DRON & DICKSON LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-02-28 (in 9mo)
Last filed for 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-14 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-31
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+80.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£15M
+2.8% vs 2024
Employees
120
+1.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£2M
-34.4% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- DRON & DICKSON LIMITED 2000-10-24 → present
- DRON AND DICKSON LIMITED 1927-04-22 → 2000-10-24
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-05-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-05-31 | 2025-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £54,805,875 | £51,464,249 | |
| Operating profit | £2,782,856 | £1,824,770 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,749,003 | £1,802,546 | |
| Net profit | £2,175,155 | £1,418,072 | |
| Cash | £1,120,498 | £2,021,578 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £15,103,600 | £15,558,414 | |
| Net assets | £14,959,858 | £15,377,930 | |
| Equity | £14,959,858 | £15,377,930 | |
| Average employees | 118 | 120 | |
| Wages | £5,907,387 | £5,159,077 |
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 | 2024-05-31 | 2025-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 5.1% | 3.5% | |
| Net margin | 4.0% | 2.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 18.4% | 11.7% | |
| Current ratio | 2.67x | 2.90x | |
| Interest cover | 78.91x | 78.67x |
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
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors are confident that the Company's strong financial position, combined with available bank facilities and contingency measures, will enable it to mitigate business risks as they arise. Therefore, the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, presuming the realisation of assets and liabilities in the normal course of business.”
Group structure
- DRON & DICKSON LIMITED · parent
- —
Significant events
- “relocated our Lowestoft branch to significantly larger and newly refurbished premises in Great Yarmouth”
- “opened our sixth Dron & Dickson UK branch in Teesside just after the year end in June”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 11 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROWLEY, Colin Michael | Secretary | 2007-08-31 | — | British |
| COLLINS, Leonard Peter | Director | 2019-01-03 | Apr 1979 | British |
| IRWIN, Thomas William Redmond | Director | 2018-10-01 | Apr 1979 | British |
| MCHATTIE, Bruce Alexander | Director | 2018-10-01 | Jun 1973 | British |
| ROWLEY, Colin Michael | Director | 1997-08-01 | May 1972 | British |
| STRANG, John Charles | Director | 2019-03-18 | Aug 1971 | British |
| WEST, Christopher Mark | Director | 2025-01-03 | Sep 1981 | British |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROWLEY, Marian Irene | Secretary | 1994-08-26 | 2007-08-31 |
| SINCLAIR, William John | Secretary | — | 1994-08-26 |
| JORDAN, Keith Stuart | Director | 2004-01-01 | 2005-05-26 |
| LAFFERTY, Gerard | Director | 2008-12-19 | 2018-12-18 |
| MAVER, Colin | Director | 2003-11-01 | 2019-01-15 |
| MCKENNA, Thomas Lindsay | Director | 1997-08-01 | 2009-03-12 |
| PENMAN, Brian Peter | Director | 2000-11-01 | 2005-01-28 |
| PLANK, David Allan | Director | 2000-11-01 | 2008-07-31 |
| ROWLEY, Arthur | Director | — | 2007-08-31 |
| ROWLEY, Marian Irene | Director | 1993-09-30 | 2006-10-31 |
| SINCLAIR, William John | Director | — | 1993-09-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dron & Dickson Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-10-31 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 194 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-03-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-03-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-03-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-03-18 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2025-03-18 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-01-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-12-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
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 2025-05-31 vs 2024-05-31
-
Turnover
-6.1%
£54,805,875 £51,464,249
-
Cash
+80.4%
£1,120,498 £2,021,578
-
Net assets
+2.8%
£14,959,858 £15,377,930
-
Employees
+1.7%
118 120
-
Operating profit
-34.4%
£2,782,856 £1,824,770
-
Profit before tax
-34.4%
£2,749,003 £1,802,546
-
Wages
-12.7%
£5,907,387 £5,159,077
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