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J.D. WILLIAMS & COMPANY LIMITED
Profile
- Company number
- 00178367
- Status
- Active
- Incorporation
- 1921-12-13
- Last accounts made up
- 2024-03-02
- Account category
- FULL
- Primary SIC
- 47910
- Hubs
- UK Consumer / DTC
Accounts
Pending extraction
No iXBRL extracted yet for this company.
Audit & accounting basis
From AI-extracted PDF accounts
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence to 31 December 2025. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in the preparation of these financial statements. This is explained in further detail in note 1.”
Subsidiaries
- Aldrex Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Ambrose Wilson Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Better Living Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Classic Combination Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Comfortably Yours Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Crescent Direct Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Cuss Contractors Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Dale House (Mail Order) Ltd · 1% held · UK
- E Langfield & Co. Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Fashion World Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Figleaves Global Trading Limited · 1% held · UK
- Whitfords (Bury) Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Whitfords (Textiles) Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Whitfords (Cosytred) Ltd · 1% held · UK
- The Bury Boot & Shoe Co (1953) Ltd · 1% held · UK
- First Financial Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Gray & Osbourn Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Halwins Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Hartingdon House Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Heather Valley (Woollens) Ltd · 1% held · EH2 1EP
- Hilton Mailing Ltd · 1% held · UK
- House of Stirling (Direct Mail) Ltd · 1% held · UK
- J. D. Williams Merchandise Co Ltd · 1% held · UK
- JDW Finance Ltd · 1% held · UK
- JDW Pension Trustees Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Langley House Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Mature Wisdom Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Melgold Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Odhams Leisure Group Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Oxendale & Co. Ltd (Eire Reg) · 1% held · Ireland
- Reliable Collections Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Sander & Kay Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Speciality Home Shopping (US) Ltd · 1% held · UK
- Speciality Home Shopping (US Marketing) LLC · 1% held · UK
- The Value Catalogue Limited · 1% held · UK
- Trading By Post Ltd · 1% held · UK
- T-Bra Limited · 1% held · UK
Auditor / going-concern / subsidiary information is extracted from the PDF version of the latest annual accounts and is not tagged in iXBRL. About these numbers
People
5 active · 53 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WELLS, Christian Henry | Secretary | 2022-08-15 | — | — |
| APPLETON, Dominic | Director | 2023-06-07 | Apr 1972 | British |
| JOY, Daniel Barry | Director | 2020-01-06 | Dec 1972 | British |
| LEMAY, Malcolm | Director | 2025-04-01 | Jan 1958 | British |
| PIRANIE, Ashraf | Director | 2025-05-26 | Apr 1963 | British |
Show 53 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEAT, Stephanie Louise | Secretary | 2015-10-29 | 2016-06-24 |
| CASEY, Theresa | Secretary | 2016-06-24 | 2021-10-29 |
| MUSTARD, Michael William | Secretary | 2022-03-01 | 2022-08-15 |
| TYNAN, Peter John | Secretary | — | 2015-10-29 |
| WELLS, Christian | Secretary | 2021-10-29 | 2022-03-01 |
| ALLIANCE, Nigel | Director | 2012-12-20 | 2019-07-10 |
| ALLIANCE, Nigel | Director | — | 1995-08-31 |
| ARMITAGE, Mark Adrian | Director | 2001-07-16 | 2004-03-22 |
| BASNETT, Keith | Director | 1997-12-10 | 2004-03-22 |
| BEVERIDGE, Iain Anderson | Director | 1994-05-17 | 1999-11-09 |
| BULLAS, Michael Stuart | Director | 2002-11-01 | 2004-03-12 |
