KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN (GREAT BRITAIN) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-27 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-29
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-05 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-21
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
—
Equity attributable
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£98M
Period ending 2024-12-29
Profit before tax
1-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
1-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-29
| Metric | Trend | 2024-12-29 |
|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £280,227,000 | |
| Operating profit | £93,945,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £97,969,000 | |
| Net profit | £68,956,000 | |
| Cash | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | |
| Net assets | — | |
| Equity | — | |
| Average employees | — | |
| Wages | — |
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 | 2024-12-29 |
|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 33.5% | |
| Net margin | 24.6% | |
| Interest cover | 69.49x |
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
- Blick Rothenberg Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which assumed the company will continue to be both a cash generating entity and be able to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least the next twelve months. The Directors have concluded that it is appropriate to adopt the going concern basis, having undertaken an assessment of the cashflow forecasts for a period of twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements.”
Group structure
- KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN (GREAT BRITAIN) LIMITED · parent
- KFC Advertising Limited 100%
- Southern Fast Foods Limited 100%
- Finger Lickin' Chicken Limited 100%
- Clokken Limited 100%
- Clokken Ireland Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 29 April 2024, Kentucky Fried Chicken (Great Britain) Limited completed the acquisition of Clokken Limited and Clokken Ireland Limited from EG Group. The purchase comprised trade and operations for 216 KFC restaurants in the UK and Republic of Ireland.”
- “Post period end on 31 January 2025 and 22 March 2025, the company made dividend payments of £80,000,000 and £30,000,000 respectively to it's immediate parent, Restaurant Holdings Limited.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 63 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMS, Michael Robert Campion | Secretary | 2019-08-23 | — | — |
| SWAIN, Robert James | Director | 2025-03-14 | Jun 1979 | British |
| WHITEHORN, James Matthew | Director | 2022-03-23 | Jan 1987 | British |
Show 63 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVERISS, Joanne Kerry | Secretary | 1994-05-03 | 1995-10-03 |
| BOYNTON, Clare Marie | Secretary | 2016-07-11 | 2019-08-23 |
| BROAD, Gary Peter | Secretary | 1995-10-03 | 1999-07-31 |
| DIXON, David George | Secretary | 1999-07-31 | 2003-04-03 |
| GILES, Simon Kenneth | Secretary | 2008-07-16 | 2011-09-23 |
| MCROBIE, Frederick Sutherland | Secretary | 1993-12-01 | 1994-05-03 |
| TAYLOR, Georgina Jane | Secretary | 2011-09-23 | 2016-04-01 |
| THOMSON, Neil Hamilton | Secretary | 2002-08-01 | 2005-11-01 |
| WILSON, Paul James | Secretary | — | 1993-12-01 |
| WILSON, Strahan Leonard Arthur | Secretary | 2005-11-01 | 2008-07-16 |
| ALLAN, Graham Denis, Mr. | Director | 1994-05-26 | 2001-07-19 |
| ARMSTRONG, David James | Director | 1995-12-20 | 1997-05-16 |
| ASH, Justinian Joseph | Director | 2000-07-07 | 2004-03-25 |
| ASHBY, Timothy John | Director | 1996-07-09 | 1999-06-04 |
| ASHFORD, George Oliver | Director | 2001-07-19 | 2003-11-24 |
| AVERISS, Joanne Kerry | Director | 1995-10-03 | 1996-07-09 |
| BHANSALI, Jayasheel Arun | Director | 2003-08-26 | 2005-07-29 |
| BROAD, Gary Peter | Director | 1998-04-07 | 1999-07-31 |
| CHAUDHARY, Niren | Director | 2001-07-19 | 2007-03-12 |
