O. HEAP & SON (DERBY) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-27 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-13
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£175K
-17.6% vs 2023
Net assets
£959K
+10.2% vs 2023
Employees
141
+2.9% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£118K
-78.7% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £20,626,239 | £20,853,931 | |
| Operating profit | £611,330 | £160,171 | |
| Profit before tax | £554,802 | £117,934 | |
| Net profit | £451,560 | £88,357 | |
| Cash | £212,932 | £175,421 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,009,336 | £1,124,993 | |
| Net assets | £870,427 | £958,784 | |
| Equity | £870,427 | £958,784 | |
| Average employees | 137 | 141 | |
| Wages | £5,129,491 | £5,622,221 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.0% | 0.8% | |
| Net margin | 2.2% | 0.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 60.6% | 14.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 81.4% | 80.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.00x | 1.00x | |
| Interest cover | 10.72x | 3.31x |
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
- Johnson Tidsall Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“With the continued support of the director, and our ongoing relationships with our suppliers, and customers both old and new, we believe this will allow the company to continue to grow and continue trading comfortably.”
Significant events
- “The company has given an unlimited cross guarantee to HSBC Bank Plc in respect of the bank borrowings of Namco Finance Limited, which at 31 December 2024 amounted to £564,985 (2023: £610,541).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 3 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARKIN, Gavin Stuart | Secretary | 2012-03-01 | — | — |
| HEAP, Nicholas Wesley | Director | 2012-03-01 | May 1970 | British |
Show 3 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEAP, Audrey Jean | Secretary | — | 2012-03-01 |
| HEAP, Audrey Jean | Director | — | 2014-06-25 |
| HEAP, Norman Wesley | Director | — | 2016-05-12 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Namco Finance Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 94 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-03 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-12-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-10-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-11-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-01-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-11-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2019-11-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2019-09-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2018-11-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2018-09-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2018-01-22 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2018-01-22 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2017-11-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+1.1%
£20,626,239 £20,853,931
-
Cash
-17.6%
£212,932 £175,421
-
Net assets
+10.2%
£870,427 £958,784
-
Employees
+2.9%
137 141
-
Operating profit
-73.8%
£611,330 £160,171
-
Profit before tax
-78.7%
£554,802 £117,934
-
Wages
+9.6%
£5,129,491 £5,622,221
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