WILSON ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-28 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2026-01-14
Watchouts
Cash
£3M
-47.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£12M
-19.6% vs 2024
Employees
99
+3.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£1M
-27.9% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- WILSON ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED 1998-04-15 → present
- WILSON ELECTRICAL WHOLESALERS (LONDON) LIMITED 1980-02-14 → 1998-04-15
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £25,796,629 | £23,801,135 | |
| Operating profit | £1,686,078 | £1,142,066 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,846,632 | £1,332,291 | |
| Net profit | £1,403,161 | £997,950 | |
| Cash | £5,397,850 | £2,832,225 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £15,255,650 | £12,262,450 | |
| Net assets | £15,255,650 | £12,262,450 | |
| Equity | £15,255,650 | £12,262,450 | |
| Average employees | 96 | 99 | |
| Wages | £4,039,723 | £4,051,262 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 6.5% | 4.8% | |
| Net margin | 5.4% | 4.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 11.1% | 9.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 16.8% | 19.6% | |
| Current ratio | 4.38x | 3.51x | |
| Interest cover | 4496.21x | — |
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
- Azets Audit Services Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company 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.”
Significant events
- “The unexpected departure of Paul Davies, for personal reasons, has reduced the company's cash balances and left a hole in the senior management which will be filled shortly to ensure that the sales decline is reversed.”
- “Following the re-purchase of the companies own share capital from the former director, the ultimate controlling party is A J Powell.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| POWELL, Alexander John | Secretary | 1997-05-02 | — | British |
| POWELL, Alexander John | Director | 1997-05-02 | Mar 1952 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARKER, George Henry | Secretary | — | 1997-05-02 |
| DAVIES, Paul | Director | 1997-05-07 | 2025-03-31 |
| RICHES, John | Director | — | 2003-12-31 |
| WILLIAMS, Derek Reginald | Director | 1997-05-07 | 2019-01-17 |
| WILSON, Eric Leonard William | Director | — | 1997-05-02 |
| WILSON, Maureen Phyllis | Director | — | 1997-05-02 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Anthony Cutting | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2025-04-01 | Active |
| Mr Paul Davies | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2019-01-17 | Ceased 2025-03-31 |
| Mr Alexander John Powell | Individual | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 150 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-01-20 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-10-15 | ANNOTATION | miscellaneous | Legacy | |
| 2025-10-15 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-07-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-13 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-04-01 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-01 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-01 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-01-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-10-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-10-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-09-27 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2024-08-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-09-13 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2023-07-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-09 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2023-01-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 4
- 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 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
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Turnover
-7.7%
£25,796,629 £23,801,135
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Cash
-47.5%
£5,397,850 £2,832,225
-
Net assets
-19.6%
£15,255,650 £12,262,450
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Employees
+3.1%
96 99
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Operating profit
-32.3%
£1,686,078 £1,142,066
-
Profit before tax
-27.9%
£1,846,632 £1,332,291
-
Wages
+0.3%
£4,039,723 £4,051,262
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