| CRANOR, John Marion | Director | 1992-07-01 | 1994-07-21 |
| DREW, Christopher Alexander | Director | 2017-03-24 | 2022-09-13 |
| ENGEL, Anthony Ernest | Director | — | 1993-12-01 |
| FARREN, Meghan | Director | 2022-10-05 | 2025-02-28 |
| FELLS, Christopher Reiach | Director | 2015-02-02 | 2018-04-30 |
| FELLS, Christopher Reiach | Director | 2003-11-24 | 2006-10-01 |
| FIELDGATE, Everett Weston | Director | 2010-03-01 | 2012-12-07 |
| FOX, Mark William | Director | 2007-08-20 | 2009-03-03 |
| GARMSTON, Christopher John | Director | 1992-02-28 | 1995-10-03 |
| GEHIN, Siobhan | Director | 1999-05-12 | 2001-06-18 |
| GOVIER, Ian Paul | Director | 1999-05-12 | 2000-08-17 |
| GRAEMIGER, Albert | Director | 2008-01-02 | 2010-03-01 |
| GRAFF, Anthony | Director | 1999-05-12 | 2000-03-31 |
| GRAHNE, Mikael | Director | — | 1992-02-28 |
| HARRISON CHURCH, Claire | Director | 2002-01-10 | 2005-10-03 |
| HAURE PETERSEN, Morten Steen | Director | 2001-06-18 | 2003-07-31 |
| HEARL, Peter Roland | Director | 1993-12-01 | 1996-06-01 |
| HEARN, Alan John | Director | — | 1992-03-10 |
| HIGGINS, Kevin | Director | 1998-04-06 | 2002-01-10 |
| HODDING, Edward Mark Montagu | Director | 1999-09-24 | 2004-10-13 |
| HOFMA, Jens Tjeerd | Director | 2005-07-29 | 2009-03-03 |
| HOLMES, Christopher Robert | Director | 2015-12-01 | 2019-04-08 |
| HUSTON, Allan | Director | — | 1992-07-01 |
| JOHANNSEN, Jens Christian | Director | 2002-01-10 | 2006-10-01 |
| JOHNSON, Gregory Francis | Director | 1993-12-01 | 1994-05-26 |
| KOSER, Gregg Steven | Director | 1999-05-12 | 2001-01-18 |
| MACKENZIE, Paula | Director | 2013-03-11 | 2022-05-27 |
| MASLEN, Peter | Director | 1999-05-12 | 1999-07-20 |
| MCCORMICK, Mathew James William | Director | 2019-07-22 | 2025-02-28 |
| MCGOWAN, Murray Henry | Director | 2010-05-04 | 2013-12-13 |
| MCROBIE, Frederick Sutherland | Director | 1994-07-21 | 1995-10-03 |
| MONNICKENDAM, Anthony Louis | Director | 1992-03-10 | 1993-12-01 |
| MORRISON, Neil Richard | Director | 2022-03-23 | 2022-10-06 |
| PERREN, Alison Elizabeth | Director | 2001-07-19 | 2007-04-30 |
| PROCTOR, George Frederick Little | Director | — | 1993-12-01 |
| REICH, Misty | Director | 2009-03-03 | 2012-02-08 |
| ROYDEN, David Neal | Director | 2002-01-10 | 2006-06-30 |
| RUETHER, Karl Heinz | Director | 1999-09-24 | 2002-01-10 |
| SCHOFIELD, Ivan | Director | 1999-07-31 | 2001-07-19 |
| SCOBIE, Ronald Melrose | Director | 1994-06-01 | 1995-04-28 |
| SHUKER, Martin Raymond Francis | Director | 2004-03-25 | 2020-01-15 |
| SHUKER, Martin Raymond Francis | Director | 1997-10-06 | 1999-09-13 |
| TOOLAN, Vincent | Director | 2001-07-19 | 2003-01-04 |
| WATTS, James Duncan | Director | 2012-02-08 | 2014-12-16 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurant Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-12-12 | Active |
| Yum! Restaurant Holdings | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-12-12 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 301 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-07-01 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2025-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-14 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2025-07-14 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2025-06-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-07-01 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2024-07-01 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2024-07-01 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2024-07-01 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-05-17 | RP04SH01 | capital | Second filing capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-05-09 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-12-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-07-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 4
- 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
Latest filed period vs the prior one