LIBRA TEXTILES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-04-14 (in 11mo)
Last made up 2026-03-31
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£376K
-70.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£33M
+4.1% vs 2024
Employees
697
-1.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£2M
+18.5% vs 2024
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
3-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-01-31 | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £31,998,835 | £32,491,792 | |
| Operating profit | — | £3,188,216 | £2,943,103 | |
| Profit before tax | — | £1,716,271 | £2,034,313 | |
| Net profit | — | £1,343,043 | £1,304,296 | |
| Cash | — | £1,271,607 | £375,807 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £43,191,422 | £43,151,353 | |
| Net assets | — | £31,934,707 | £33,239,003 | |
| Equity | — | £31,934,707 | £33,239,003 | |
| Average employees | — | 709 | 697 | |
| Wages | — | £11,337,581 | £13,817,226 |
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 | 2023-01-31 | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | 10.0% | 9.1% | |
| Net margin | — | 4.2% | 4.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 7.4% | 6.8% | |
| Current ratio | — | 1.51x | 1.55x | |
| Interest cover | — | 2.16x | 3.06x |
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
- Pierce C A Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors believe that the company has sufficient funds available to support its activities in the future.”
Significant events
- “Turnover in the year only showed a modest increase, increasing by 1.5% on the previous period.”
- “A reduction in the amount and cost of borrowing resulted in the overall profit before taxation being higher than last year at £2.0m (2024 - £1.7m).”
- “After the taxation charge for the year, analysed in note 10, £1.3m has been added to the reserves.”
- “In the year, the company consumed 5.0 million kWh of Electricity which equated to 885 tonnes of carbon, 1.08 million of kWh of Gas which equated to 198 tonnes of carbon and 20,832 litres of Diesel which equated to 31 tonnes of carbon.”
- “Electricity consumption has been reduced in the year by the installation of Solar panels on the roof of the Colne store and the company is looking at the feasibility of adding them elsewhere.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHUKER, Nigel | Secretary | 2023-09-01 | — | — |
| BANNISTER, Benjamin Richard Michael | Director | 2019-04-01 | Mar 1989 | British |
| BANNISTER, Richard Michael Rennie | Director | — | Oct 1961 | British |
| HIBBERT, Jane Elizabeth | Director | 2025-11-19 | Oct 1965 | British |
| SHUKER, Nigel | Director | 2023-09-01 | Jun 1968 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BANNISTER, Ethne Alison | Secretary | — | 1993-01-30 |
| BANNISTER, Janine Elizabeth | Secretary | 1993-01-30 | 2021-02-04 |
| MITCHELL, Robert William | Secretary | 2021-02-05 | 2023-04-30 |
| BANNISTER, Ethne Alison | Director | — | 2018-01-31 |
| BANNISTER, Janine Elizabeth | Director | — | 2021-02-04 |
| BANNISTER, Michael John Rennie | Director | — | 2018-01-31 |
| DICKSON, Peter John | Director | 2005-06-07 | 2009-01-28 |
| FLANAGAN, Michelle Nicola | Director | 2014-08-18 | 2017-02-04 |
| JONES, Loraine Gloria | Director | 1995-08-01 | 1999-06-28 |
| MCCLINTOCK, Annmarie | Director | 2014-07-15 | 2018-11-14 |
| MCGRATH, Cheryl Rhona | Director | 1999-07-01 | 2014-08-16 |
| MIDDLEMISS, George Richardson | Director | 2015-06-09 | 2019-04-11 |
| MITCHELL, Robert William | Director | 2019-06-10 | 2023-04-30 |
| SHUKER, Nigel | Director | 1999-07-01 | 2014-11-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Libra Textiles Holdings Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2021-02-04 | Active |
| Mr Richard Michael Rennie Bannister | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2017-03-01 | Ceased 2021-02-04 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 160 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-14 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-04-14 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-04-14 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-04-14 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-04-14 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-04-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-03-13 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-11-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-26 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-11-26 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-10-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-04-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-04 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-09-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-05 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-03-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 11
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
+1.5%
£31,998,835 £32,491,792
-
Cash
-70.4%
£1,271,607 £375,807
-
Net assets
+4.1%
£31,934,707 £33,239,003
-
Employees
-1.7%
709 697
-
Operating profit
-7.7%
£3,188,216 £2,943,103
-
Profit before tax
+18.5%
£1,716,271 £2,034,313
-
Wages
+21.9%
£11,337,581 £13,817,226
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