DAMARTEX UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-03-31 (in 10mo)
Last filed for 2025-06-27
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-05 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-22
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£346K
-69.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£8M
-13% vs 2024
Employees
423
-16.4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£1M
+50.8% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- DAMARTEX UK LIMITED 2006-06-26 → present
- THERMAWEAR LIMITED 1979-12-31 → 2006-06-26
- DAMART THERMAWEAR (BRADFORD) LIMITED 1965-06-28 → 1979-12-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-06-27
| Metric | Trend | 2024-06-28 | 2025-06-27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £76,408,000 | £73,803,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£1,662,000 | -£234,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£2,309,000 | -£1,137,000 | |
| Net profit | -£2,193,000 | -£1,154,000 | |
| Cash | £1,131,000 | £346,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,050,000 | £6,021,000 | |
| Net assets | £9,127,000 | £7,945,000 | |
| Equity | £9,127,000 | £7,945,000 | |
| Average employees | 506 | 423 | |
| Wages | £12,033,000 | £10,913,000 |
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 | 2024-06-28 | 2025-06-27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -2.2% | -0.3% | |
| Net margin | -2.9% | -1.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | -23.6% | -3.9% | |
| Current ratio | 1.10x | 1.07x | |
| Interest cover | -2.57x | -0.26x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Armstrong Watson Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on all these considerations, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for a period to 30 November 2026. Thus, the directors consider it to be appropriate to continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- DAMARTEX UK LIMITED · parent
- S.H.C. Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Afibel SAS notified company on 15 May 2025 that it was moving to a pure website model for its UK customers and would no longer require company services for mail order customer services and consumer credit lending after June 2025.”
- “In February 2024, Damartex S.A. sold their 100% shareholding in Afibel SAS to an unrelated company but maintained a trading relationship with Damartex UK Limited.”
- “Since March 2025, the company has returned to retail, opening concession spaces within three independent department stores, three large garden centres and several outlet retail sites.”
- “The company's 100% owned subsidiary S.H.C. Limited was dissolved on 28 October 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 26 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRIEL, Edward Joseph | Secretary | 2020-01-06 | — | — |
| FRIEL, Edward Joseph | Director | 2020-01-06 | Feb 1968 | New Zealander |
| HOWARD-JONES, Jeanette | Director | 2024-10-25 | May 1972 | British |
Show 26 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOARDMAN, Allan Rome | Secretary | — | 1996-04-01 |
| CLARK, Stephen Anthony Roth | Secretary | 2003-07-01 | 2004-09-03 |
| CREELEY, Stuart | Secretary | 2004-09-03 | 2020-01-06 |
| MELLOR, Nigel | Secretary | 1996-04-01 | 2003-07-01 |
| ANDERSON, Philip Richard | Director | 2012-11-27 | 2015-01-30 |
| ARCH, Jill Pamela | Director | 1996-01-01 | 1998-11-13 |
| BOLAND, Pamela Jean | Director | 2007-12-03 | 2012-12-07 |
| BOTTOMLEY, John | Director | 1999-08-02 | 2013-02-15 |
| CORDALL, Lynn | Director | 2009-10-05 | 2019-05-31 |
| CREELEY, Stuart | Director | 2004-04-19 | 2020-01-06 |
| DAIGNES, Thierry Joseph Charles | Director | 2003-07-01 | 2008-07-10 |
| HEATON, Eric Russel | Director | — | 1996-04-10 |
| HILL, Andrew Ratcliffe | Director | 2003-07-01 | 2019-01-30 |
| MANNION, Fiona Mary Etain | Director | 2019-03-28 | 2024-10-31 |
| MARSDEN, Charles Anthony | Director | 1996-01-01 | 1999-06-30 |
| MELLOR, Nigel | Director | — | 2003-07-01 |
| MILLET, Jean-Francois | Director | 1998-12-02 | 2001-12-05 |
| MONTGOMERY, Linda Ann | Director | 2008-07-28 | 2020-08-28 |
| MULLINS, Kenneth | Director | — | 1998-11-06 |
| PARSONS, Rick | Director | 2002-01-02 | 2004-08-31 |
| SALVANET, Robert Julien Jacques | Director | 1995-03-01 | 2001-12-21 |
| SAWLEY, Granville | Director | — | 1996-10-31 |
| SMITH, Martin | Director | — | 1995-06-13 |
| STEIGER, John Anthony | Director | — | 1999-05-31 |
| VASILI, George | Director | 2005-01-31 | 2019-06-27 |
| WHITTLE, David James | Director | 1996-09-02 | 2007-07-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Damartex | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 188 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-17 | AUD | auditors | Auditors resignation company | |
| 2022-04-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-12-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-04-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-12-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2020-08-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-03-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-01-06 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2020-01-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-01-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
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 2025-06-27 vs 2024-06-28
-
Turnover
-3.4%
£76,408,000 £73,803,000
-
Cash
-69.4%
£1,131,000 £346,000
-
Net assets
-13%
£9,127,000 £7,945,000
-
Employees
-16.4%
506 423
-
Operating profit
+85.9%
-£1,662,000 -£234,000
-
Profit before tax
+50.8%
-£2,309,000 -£1,137,000
-
Wages
-9.3%
£12,033,000 £10,913,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers