TANNERS (SHREWSBURY) 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

WR Partners

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After reviewing budgets and forecasts the directors are confident that the Group can continue trading for at least the next 12 months and that therefore the going concern basis is appropriate.”

Group structure

1. TANNERS (SHREWSBURY) LIMITED · parent
   1. Tanners Wines Limited 100% · United Kingdom · wholesaling and retailing of wines, beers, spirits and minerals
   2. Terry Platts Wine Merchants Limited 100% · United Kingdom · dormant
   3. Mardol Wines Limited 100% · United Kingdom · dormant
   4. Pulling and Company Limited 100% · United Kingdom · dormant
   5. Tanners Cymru Limited 100% · United Kingdom · dormant

Significant events

• “The financial year to 31st May 2025 was another challenging period with continued pressure on consumer spend and a significant increase in bureaucracy and taxation.”
• “Tanners has continued to demonstrate resilience through the recent turbulent years. We have navigated through Covid and Brexit as well as other supply chain disruption (for example from the closure of the Suez Canal), as well as several short harvests in key wine growing areas, either from frost and hailstone or wildfires.”
• “We had to contend with a level of inflation not seen for a generation and shortages of glass and other raw materials used in the bottling processes due to the Russia / Ukraine conflict.”
• “We saw a 4.9% decline in revenue in the year to 31st May 2025 compared to the prior year, in part due to a weaker Bordeaux harvest which reduced en primeur sales, and also due to a decrease in consumer spend.”
• “In August 2023 the duty regime was changed with the underlying principal of taxing higher alcohol drinks more. Whilst we support this aim, the method of how this has been achieved has been to increase the rate of taxation across the majority of wines sold in the United Kingdom at a rate considerably in excess of inflation.”
• “Our sector has had another cost imposition placed on it by the UK Government following the introduction of the Extended Packaging Regulations ("EPR"). This is in effect a taxation of packaging.”
• “Our sector faces a further challenge from deposit schemes. As with the EPR, the principal of a deposit recycling scheme makes a lot of sense and works well in numerous other countries. The risk and uncertainty lies with implementation. Currently we face a situation of differing schemes between England, Wales and Scotland.”

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

Filings

3

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

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

  -4.9%

  £24,937,733 → £23,722,647

• Cash

  -9.4%

  £159,119 → £144,241

  lowest in 3 filed years

• Net assets

  -0.6%

  £7,389,752 → £7,341,985

• Employees

  0%

  113 → 113

• Operating profit

  -28.7%

  £882,960 → £629,235

• Profit before tax

  -28.7%

  £888,657 → £633,507

• Wages

  +0.2%

  £3,633,438 → £3,640,143

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers