KEN BOOTH & CO. LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-26 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-12
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
+14.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£4M
+9.3% vs 2024
Employees
83
+13.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£913K
-23.1% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £12,824,925 | £12,501,394 | |
| Operating profit | £1,173,137 | £845,433 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,187,924 | £912,961 | |
| Net profit | £874,825 | £665,136 | |
| Cash | £2,188,322 | £2,505,964 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £3,476,073 | £3,794,902 | |
| Net assets | £3,209,277 | £3,507,538 | |
| Equity | £3,209,277 | £3,507,538 | |
| Average employees | 73 | 83 | |
| Wages | £2,261,913 | £2,340,282 |
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 | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 9.1% | 6.8% | |
| Net margin | 6.8% | 5.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 33.7% | 22.3% | |
| Current ratio | 2.11x | 2.35x | |
| Interest cover | 216.93x | 59.03x |
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
- PEM Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate”
Group structure
- KEN BOOTH & CO. LIMITED · parent
- IC And P Wipers Limited 100%
- Come Clean Limited 100%
- Force Fresh Limited 100%
- Hamptons Ground Care Limited 100%
- CCL Supplies Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Following the financial year end, the Group completed the purchase of new commercial premises for £1.34 million, supporting future expansion and warehousing capacity.”
- “Subsequent to the year end the Company purchased a new commercial premises for £1,340,388.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOOTH, Steven Lawrence | Secretary | 2005-08-22 | — | English |
| BOOTH, Adam | Director | 2014-08-14 | May 1988 | British |
| BOOTH, Ashleigh | Director | 2014-08-14 | May 1990 | British |
| BOOTH, Steven Lawrence | Director | — | Aug 1963 | English |
| LILLEY, Caroline | Director | 2015-10-19 | May 1975 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOOTH, Mandy Nicola | Secretary | 1997-12-12 | 2005-08-22 |
| BOOTH, Phyllis Mary | Secretary | — | 1997-12-12 |
| BOOTH, Kenneth Arthur | Director | — | 1996-12-10 |
| BOOTH, Phyllis Mary | Director | — | 1997-12-12 |
| HOSEY, Marilyn Elizabeth | Director | — | 1995-05-31 |
| LYNCH, Keith | Director | 2005-08-22 | 2017-07-06 |
| PROUD, Nicholas Paul | Director | 1999-04-26 | 2005-08-22 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Steven Lawrence Booth | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 137 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-04-14 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-04-03 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2020-10-15 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2020-10-15 MA Memorandum articles
- 2020-10-15 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-04-14 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-04-03 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2025-04-03 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-10-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2024-06-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2023-06-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2022-06-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-11-09 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2021-09-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2021-06-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-03-13 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2021-03-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2020-10-27 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2020-10-15 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2020-10-15 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2020-10-15 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 1
- 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 2025-01-31 vs 2024-01-31
-
Turnover
-2.5%
£12,824,925 £12,501,394
-
Cash
+14.5%
£2,188,322 £2,505,964
-
Net assets
+9.3%
£3,209,277 £3,507,538
-
Employees
+13.7%
73 83
-
Operating profit
-27.9%
£1,173,137 £845,433
-
Profit before tax
-23.1%
£1,187,924 £912,961
-
Wages
+3.5%
£2,261,913 £2,340,282
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