| BURGIN, Judith Margaret | Director | 2001-01-01 | 2002-03-29 |
| CARR, Ian | Director | 2011-09-13 | 2018-03-31 |
| CHESHIRE, Mark | Director | 2007-08-13 | 2014-10-01 |
| CLARK, Richard John | Director | 2017-05-02 | 2018-07-02 |
| COOK, Gerald | Director | 1994-08-16 | 2003-01-24 |
| CUNNINGHAM, Robert Michael | Director | 1994-06-06 | 1997-08-31 |
| DA CRUZ MILLER, Nuno Miguel | Director | 2021-11-01 | 2023-10-31 |
| FADIL, Alyson Tracey | Director | 2018-04-03 | 2023-10-31 |
| FOGWILL, Jonathan Harry Cecil | Director | 2013-02-01 | 2015-03-07 |
| GREEN, Graham | Director | 1997-08-18 | 2006-08-31 |
| GREEN, Nigel Ferguson | Director | — | 2000-09-01 |
| GREENWOOD, Michael Irvine | Director | — | 1994-05-17 |
| HAYWOOD, Andrew Paul | Director | 2014-08-04 | 2018-03-30 |
| HIGGINSON, Andrew Thomas | Director | 2012-08-07 | 2012-08-07 |
| HINCHCLIFFE, John | Director | 2003-09-15 | 2012-01-31 |
| IZZARD, Rachel | Director | 2020-04-06 | 2023-06-06 |
| JOHNSON, Stephen | Director | 2016-02-25 | 2026-03-24 |
| KENDRICK, Paul Robert | Director | 2008-02-25 | 2015-06-25 |
| KOWALSKI, Timothy John | Director | 1999-05-14 | 2003-12-02 |
| LEE, Angrew Stephen | Director | 2000-02-04 | 2003-08-31 |
| LOVELACE, Craig Barry | Director | 2015-05-11 | 2020-06-28 |
| MACFARLANE, Iain Sinclair | Director | — | 1997-12-24 |
| MARTIN, James | Director | — | 2002-09-02 |
| MASSINGHAM, Caroline Jane | Director | 2014-03-17 | 2016-12-31 |
| MCGOWAN, Neil Angus | Director | 2008-05-12 | 2014-09-08 |
| MOORE, Dean Roderick | Director | 2004-01-28 | 2015-04-30 |
| MURPHY, Mark Antony | Director | 2019-06-03 | 2020-01-09 |
| NELSON, Kenyatte | Director | 2019-06-03 | 2019-06-03 |
| NELSON, Kenyatte | Director | 2019-06-03 | 2022-10-14 |
| QUINN, Linda Elizabeth | Director | 2013-02-01 | 2015-12-31 |
| RISK, Keith James | Director | 2003-09-22 | 2011-11-30 |
| SHORT, Paul Newell | Director | 2004-07-27 | 2012-10-01 |
| SPINDLER, Angela Lesley | Director | 2013-07-01 | 2018-09-30 |
| STEER, Ann | Director | 2015-03-07 | 2019-01-25 |
| TUCKER, Ralph Eric | Director | 2015-03-07 | 2020-01-31 |
| WARNE, Adam John | Director | 2018-04-03 | 2021-10-01 |
| WELSH, Sarah Victoria | Director | 2020-03-30 | 2023-10-31 |
| WHITE, Alan | Director | 2002-09-02 | 2013-10-31 |
| WHITE, Alan | Director | — | 1999-05-14 |
| WILLIAMS, Denis George Montgomery | Director | — | 2007-01-05 |
| WOOD, Timothy Peter | Director | 1994-04-26 | 1998-06-12 |
| YATES, Robert David | Director | — | 1996-05-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J.D. Williams Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 260 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-27 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2026-02-23 | AA01 | accounts | change account reference date company previous shortened |
| 2025-08-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2025-07-02 | RP04AP01 | officers | second filing of director appointment with name |
| 2025-06-10 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
| 2025-05-27 | MA | incorporation | memorandum articles |
| 2025-05-16 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
| 2025-04-16 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | resolution |
| 2025-04-14 | MR01 | mortgage | mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date |
| 2025-04-14 | MR01 | mortgage | mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date |
| 2024-12-30 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2024-08-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2023-12-06 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2023-11-13 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2023-11-13 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2023-11-13 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2023-08-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2023-06-07 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
| 2023-06-06 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2022-11-28 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
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