BRAEMAR SHIPBROKING LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-11-30 (in 6mo)
Last filed for 2025-02-28
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-30 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-16
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£6M
+42.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£24M
+19.3% vs 2024
Employees
167
-5.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£5M
+16.5% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 5 times since incorporation
- BRAEMAR SHIPBROKING LIMITED 2022-09-08 → present
- BRAEMAR ACM SHIPBROKING LIMITED 2014-10-01 → 2022-09-08
- BRAEMAR SEASCOPE LIMITED 2001-12-10 → 2014-10-01
- SEASCOPE SHIPPING LIMITED 1982-09-29 → 2001-12-10
- SEASCOPE LIMITED 1980-12-31 → 1982-09-29
- SEASCOPE SHIPBROKERS LIMITED 1971-08-16 → 1980-12-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-02-28
| Metric | Trend | 2024-02-29 | 2025-02-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £67,082,000 | £57,745,000 | |
| Operating profit | £4,346,000 | £5,359,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £4,678,000 | £5,450,000 | |
| Net profit | £3,474,000 | £3,814,000 | |
| Cash | £4,277,000 | £6,093,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £19,895,000 | £23,727,000 | |
| Net assets | £19,895,000 | £23,727,000 | |
| Equity | £19,895,000 | £23,727,000 | |
| Average employees | 177 | 167 | |
| Wages | £35,945,000 | £30,425,000 |
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 | 2024-02-29 | 2025-02-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 6.5% | 9.3% | |
| Net margin | 5.2% | 6.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 21.8% | 22.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 72.2% | 55.5% | |
| Current ratio | 0.43x | 0.80x | |
| Interest cover | 167.15x | 267.95x |
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
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Financial Statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which assumes that the Company will continue in operational existence for a period of at least 12 months from the date of approval of the Financial Statements.”
Group structure
- BRAEMAR SHIPBROKING LIMITED · parent
- Braemar Seascope Italia SRL 100%
- Braemar ACM Shipbroking India Private Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Revenue has decreased from £67.1 million in the prior year to £57.7 million in the current year, mainly due to reduced chartering revenue in the second half of the year as a result of lower freight rates.”
- “Operating costs have decreased year on year from £62.7 million to £52.4 million largely due to decreased staff costs, due to decreased Broker bonuses.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 51 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WEKWETE, Rebecca-Joy Nozipho | Secretary | 2024-09-05 | — | — |
| BORTHWICK, Alistair Trond | Director | 2017-01-20 | Jun 1969 | British |
| FOLEY, Grant Jeffrey | Director | 2023-08-01 | Oct 1972 | British |
| GUNDY, James Christopher Duchar | Director | 2015-01-30 | Apr 1965 | British |
Show 51 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUSTIN, Thomas Terence | Secretary | 1997-05-20 | 2000-11-30 |
| BUGDEN, Laura Mary | Secretary | 2011-06-01 | 2013-12-12 |
| KIDWELL, James Richard De Villeneuve | Secretary | 2002-08-01 | 2011-06-24 |
| MASON, Peter Timothy James | Secretary | 2017-09-01 | 2022-07-14 |
| SOUTHERN, James Charles | Secretary | — | 1997-05-20 |
| VANE, Alexander Chandos Tempest | Secretary | 2013-12-12 | 2017-08-18 |
| WALTER, Derek Edmund Piers | Secretary | 2000-11-30 | 2002-08-01 |
| ABEL, Robert Francis | Director | — | 2002-03-26 |
| AUSTIN, Thomas Terence | Director | — | 2001-06-30 |
| BATT, Christopher | Director | 2012-02-13 | 2012-07-06 |
| BEER, Martin Francis Stafford | Director | 2013-08-21 | 2015-06-24 |
