GEORGE BATEMAN & SON LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-16 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-02
Watchouts
Cash
£4M
+44.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£24M
+7% vs 2024
Employees
75
-2.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£2M
+49% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £20,295,973 | £21,781,463 | |
| Operating profit | £1,559,176 | £2,251,808 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,514,304 | £2,256,185 | |
| Net profit | £1,123,257 | £1,636,144 | |
| Cash | £2,505,923 | £3,616,007 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £27,103,238 | £28,414,046 | |
| Net assets | £22,575,127 | £24,154,688 | |
| Equity | £22,575,127 | £24,154,688 | |
| Average employees | 77 | 75 | |
| Wages | £2,235,783 | £2,531,700 |
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 | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 7.7% | 10.3% | |
| Net margin | 5.5% | 7.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 5.8% | 7.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 25.3% | 24.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.64x | 1.97x | |
| Interest cover | 14.43x | 22.42x |
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
- Streets Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 21 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTHUR, Nicholas Francis | Director | 2023-10-26 | Aug 1960 | British |
| BATEMAN, Jaclyn Carol | Director | — | Mar 1957 | British |
| BATEMAN, Stuart George Carson | Director | — | Apr 1960 | British |
| FURNISS, Ian William | Director | 2016-08-01 | Jan 1962 | British |
| HERBERT, Neil Vincent | Director | 2023-10-26 | Mar 1969 | British |
| MOORE, Jeffrey Philip | Director | 2011-09-01 | May 1954 | British |
| OLIVER, Stephen John | Director | 2010-05-28 | Jan 1958 | British |
Show 21 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELL, Stuart | Secretary | — | 1993-09-01 |
| DUGGAN, David Anthony | Secretary | 1994-08-01 | 2008-12-31 |
| PORTER, Charles Frank | Secretary | 1993-08-25 | 1994-08-01 |
| WOODWARD, John | Secretary | 2009-04-06 | 2016-08-31 |
| BATEMAN, George Gunson | Director | — | 2007-06-25 |
| BATEMAN, Patricia Mary Mcfaul | Director | — | 2005-03-07 |
| BEAN, Brian Christopher Samuel | Director | — | 2016-08-12 |
| BELL, Stuart | Director | — | 1993-11-24 |
| BIDDLE, Haydn | Director | 1994-11-02 | 2024-10-03 |
| CULLIMORE, Martin John | Director | 1991-11-08 | 2017-04-30 |
| DIXON, Basil | Director | 1993-08-25 | 2006-08-31 |
| DUGGAN, David Anthony | Director | 1993-07-26 | 2008-12-31 |
| EDWARDS, Andrew James | Director | 2014-09-08 | 2016-02-01 |
| ELSE, John Derek | Director | 2005-01-11 | 2023-08-10 |
| GREEN, Linda Janet | Director | 2015-02-03 | 2017-09-30 |
| HAMMOND, Peter Gerald | Director | 1997-12-17 | 2010-08-30 |
| JONES, Robert Daniel | Director | 2009-04-06 | 2010-11-30 |
| NORMAN, Anthony Oliver | Director | 1997-07-01 | 1998-04-07 |
| PORTER, Charles Frank | Director | — | 1994-08-01 |
| REED, Andrew Michael | Director | 2001-12-01 | 2014-08-29 |
| WOODWARD, John | Director | 2009-04-06 | 2016-08-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Jeffrey Philip Moore | Individual | Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2024-10-03 | Active |
| Mr Haydn Biddle | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2024-10-03 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 311 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-08-29 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-10-31 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-08-29 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2025-08-29 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2025-08-29 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2025-08-29 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-08-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-26 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-08-26 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-08-26 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-08-26 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-08-26 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-08-26 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-08-26 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-08-26 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-08-26 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-08-26 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-08-26 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-08-26 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-08-26 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 20
- Capital events
- 3
- 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 2025-01-31 vs 2024-01-31
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Turnover
+7.3%
£20,295,973 £21,781,463
-
Cash
+44.3%
£2,505,923 £3,616,007
-
Net assets
+7%
£22,575,127 £24,154,688
-
Employees
-2.6%
77 75
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Operating profit
+44.4%
£1,559,176 £2,251,808
-
Profit before tax
+49%
£1,514,304 £2,256,185
-
Wages
+13.2%
£2,235,783 £2,531,700
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