PRIMARK STORES LIMITED

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 101

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Ernst & Young

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Company has received a letter of support from its immediate parent company, ABF Investments (No.2) Limited, indicating that it will receive the financial and other support necessary for the Company to trade and meet its liabilities as and when they become due for a period of twelve months from the date of signing of these financial statements.”

Significant events

• “2024 marked 50 years of Primark on the great British high street. The UK is Primark's biggest market, with 194 stores and over 33,000 retail colleagues. This year Primark invested £100 million in its UK store estate covering new stores, relocated stores and refits. The Company continued to expand and optimise its store portfolio with the opening of new stores in Bury St. Edmunds and Teesside, increasing our retail selling space by 0.1 million sq. ft. during the period to 7.8 million sq. ft. Click & Collect service is now in 57 stores in the UK and we expect this to be available in all stores in Great Britain by the end of 2025.”
• “After trialling Click & Collect across 57 stores across women's and kidswear, in April 2024 we announced plans to roll out our Click & Collect service to all stores across Great Britain by the end of 2025.”
• “The Company plans to open 5 new locations in the year and roll-out an extensive refit programme across its existing estate in the next year.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

3

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +1.4%

  £3,851,018,000 → £3,906,702,000

• Cash

  +13%

  £37,694,000 → £42,583,000

• Net assets

  -28.2%

  £1,389,425,000 → £997,360,000

• Employees

  +4.3%

  32,491 → 33,888

• Operating profit

  -1.5%

  £185,691,000 → £182,827,000

• Profit before tax

  +5.9%

  £141,178,000 → £149,494,000

• Wages

  +9.9%

  £476,244,000 → £523,471,000

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