subsidiary Company Limited 1%
- POCH SARL 1%
- Celtic Knights SASU 1%
Significant events
- “Sales have continued to grow across the different business divisions however high utility costs, high mortgage rates and political uncertainty in the build up to the UK election has continued to suppress consumer confidence and, as a result, made growth for the sector as a whole more challenging.”
- “In the year to 29 September 2024, sales income from continuing operations increased by £3.5m to £65.8m as we see improvement in the performance of our UK pubs and growth in France from both the underlying estate and also from the 3 new sites that we have added during 2024.”
- “We have purchased three new pubs in France during the current year, two in Bordeaux and one in Strasbourg.”
- “We have also sold 1 pub and some separate land, which have raised sales proceeds of £1.3m which has been reinvested through French acquisitions and UK developments during the year.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 30 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEKKER, Danielle | Director | 2024-03-19 | Jun 1976 | British |
| BROAD, Mark Alexander | Director | 2024-12-19 | Sep 1981 | British |
| FRYER, Anthony Robert | Director | 2013-07-01 | Sep 1973 | British |
| SMITH, Benjamin James | Director | 2025-10-01 | Oct 1984 | British |
| WEBSTER, Jonathan Paul | Director | 2023-01-03 | Dec 1961 | British |
| WELLS, Geoffrey Charles Vaughan | Director | 2017-11-21 | Oct 1970 | Canadian |
| WELLS, Paul Richard | Director | — | Aug 1958 | British |
| WELLS, Peter John | Director | 2004-06-01 | Jun 1970 | British |
Show 30 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASHWORTH, Roger | Secretary | 1996-10-01 | 2008-02-04 |
| PHILLIMORE, William Andrew Justin | Secretary | 2008-02-04 | 2011-12-14 |
| WELLS, Thomas Franey | Secretary | — | 1996-10-01 |
| ASHWORTH, Roger | Director | 1994-09-05 | 2008-02-04 |
| CLARKE, Laurence William | Director | — | 1999-01-12 |
| COTTRELL, Michael Noel Francis | Director | 1995-07-14 | 1996-10-29 |
| COUCHMAN, Shirley | Director | 2020-07-01 | 2024-09-30 |
| DOBSON, Noel | Director | — | 1993-12-31 |
| HARRISON, Jonathan James Hewetson | Director | — | 1993-01-31 |
| HOLTON, Andrea Therese | Director | 2013-09-18 | 2016-03-31 |
| IVELL, Robert Lewis | Director | 2015-01-24 | 2023-01-31 |
| JACKSON, Alan Marchant | Director | 2002-09-24 | 2012-01-31 |
| KNOX, Robert Dermot | Director | 1995-01-24 | 2002-01-30 |
| MAIR, Anthony Christopher | Director | 2007-03-28 | 2017-06-22 |
| MAYES, Colin Michael | Director | 2002-11-19 | 2007-03-28 |
| MC NICOLL, Ian David Gordon | Director | — | 1994-08-31 |
| MCNALLY, Nigel Duncan | Director | 1996-11-01 | 2012-08-15 |
| MONK, David Alec George | Director | — | 2003-01-29 |
| MOREWOOD, Roy | Director | — | 1999-06-30 |
| PARMAR, Balvinder Kaur | Director | 2021-01-20 | 2024-03-31 |
| PHILLIMORE, William Andrew Justin | Director | 2006-09-04 | 2019-12-31 |
| RAWLINSON, Paul Stephen | Director | 2012-01-03 | 2021-01-20 |
| ROBERTSON, James Ian Clark | Director | 1999-07-05 | 2012-04-11 |
| VAN RIEMSDIJK, Wessel Willem | Director | 1999-09-28 | 2002-09-24 |
| WALLIS, Anthony James Walker | Director | 1998-01-28 | 2014-12-17 |
| WELLS, Anthony Richard, Dr | Director | 2001-11-01 | 2017-07-26 |
| WELLS, Christopher Charles | Director | — | 2001-09-25 |
| WELLS, John Hayward | Director | — | 2004-01-31 |
| WELLS, Oliver John | Director | — | 2000-01-31 |
| WELLS, Thomas Franey | Director | — | 2013-04-23 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 261 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-03-23 MA Memorandum articles
- 2026-03-23 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-06-25 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-06-20 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-23 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2026-03-23 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-10-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-10-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-25 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-06-20 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-06-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-04-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with made up date | |
| 2024-12-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-04-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-04-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-03-29 | MISC | miscellaneous | Miscellaneous | |
| 2023-03-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-02-14 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-02-14 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-01-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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 2024-09-29 vs 2023-09-29
-
Turnover
+5.6%
£62,305,000 £65,816,000
-
Cash
-7.7%
£8,127,000 £7,505,000
-
Net assets
-4.7%
£76,127,000 £72,515,000
-
Employees
+2.2%
855 874
-
Operating profit
+14.2%
£3,021,000 £3,451,000
-
Profit before tax
-7.3%
£1,313,000 £1,217,000
-
Wages
+5.5%
£16,397,000 £17,298,000
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