BE MODERN LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-02-12 (in 9mo)
Last filed for 2025-05-10
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-16 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2026-01-02
Watchouts
Cash
£2M
-26.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£10M
-7.9% vs 2024
Employees
236
-7.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£998K
-4.8% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-05-10
| Metric | Trend | 2024-05-10 | 2025-05-10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £20,850,034 | £19,252,155 | |
| Operating profit | -£940,359 | -£1,005,713 | |
| Profit before tax | -£952,702 | -£998,179 | |
| Net profit | -£647,811 | -£839,825 | |
| Cash | £2,263,723 | £1,665,663 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £10,979,992 | £10,043,814 | |
| Net assets | £10,625,908 | £9,786,083 | |
| Equity | £10,625,908 | £9,786,083 | |
| Average employees | 254 | 236 | |
| Wages | £7,372,573 | £7,202,939 |
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 | 2024-05-10 | 2025-05-10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -4.5% | -5.2% | |
| Net margin | -3.1% | -4.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | -8.6% | -10.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 34.1% | 33.5% | |
| Current ratio | 2.55x | 2.58x | |
| Interest cover | -56.35x | -60.27x |
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
- UNW LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have prepared financial forecasts which indicate that the company will maintain sufficient financial headroom and cash reserves to enable it to continue meeting its liabilities as they fall due in the normal course of business, for at least the next twelve months following approval of these financial statements. After making enquiries, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, they continue to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- BE MODERN LIMITED · parent
- Marcraft Limited 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 17 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRIMES, Stephen Richard | Secretary | 2023-09-21 | — | — |
| GENT, Stephen Alan | Director | 2023-05-10 | Mar 1973 | British |
| GOODWIN, Stephen James | Director | 2023-11-21 | Apr 1975 | British |
| GRIMES, Stephen Richard | Director | 2023-05-10 | Mar 1962 | British |
| PEARSON, Julian Trevor | Director | 2020-04-24 | Sep 1968 | British |
| RAYNER, Steven Andrew | Director | 2023-11-21 | Sep 1977 | British |
| SIMPSON, Kevin | Director | 2021-05-04 | Feb 1969 | British |
| SPINK, Michael George | Director | 2018-11-22 | Sep 1972 | British |
Show 17 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREENHALGH, David | Secretary | — | 1996-09-28 |
| HARRIS, John Richard | Secretary | 1996-09-27 | 2023-09-21 |
| APPLEBY, Richard Ian | Director | 1996-09-30 | 2014-09-25 |
| BLOODWORTH, Craig | Director | 2008-05-01 | 2023-11-21 |
| BLOODWORTH, Garry | Director | — | 2010-09-16 |
| BLOODWORTH, Gregory | Director | 2000-01-04 | 2023-11-21 |
| BLOODWORTH, Walter | Director | — | 2022-01-13 |
| BOWMAN, Gregory Joseph | Director | — | 1993-05-30 |
| FINNIE, Mark Andrew | Director | 2018-01-03 | 2018-07-27 |
| GOUDIE, James Sandford | Director | — | 2002-09-06 |
| GREENHALGH, David | Director | — | 2004-05-07 |
| HACKETT, Keith Stuart | Director | 1994-01-24 | 1996-03-05 |
| HARRIS, John Richard | Director | 1999-04-14 | 2023-11-21 |
| JONES, David | Director | 1996-08-12 | 2012-09-19 |
| KIRTON, Barry | Director | 1996-09-30 | 2002-08-23 |
| MACARTHUR, David John | Director | 2017-08-11 | 2019-12-20 |
| MITCHEL, Simon Neil | Director | 2012-09-19 | 2016-12-07 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Be Modern Trustee Ltd | Corporate entity | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-trust | 2026-04-16 | Active |
| Mr Walter Bloodworth | Individual | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-firm, voting-rights-75-to-100-percent-as-firm, Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2017-01-03 | Ceased 2022-01-13 |
| Mr Gregory Bloodworth | Individual | ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-firm, voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2017-01-03 | Ceased 2017-01-03 |
| Be Modern Holdings Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2026-04-16 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 180 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-16 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-04-16 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-02-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-05 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-06-05 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-01-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-11-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-11-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-21 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-09-21 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-17 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-05-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- 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 2025-05-10 vs 2024-05-10
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Turnover
-7.7%
£20,850,034 £19,252,155
-
Cash
-26.4%
£2,263,723 £1,665,663
-
Net assets
-7.9%
£10,625,908 £9,786,083
-
Employees
-7.1%
254 236
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Operating profit
-6.9%
-£940,359 -£1,005,713
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Profit before tax
-4.8%
-£952,702 -£998,179
-
Wages
-2.3%
£7,372,573 £7,202,939
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