STEPHENS AND GEORGE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-22 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-08
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
-11.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£15M
+1.1% vs 2024
Employees
194
0% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£515K
-32.6% 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 | £34,564,041 | £31,435,846 | |
| Operating profit | £1,539,380 | £1,258,362 | |
| Profit before tax | £763,048 | £514,671 | |
| Net profit | £372,362 | £154,680 | |
| Cash | £4,452,176 | £3,923,895 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £24,974,393 | £24,785,231 | |
| Net assets | £14,393,567 | £14,548,247 | |
| Equity | £14,393,567 | £14,548,247 | |
| Average employees | 194 | 194 | |
| Wages | £7,034,500 | £6,930,180 |
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 | 4.5% | 4.0% | |
| Net margin | 1.1% | 0.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 6.2% | 5.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 59.0% | 55.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.35x | 1.54x | |
| Interest cover | 1.78x | 1.56x |
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
- Hazlewoods LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After reviewing the group's and company's forecasts and projections, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the group and company have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The group and company therefore continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing their financial statements.”
Group structure
- STEPHENS AND GEORGE LIMITED · parent
- Stephens and George Magazines Limited 100%
- Woodforce Limited 100%
- Stephens and George Commercial Limited 100%
- DRH Business Systems Limited 75%
- Foxgate Limited 100%
- The Enfield Printing Company Limited 100%
- Pensord Press Limited 100%
- Cambrian Printers Limited 100%
- Pensord Digital Limited 100%
- Pensord Twenty10 Limited 100%
- Pensord Holdings Limited 100%
- BM 203 Limited 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEBATTISTA, Darren James | Director | 2006-05-18 | Apr 1967 | British |
| ENOCH, Paul | Director | 2019-04-01 | Apr 1972 | British |
| JONES, Andrew Lewis George | Director | — | Dec 1960 | British |
| JONES, Vanessa Audrey | Director | 2015-09-01 | Mar 1964 | British |
| PARTRIDGE, Marcus Jason | Director | 2019-04-01 | Mar 1972 | British |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, Suzanne Lorraine | Secretary | 1993-12-22 | 1998-09-10 |
| MATHIAS, Clive | Secretary | 2014-09-10 | 2025-03-31 |
| MATHIAS, Clive Stanley | Secretary | 1998-09-10 | 2014-09-10 |
| PACITTI, Caroline Margaret | Secretary | — | 1993-09-29 |
| BIRD, William George | Director | — | 2009-07-31 |
| COOK, Paul John Anthony | Director | 2006-05-18 | 2009-02-27 |
| DAVIES, Nicholas Simon | Director | 2011-04-01 | 2021-04-30 |
| JONES, Gareth George | Director | — | 2004-10-30 |
| JOSE, John David | Director | — | 2001-08-02 |
| MOSS, Simon John | Director | 2006-05-18 | 2007-08-17 |
| PACITTI, Caroline Margaret | Director | — | 1993-09-29 |
| PRESSLING, Nicholas Andrew | Director | 2006-05-18 | 2022-05-31 |
| ROGERS, Keith | Director | — | 1992-11-16 |
| STURGEON, Colin Peter | Director | 1992-12-01 | 1993-09-09 |
| WILLIAMS, Anthony Mark | Director | 2006-05-18 | 2009-07-22 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Vanessa Audrey Jones | Individual | ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-trust | 2026-03-23 | Active |
| Mr Andrew Lewis George Jones | Individual | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 239 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-30 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-03-30 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-10-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-07 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-09-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-11-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-09-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-12-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-09-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-05-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-01-11 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2020-12-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-12-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2020-10-06 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2020-10-06 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- 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
-9.1%
£34,564,041 £31,435,846
-
Cash
-11.9%
£4,452,176 £3,923,895
-
Net assets
+1.1%
£14,393,567 £14,548,247
-
Employees
0%
194 194
-
Operating profit
-18.3%
£1,539,380 £1,258,362
-
Profit before tax
-32.6%
£763,048 £514,671
-
Wages
-1.5%
£7,034,500 £6,930,180
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