| BODKIN, John Hunter | Director | — | 2012-11-01 |
| BOLLAND, Julian Raymond Fearne | Director | 1992-04-06 | 2000-11-30 |
| BOWYER, Neil Brian | Director | 1996-10-02 | 2001-01-05 |
| BUCKLEY, Christopher | Director | — | 2005-08-31 |
| CAGNOLI, Massimo | Director | 2012-02-13 | 2012-10-22 |
| CASE, Andrew Leigh | Director | 2002-08-06 | 2006-05-22 |
| CUNDALL, Charles Henry | Director | 1992-04-06 | 2015-02-20 |
| CUNNINGHAM, Guy Christopher | Director | 2006-08-24 | 2010-06-30 |
| DAVENPORT-THOMAS, Sebastian Guy | Director | 2010-08-01 | 2023-09-30 |
| DIXON, Tony Fredwyn | Director | — | 2002-03-26 |
| DONALDSON, Robert Bruce | Director | 1992-04-06 | 2002-03-26 |
| EVANS, Louise Margaret | Director | 2015-06-25 | 2018-06-29 |
| GOODRICH, Steven Graham | Director | 2006-08-24 | 2010-06-30 |
| HILL, Duncan John | Director | 1998-09-21 | 2000-06-22 |
| JACKSON, Glen Stewart | Director | 2015-02-20 | 2017-10-30 |
| JEWELL, Philip Nicholas | Director | 2012-02-13 | 2012-10-22 |
| KIDWELL, James Richard De Villeneuve | Director | 2002-08-01 | 2019-07-26 |
| KINROSS, Julian Macalister | Director | — | 2001-01-05 |
| LONG, Christopher Frederick | Director | 1992-04-06 | 1995-10-20 |
| LORKIN, John | Director | 2012-02-13 | 2015-02-20 |
| MARCH, Ross James | Director | 2012-02-13 | 2014-12-12 |
| MARSH, Alan Robert William | Director | 2001-03-20 | 2014-12-12 |
| MORECROFT, Simon Frank Peter | Director | 2002-08-06 | 2021-10-14 |
| MULLEY, John Norman | Director | — | 1999-07-28 |
| PETROPOULOS, Denis Andreas | Director | 2002-08-06 | 2017-11-15 |
| RAE, Andrew | Director | 1997-07-01 | 2002-03-26 |
| RUDD, Michael Amyas Charles | Director | 2015-01-30 | 2018-04-26 |
| SHAW, Iain Malcolm | Director | — | 2006-06-21 |
| SIMMONDS, Tristram Peter | Director | 2022-09-07 | 2025-03-07 |
| SJOBERG, Nicholas John | Director | 2006-08-24 | 2010-06-30 |
| SOANES, Quentin Bruce | Director | 2001-03-20 | 2012-10-22 |
| SOUTHAN, Jonathan Robert James | Director | 2006-08-24 | 2010-06-30 |
| STONE, Nicholas Philip | Director | 2019-07-08 | 2023-07-31 |
| STREVENS, Alan Douglas Brian | Director | — | 2002-02-28 |
| WALTER, Derek Edmund Piers | Director | 2000-11-30 | 2002-07-31 |
| WARD, Vincent Glendower | Director | — | 2000-11-30 |
| WILLIAMS, Andrew Michael Glyndwr | Director | 1992-04-06 | 2021-09-14 |
| WILSON, Michael Allen | Director | 2012-02-13 | 2016-01-21 |
| WILSON, Stephen | Director | 2012-02-13 | 2015-02-20 |
| YOUNG, Thomas David Hayward | Director | — | 1999-10-05 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braemar Shipbroking Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 252 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-09-08 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-03-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-11-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-06 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-06-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-03-26 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-02-22 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-12-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-12-23 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-12-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-11-15 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-09-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-09-08 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company |
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 2025-02-28 vs 2024-02-29
-
Turnover
-13.9%
£67,082,000 £57,745,000
-
Cash
+42.5%
£4,277,000 £6,093,000
-
Net assets
+19.3%
£19,895,000 £23,727,000
-
Employees
-5.6%
177 167
-
Operating profit
+23.3%
£4,346,000 £5,359,000
-
Profit before tax
+16.5%
£4,678,000 £5,450,000
-
Wages
-15.4%
£35,945,000 £30,425,000
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