HARVEY & SON (LEWES) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-16 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-02
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£9M
-4.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£51M
+3.4% vs 2023
Employees
208
+5.6% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£4M
+25.6% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £24,318,708 | £25,027,191 | |
| Operating profit | £3,155,099 | £3,891,744 | |
| Profit before tax | £3,375,563 | £4,238,646 | |
| Net profit | £2,662,634 | £3,217,577 | |
| Cash | £9,935,041 | £9,494,273 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £49,442,225 | £51,853,809 | |
| Net assets | £49,647,725 | £51,320,652 | |
| Equity | £49,647,725 | £51,320,652 | |
| Average employees | 197 | 208 | |
| Wages | £5,489,508 | £5,794,487 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 13.0% | 15.6% | |
| Net margin | 10.9% | 12.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 6.4% | 7.5% | |
| Current ratio | 4.07x | 3.44x | |
| Interest cover | 706.79x | 638.51x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- TC Group
- 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 Group's or the parent 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.”
Group structure
- HARVEY & SON (LEWES) LIMITED · parent
- Sussex Hospitality Services Limited 100%
Significant events
- “2024 turnover for the Harvey group rose to £25 Million, for the first time in the Company's history. Operating profit approached £3.9 Million, an increase of more than 23% over the previous year.”
- “Harveys substantially replaced the fleet of delivery vehicles in 2024.”
- “freehold acquisition of an adjoining depot site which came with a sitting tenant of good covenant providing a fixed income. The total site area now exceeds 4.5 acres.”
- “company finally completed the development of a large and historic public house site in Newhaven. The pub reopened in July 2024 and the site now includes seven self-contained flats, separately let.”
- “A large project to develop hospitality accommodation in conjunction with defensive spend was investigated for our historic brewery gate properties. This planning initiative should reach fruition in 2025.”
- “The company finally commissioned a canning line towards the year end.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELDER, Hamish Carlyon Rundle | Director | 1993-05-01 | Jul 1959 | British |
| JENNER, Miles Anthony | Director | — | Sep 1952 | British |
| PRESCOTT, Julia Margaret Harvey | Director | 2010-03-19 | Jul 1957 | British |
| SMITH, Adele Mackenzie | Director | 2009-05-22 | Apr 1970 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLASS, George Mcinnes | Secretary | 2012-10-01 | 2012-10-01 |
| INMAN, William Richard | Secretary | 1993-05-01 | 2012-09-28 |
| SAUNDERS, William Kenneth | Secretary | — | 1993-04-30 |
| ELDER, Audrey Harvey | Director | — | 2010-04-23 |
| JENNER, Anthony Alfred | Director | — | 2001-12-31 |
| SAUNDERS, Joan Daphne | Director | — | 2009-04-24 |
| SAUNDERS, William Kenneth | Director | — | 2010-04-23 |
| HARVEY & SON (LEWES) LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2009-05-22 | 2010-04-23 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Miles Anthony Jenner | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2017-04-06 | Active |
| Mrs Adele Mackenzie Smith | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 128 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-08-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-09-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-12-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-07-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-12-28 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2022-12-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-12-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-12-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-12-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-12-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-07-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-11-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-11-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-11-09 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2021-11-09 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2021-01-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-10-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2019-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+2.9%
£24,318,708 £25,027,191
-
Cash
-4.4%
£9,935,041 £9,494,273
-
Net assets
+3.4%
£49,647,725 £51,320,652
-
Employees
+5.6%
197 208
-
Operating profit
+23.3%
£3,155,099 £3,891,744
-
Profit before tax
+25.6%
£3,375,563 £4,238,646
-
Wages
+5.6%
£5,489,508 £5,794,487
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