GORGEMEAD LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-05-31 (this month)
Last filed for 2024-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-14 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-31
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£49M
-13.7% vs 2023
Employees
1,486
-1.8% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£8M
-155.4% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £253,337,411 | £254,564,928 | |
| Operating profit | -£2,703,118 | -£7,899,750 | |
| Profit before tax | -£3,235,065 | -£8,263,531 | |
| Net profit | -£5,690,973 | -£7,792,083 | |
| Cash | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £58,815,343 | £50,576,898 | |
| Net assets | £56,491,429 | £48,724,431 | |
| Equity | £56,491,429 | £48,724,431 | |
| Average employees | 1,513 | 1,486 | |
| Wages | £38,398,696 | £40,750,030 |
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 | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -1.1% | -3.1% | |
| Net margin | -2.2% | -3.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | -4.6% | -15.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 65.9% | 69.7% | |
| Current ratio | 0.45x | 0.44x | |
| Interest cover | -5.08x | -21.72x |
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
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Accordingly, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the group and the company have adequate, resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, being at least 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements. Thus they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- GORGEMEAD LIMITED · parent
- Darwen (H.C.C.) Limited 1%
- Assan Pharmacy Limited 1%
- Assan Pharmacy (South West) Limited 1%
- Kamal & Associates Limited 1%
- Bridge Pharmacy Limited 1%
- Douglas Skeeles Limited 1%
- Harvey and Richardson Limited (1) 1%
- Harvey and Richardson (Holdings) Limited 1%
- Ratebrook Limited 1%
- Linelaunch Limited 1%
- HN Espley & Sons Limited 1%
- Pharmacy Express Limited 1%
- Nash Drug Company Limited 1%
- Yorkshire Street Pharmacy Limited 1%
- GSH Mossgate Limited 1%
- Kidderminster Health Consortium Limited 1%
- S&D Ross Limited 1%
- Middle Chare Pharmacy Limited (1) 1%
- Denchem Limited 1%
- R. Hindhaugh (Chemists) Limited 1%
- Market Weighton Pharmacy Limited 1%
- Old Cross Pharmacy Limited 1%
- Group Pharmacy 1968 Limited 1%
- Richardson Pharmacy Limited 1%
- Melling Pharmacy Limited 1%
- JN Murray Holdings Limited 1%
- James Helgason Limited 1%
- J.N. Murray Limited (1) 1%
- Hunt and Marsden (Bolton) Limited 1%
- Brinnington Pharmacy Limited 1%
- Westfrost Limited 1%
- W.A.Hawkin and Sons Limited 1%
- Falsgrave Health Care Limited 1%
- Lallian Pharmacy Limited 1%
- LP SD One hundred two limited 1%
- Freshney Green Health Consortium Limited 0.2%
- Crown Heights Consortium (No2) Limited 0.33%
Significant events
- “On 6th December 2024 the company sold the trade and assets of a pharmacy at 22 Gillygate, York for total consideration of £400,000”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GAFFNEY, Rebecca | Secretary | 2021-04-26 | — | — |
| CAUNCE, Andrew John | Director | 2020-03-20 | Jun 1974 | British |
| HALL, Stephen David | Director | 2015-07-23 | Aug 1954 | British |
| ISMAIL, Aziz Anwer | Director | 2021-04-28 | Jul 1991 | British |
| MILLER, Benjamin Lawrence | Director | 2021-04-12 | May 1982 | British |
| PATEL, Yakub Ibrahim | Director | — | Aug 1953 | British |
| SERRANT, Zoe | Director | 2012-01-01 | Aug 1973 | British |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, Anwer Ibrahim Issa Ismail | Secretary | — | 2021-04-26 |
| CAPLAN, David Stuart | Director | 2012-01-01 | 2012-01-01 |
| COLLINS, Adam | Director | 2022-11-29 | 2025-07-15 |
| FISHWICK, Craig Bernard | Director | 2011-11-01 | 2016-04-21 |
| ISMAIL, Hawabou | Director | — | 2011-10-31 |
| JOHN, Andrew Robert | Director | 2016-09-01 | 2020-02-14 |
| PATEL, Anwer Ibrahim Issa Ismail | Director | — | 2021-04-28 |
| PATEL, Mehrun | Director | — | 2007-03-20 |
| PATEL, Yasmin | Director | — | 2007-03-20 |
| WILD, Steven | Director | 2006-07-28 | 2015-08-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Aziz Anwer Ismail | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors | 2025-08-29 | Active |
| Mr Anwer Ibrahim Issa Ismail Patel | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm, Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-04-28 |
| Mr Yakub Ibrahim Patel | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm, Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 246 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-10-15 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-29 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-08-28 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-07-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-15 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-06-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-22 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-09-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-11-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2022-11-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2022-11-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2022-09-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-03-24 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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 2024-08-31 vs 2023-08-31
-
Turnover
+0.5%
£253,337,411 £254,564,928
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
-13.7%
£56,491,429 £48,724,431
-
Employees
-1.8%
1,513 1,486
-
Operating profit
-192.2%
-£2,703,118 -£7,899,750
-
Profit before tax
-155.4%
-£3,235,065 -£8,263,531
-
Wages
+6.1%
£38,398,696 £40,750,030
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