HALE & CO. (DRYBROOK) LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-07 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-23
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
-3% vs 2023
Net assets
£7M
-4% vs 2023
Employees
54
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£331K
-261.9% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- HALE & CO. (DRYBROOK) LTD 2016-06-10 → present
- HALE AND CO. (DRYBROOK) LIMITED 1960-12-29 → 2016-06-10
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £6,306,466 | £5,730,951 | |
| Operating profit | -£52,310 | -£386,816 | |
| Profit before tax | -£91,585 | -£331,448 | |
| Net profit | -£81,031 | -£274,781 | |
| Cash | £2,701,870 | £2,621,664 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,287,932 | £6,944,904 | |
| Net assets | £7,146,066 | £6,859,705 | |
| Equity | £7,146,066 | £6,859,705 | |
| Average employees | 54 | 54 | |
| Wages | £1,486,151 | £1,521,621 |
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 | -0.8% | -6.7% | |
| Net margin | -1.3% | -4.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | -0.7% | -5.6% | |
| Current ratio | 7.42x | 6.37x | |
| Interest cover | -3.86x | -24.75x |
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
- Pitt Godden & Taylor LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The company has more than sufficient current assets to enable it to meets its obligations as they fall due for a period of at least 12 months from the date of signing these accounts.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 5 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HALE, Leslie | Secretary | 2009-12-21 | — | — |
| HALE, Jacob David | Director | 2014-12-01 | Sep 1981 | British |
| HALE, Jane Catherine | Director | 2009-12-21 | Mar 1952 | British |
| HALE, Leslie | Director | — | Mar 1952 | British |
| HALE, Samuel Benjamin | Director | 2018-11-22 | Jul 1985 | British |
Show 5 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALE, Gwendoline Ann | Secretary | 1996-08-08 | 2009-12-21 |
| HALE, Roger | Secretary | — | 1996-08-08 |
| HALE, Gwendoline Ann | Director | 2000-06-01 | 2009-12-21 |
| HALE, Roderick James | Director | — | 1996-07-04 |
| HALE, Roger | Director | — | 2000-06-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drybrook Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-09-23 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 99 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-10-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-09-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-09-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2018-12-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2018-10-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2018-09-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2017-10-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2017-09-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2016-10-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with 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
-9.1%
£6,306,466 £5,730,951
-
Cash
-3%
£2,701,870 £2,621,664
-
Net assets
-4%
£7,146,066 £6,859,705
-
Employees
0%
54 54
-
Operating profit
-639.5%
-£52,310 -£386,816
-
Profit before tax
-261.9%
-£91,585 -£331,448
-
Wages
+2.4%
£1,486,151 £1,521,621
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