HORIZON MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-01-31 (in 8mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-03 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-20
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
-0.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£5M
+0.1% vs 2024
Employees
106
-5.4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£69K
+296.2% first positive since 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- HORIZON MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED 1977-12-31 → present
- ASHLEY ROAD MOTOR CO. (PARKSTONE) LIMITED 1971-11-15 → 1977-12-31
Net assets
5-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
5-year trend · latest reflected 2025-04-30
| Metric | Trend | 2021-04-30 | 2022-04-30 | 2023-04-30 | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £32,124,265 | £40,161,042 | £39,117,058 | £41,426,921 | £39,053,597 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | £34,818 | £107,265 | |
| Profit before tax | £698,866 | £796,307 | £475,188 | -£35,109 | £68,883 | |
| Net profit | £567,142 | £588,851 | £370,746 | -£50,558 | £30,010 | |
| Cash | — | — | — | £2,093,287 | £2,081,223 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | — | £4,586,130 | £4,590,936 | |
| Net assets | — | — | — | £4,549,929 | £4,554,939 | |
| Equity | £3,951,205 | £4,329,741 | £4,600,487 | £4,549,929 | £4,554,939 | |
| Average employees | — | — | — | 112 | 106 | |
| Wages | — | — | — | £3,141,956 | £3,193,865 |
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 | 2021-04-30 | 2022-04-30 | 2023-04-30 | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | — | — | 0.1% | 0.3% | |
| Net margin | 1.8% | 1.5% | 0.9% | -0.1% | 0.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | — | — | 0.8% | 2.3% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | — | 1.74x | 1.78x | |
| Interest cover | — | — | — | 0.49x | 2.29x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- HORIZON MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED · parent
- Magna Motor Company (Christchurch) Limited 51%
Significant events
- “Honda UK have changed their new car ordering system which removes a number of new car sales to be invoiced directly to the customer and therefore reduces the company's turnover.”
- “We have retained a financial provision to assist in the cleaning down of ex-demonstration EV vehicles and we are confident that this will not have any financial impact going forward into this new financial year.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RICKARD, Simon Nicholas | Secretary | — | — | British |
| RICKARD, Simon Nicholas | Director | 1996-05-01 | Sep 1949 | British |
| SHARPE, Christian Norman | Director | 2005-01-01 | Nov 1979 | British |
| SHARPE, Margaret Ann | Director | — | Oct 1947 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| EASTON, Stephen Jeffrey | Director | — | 1999-05-19 |
| FOSTER, Nicholas Peter | Director | — | 2017-07-21 |
| SHARPE, Aimee Marie | Director | 1998-11-02 | 2022-09-07 |
| SHARPE, Colin Ross | Director | — | 2023-02-03 |
| SPEED, John | Director | — | 2012-10-31 |
| STEVENS, Hannah Elizabeth | Director | — | 1994-12-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Ann Sharpe | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2025-01-30 | Active |
| Mr Colin Ross Sharpe | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-07-01 | Ceased 2023-02-03 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 134 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-10-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-09-24 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2025-02-26 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-26 | PSC09 | persons-with-significant-control | Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-01-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-12-12 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2023-12-11 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-10-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-10-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-11-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-02-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-10-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-04-06 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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 2025-04-30 vs 2024-04-30
-
Turnover
-5.7%
£41,426,921 £39,053,597
-
Cash
-0.6%
£2,093,287 £2,081,223
-
Net assets
+0.1%
£4,549,929 £4,554,939
-
Employees
-5.4%
112 106
-
Operating profit
+208.1%
£34,818 £107,265
-
Profit before tax
+296.2%
-£35,109 £68,883
first positive since 2024
-
Wages
+1.7%
£3,141,956 £3,193,865
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