WILLIAM GIBBONS & SONS,LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-04 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-11-20
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
-4.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£6M
-17% vs 2024
Employees
281
-2.4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£3M
-23% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £40,710,383 | £39,647,336 | |
| Operating profit | £3,876,093 | £2,990,913 | |
| Profit before tax | £3,918,376 | £3,018,325 | |
| Net profit | £2,841,458 | £2,173,550 | |
| Cash | £2,231,966 | £2,133,523 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £9,257,445 | £7,941,930 | |
| Net assets | £7,209,533 | £5,983,083 | |
| Equity | £7,209,533 | £5,983,083 | |
| Average employees | 288 | 281 | |
| Wages | £8,278,923 | £9,712,266 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 9.5% | 7.5% | |
| Net margin | 7.0% | 5.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 41.9% | 37.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 59.8% | 64.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.93x | 1.73x | |
| Interest cover | — | 215.27x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Muras Baker Jones Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have considered the trading performance and expected activity in the next 12 months and therefore conclude that the company is a going concern.”
Significant events
- “On 20th December 2024 the company suffered a press fire at its premises. The directors expect all of the costs associated with the fire to be covered by the company's insurance policies and to have an additional machine installed and running within the following financial year.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 13 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GIBBONS, Donald Mark | Secretary | 2018-09-30 | — | — |
| GIBBONS, David Anthony | Director | 1997-10-29 | Mar 1968 | British |
| GIBBONS, Donald Mark | Director | — | Mar 1966 | British |
Show 13 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COWELL, Carolyne Margaret | Secretary | — | 1995-11-06 |
| SKOWRON, Marek Oswald | Secretary | 1995-11-06 | 2016-08-12 |
| WALKER, Garry John | Secretary | 2016-08-15 | 2018-09-30 |
| BROOME, John Brereton | Director | — | 2002-04-30 |
| BROWN, Francis William | Director | 1995-10-30 | 2004-04-09 |
| COLLEY, David Arthur | Director | 1992-07-20 | 1996-04-09 |
| DOBBS, Marcus Leonard | Director | 1996-12-16 | 1997-10-29 |
| EDGLEY, Mark Edward Kennedy | Director | — | 1992-09-30 |
| GEAR, Dennis | Director | — | 1997-10-29 |
| GIBBONS, John Anthony | Director | — | 2007-12-14 |
| GIBBONS, Suzette Mary Kendall | Director | — | 1993-05-20 |
| HUGHES, Colin Michael | Director | — | 1996-01-08 |
| SKOWRON, Marek Oswald | Director | 1993-11-01 | 2016-08-12 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Gibbons Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2019-05-28 | Active |
| William Gibbons Holdings Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-05-28 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 186 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-08 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-02-03 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-01-07 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-01-07 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-12-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-12-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-03-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-12-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-12-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-12-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2019-12-04 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2019-12-04 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
-2.6%
£40,710,383 £39,647,336
-
Cash
-4.4%
£2,231,966 £2,133,523
-
Net assets
-17%
£7,209,533 £5,983,083
-
Employees
-2.4%
288 281
-
Operating profit
-22.8%
£3,876,093 £2,990,913
-
Profit before tax
-23%
£3,918,376 £3,018,325
-
Wages
+17.3%
£8,278,923 £9,712,266
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