BRAVESHIRE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-06-30
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-21 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-03-07
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£14M
-4.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£137M
+124.4% vs 2023
Employees
315
-25.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£77M
+1,232.5% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-06-30
| Metric | Trend | 2023-06-30 | 2024-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £102,841,000 | £68,106,000 | |
| Operating profit | £6,465,000 | £1,439,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £5,806,000 | £77,366,000 | |
| Net profit | £3,567,000 | £76,785,000 | |
| Cash | £15,136,000 | £14,463,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £86,029,000 | £137,824,000 | |
| Net assets | £61,055,000 | £137,033,000 | |
| Equity | £62,887,000 | £138,819,000 | |
| Average employees | 424 | 315 | |
| Wages | £21,384,000 | £12,402,000 |
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 | 2023-06-30 | 2024-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 6.3% | 2.1% | |
| Net margin | 3.5% | 112.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.5% | 1.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 38.1% | 4.3% | |
| Current ratio | 4.50x | 25.01x | |
| Interest cover | 5.67x | 2.67x |
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
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“During the year, the group has generated profit before tax of £77,366,000 (2023: profit of £5,806,000). The group has a strong balance sheet and cash position and can comfortably meet its financial obligations for a minimum of twelve months from the signing of these accounts.”
Group structure
- BRAVESHIRE LIMITED · parent
- W.E. Rawson Limited 100%
- Carrystore Limited 100%
- Rawson Carpets Limited 99%
- Rawson Fillings Limited 100%
- Applied Felts Limited 99%
- Laserline Systems Limited 99%
- A. Clegg & Son Limited 99%
- Impreline Technologies Limited 99%
- Feltex Limited 100%
- Applied Felts (India) Private Limited 100%
- USS India Limited 100%
- RS Technic Holding A.G. 75%
- RS Technic A.G. 75%
- RS Technic International (D) GmbH 75%
Significant events
- “On 22.12.23 the Group sold its 100 per cent interest in the ordinary share capital of Applied Felts Inc.”
- “It was announced on the 2nd September 2024 that the acting Finance Director, Andrew Watson, would be assuming the role of Managing Director for W.E. Rawson Limited with immediate effect.”
- “Following a strategic review, the board of directors decided to restructure the Carpets division as a private label supplier and will focus on core speciality products, all overheads associated with the branding and marketing of Carpets will be removed in the year ended 30th June 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WATSON, Andrew Charles | Secretary | 2013-04-22 | — | — |
| JOHNSON, Alexander Charles Edward | Director | 1999-08-23 | Mar 1962 | British |
| JOHNSON, Stephen William | Director | 2024-01-18 | Jul 1960 | British |
| RAWSON, Ann | Director | — | Nov 1938 | British |
| RAWSON, Hector Elsworth | Director | — | Sep 1939 | British |
| RAWSON, Julia | Director | 1999-08-23 | Dec 1961 | British |
| VALERO, Joanna | Director | 1999-08-23 | Mar 1964 | British |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITTINGHAM, David Michael | Secretary | — | 2013-04-22 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ann Rawson | Individual | Appoints directors | 2023-10-31 | Active |
| Mr Hector Elsworth Rawson | Individual | Appoints directors | 2017-01-01 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 111 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-11-11 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-11-11 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-03-25 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-07-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-03-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-04-25 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-04-24 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-03-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-02-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-11-14 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2023-11-14 | SH10 | capital | Capital variation of rights attached to shares | |
| 2023-11-11 | SH02 | capital | Capital alter shares subdivision | |
| 2023-11-11 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-11-11 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-11-07 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-04-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-06-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-03-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-06-30 vs 2023-06-30
-
Turnover
-33.8%
£102,841,000 £68,106,000
-
Cash
-4.4%
£15,136,000 £14,463,000
-
Net assets
+124.4%
£61,055,000 £137,033,000
-
Employees
-25.7%
424 315
-
Operating profit
-77.7%
£6,465,000 £1,439,000
-
Profit before tax
+1,232.5%
£5,806,000 £77,366,000
-
Wages
-42%
£21,384,000 £12,402,000
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