DAYLA HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-22 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-08
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£11M
-3.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£12M
+9.9% vs 2024
Employees
173
+7.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£2M
+1.5% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- DAYLA HOLDINGS LIMITED 2000-11-08 → present
- DAYLA LIMITED 1961-01-26 → 2000-11-08
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 | £54,382,521 | £59,867,257 | |
| Operating profit | £1,580,821 | £1,505,703 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,595,622 | £1,620,322 | |
| Net profit | £1,115,510 | £1,223,427 | |
| Cash | £11,132,690 | £10,744,788 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £12,394,290 | £13,658,267 | |
| Net assets | £11,344,044 | £12,467,471 | |
| Equity | £11,344,044 | £12,467,471 | |
| Average employees | 161 | 173 | |
| Wages | £5,907,037 | £6,602,811 |
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 | 2.9% | 2.5% | |
| Net margin | 2.1% | 2.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 12.8% | 11.0% | |
| Current ratio | 2.36x | 2.69x | |
| Interest cover | 7.29x | 6.47x |
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
- Hillier Hopkins LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the director's 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
- DAYLA HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
- Holland Properties (Aylesbury) Limited 100%
- Dayla Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The new second site of 36,000 square feet was finally commissioned as a fully-fledged 2nd depot midway through the year and is now predominantly serving London due to its ability to operate longer hours.”
- “The Directors are on target with their 5 year plan for the business, as set out in 2023, involving relocation to a Super Depot single site operation to run 24/7.”
- “The Group has declared a dividend of £100,000 during the year ended 2025 (2024: £50,000).”
- “The Group continues to see acquisition as the way forward as consolidation within the fiercely competitive marketplace takes shape. Equally the Group intends on looking at vertically integrated options within the On Trade Licensed sector.”
- “Due to the significant growth in turnover and number of customers as well as products, the Group has taken the decision to add extra storage facilities to see it through the next 5 years, at which point relocation to a single multi-purpose site is the overall aim to be able to progress more organic development as well as any strategic geographic acquisitions.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COOPER, Timothy John | Secretary | 2008-05-28 | — | British |
| COOPER, Timothy John | Director | — | Apr 1957 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOPER, Margaret Patricia | Secretary | — | 2008-05-28 |
| COOPER, Margaret Patricia | Director | — | 2013-05-17 |
| COOPER, Richard Ernest | Director | — | 2014-01-20 |
| MACMILLAN, Joan Mary | Director | — | 1999-10-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Susan Frances Lapham | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
| Mr Timothy John Cooper | Individual | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 113 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-11-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-11-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-11-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-11-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-02-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-11-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-11-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2019-11-01 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2019-10-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2019-09-24 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2018-11-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2018-10-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2017-11-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2017-10-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-01-31 vs 2024-01-31
-
Turnover
+10.1%
£54,382,521 £59,867,257
-
Cash
-3.5%
£11,132,690 £10,744,788
-
Net assets
+9.9%
£11,344,044 £12,467,471
-
Employees
+7.5%
161 173
-
Operating profit
-4.8%
£1,580,821 £1,505,703
-
Profit before tax
+1.5%
£1,595,622 £1,620,322
-
Wages
+11.8%
£5,907,037 £6,602,811
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