AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-05 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-21
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£111M
+46.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£1B
-3.8% vs 2024
Employees
6,907
-0.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£88M
+4.8% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED 1985-02-27 → present
- PRECIS (353) LIMITED 1985-01-18 → 1985-02-27
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £725,000,000 | £765,000,000 | |
| Operating profit | £11,000,000 | £14,000,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £84,000,000 | £88,000,000 | |
| Net profit | £75,000,000 | £79,000,000 | |
| Cash | £76,000,000 | £111,000,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,317,000,000 | £1,268,000,000 | |
| Net assets | £1,099,000,000 | £1,057,000,000 | |
| Equity | £1,099,000,000 | £1,057,000,000 | |
| Average employees | 6,956 | 6,907 | |
| Wages | £186,000,000 | £201,000,000 |
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 | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.5% | 1.8% | |
| Net margin | 10.3% | 10.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 0.8% | 1.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 50.3% | 56.4% | |
| Current ratio | 1.75x | 1.51x | |
| Interest cover | 1.10x | 1.27x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Company has adequate financial resources due to the Company's own net current asset position (2025: £595m, 2024: £670m). The Directors have concluded that the Company has sufficient funds to continue trading for this period and the foreseeable future without significant curtailment of operations. Therefore, the financial statements have been prepared using the going concern basis.”
Group structure
- AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED · parent
- AA Financial Services Limited 100%
- Personal Insurance Mortgages and Savings Limited 100%
- A.A. Pensions Trustees Limited 100%
- Automobile Association Insurance Services Holdings Limited 100%
- A A The Driving School Agency Limited 100%
- AA Brand Management Limited 100%
- Automobile Association Holdings Limited 100%
- Automobile Association Services Limited 100%
- AA Pension Funding LP Limited 100%
- AA Pension Funding GP Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 10 February 2025, the AA Limited group ("Group") renewed its £200m Liquidity Facility with an effective date of 5 March 2025. The facility remains undrawn.”
- “On 18 March, the Group successfully refinanced its £165m Senior Term Facility and £56m Working Capital Facility ahead of their 10 March 2026 maturity date. The Group has entered into a new £95m Senior Term Facility and a new £70m fixed rate Private Placement, both with maturity dates in March 2030.”
- “On 1 April 2025, the Group entered into a financing arrangement with Basing TopCo Limited, an indirect parent of AA Limited. Under this arrangement the Group may borrow up to £60m for the sole purpose of redeeming Class B3 Notes, to the extent any remaining outstanding on the 31 January 2026 maturity date.”
- “On 14 May 2025, the Group redeemed a further £62m of Class B3 Notes at par.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 59 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COX, James Edward | Secretary | 2021-10-01 | — | — |
| KEELING, Dean Christopher | Director | 2021-11-10 | Oct 1975 | British |
| MACKAY, Thomas Owen | Director | 2021-11-15 | Mar 1975 | British |
| PFAUDLER, Jakob, Dr | Director | 2021-04-14 | Feb 1972 | Austrian |
Show 59 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEN, Tracy Lorraine | Secretary | 1999-09-23 | 2002-01-01 |
| DAVIES, John | Secretary | 2007-12-14 | 2012-08-17 |
| FLEMING, Catherine Elinor | Secretary | 1997-10-13 | 1999-06-08 |
| FREE, Catherine Marie | Secretary | 2018-04-17 | 2018-07-02 |
| GARRIHY, Anne | Secretary | 1999-09-23 | 2000-02-18 |
| HARRISON, Maxine Louise | Secretary | 1998-01-14 | 1999-09-23 |
| HAYNES, Victoria | Secretary | 2013-07-31 | 2014-04-22 |
| HOOSEN, Nadia | Secretary | 2018-07-02 | 2021-05-31 |
| MILLAR, Mark Falcon | Secretary | 2014-09-08 | 2018-04-17 |
| RITCHIE, Ian | Secretary | 2000-02-18 | 2002-01-01 |
| SCOTT, Robert James | Secretary | 2014-04-22 | 2014-09-08 |
| SKEEN, Colin Jeffrey | Secretary | — | 1998-01-14 |
| STRINGER, Andrew Paul | Secretary | 2012-08-17 | 2013-07-31 |
| TROUSDALE, Carolyn | Secretary | 2005-06-01 | 2007-12-14 |
| CENTRICA SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2002-01-01 | 2004-09-30 |
| CLIFFORD CHANCE SECRETARIES (CCA) LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2004-09-30 | 2005-06-01 |
| ASHTON, Stephen David | Director | 2008-10-29 | 2011-06-30 |
| AUSTIN, James Richard Mackay | Director | 2013-01-31 | 2014-05-30 |
| BENTLEY, Phillip Keague | Director | 2000-11-20 | 2004-09-30 |
| BOLAND, Andrew Kenneth | Director | 2009-02-01 | 2014-12-19 |
| BREAKWELL, Simon John | Director | 2017-11-22 | 2021-04-14 |
| CHASE, Robert Henry Armitage | Director | — | 1996-10-02 |
| CHINN, Trevor Edwin, Sir | Director | 2004-09-30 | 2005-01-18 |
| CLARE, Mark Sydney | Director | 1999-09-23 | 2004-09-30 |
| CLARKE, Martin Andrew, Dr | Director | 2015-07-01 | 2019-04-29 |
| CUTBILL, Michael Andrew | Director | 2013-01-31 | 2014-12-31 |
| DANGERFIELD, Kevin Jeremy | Director | 2020-01-06 | 2021-11-12 |
| DAWSON, Ian Grant | Director | 1999-09-23 | 2004-09-30 |
| DEWEY, Steven | Director | 2013-01-31 | 2014-10-17 |
| DOUGLAS, Simon David George | Director | 2013-01-31 | 2014-08-31 |
| DYER, Simon | Director | — | 1996-02-19 |
| FAIRCLOTH, Kenneth George | Director | — | 1994-11-25 |
| GARDNER, Roy Alan, Sir | Director | 1999-09-23 | 2004-09-30 |
| GOODSELL, John Andrew | Director | 2013-01-31 | 2013-10-01 |
| HASZLAKIEWICZ, Mark John Carson | Director | 1993-12-01 | 1998-03-02 |
| HOWARD, Stuart Michael | Director | 2007-09-18 | 2013-10-01 |
| HURLEY, Roy Benjamin Matthew | Director | — | 1993-07-14 |
| JANSEN, Christopher Trevor Peter | Director | 2014-01-06 | 2014-08-31 |
| JOHNSON, Peter David | Director | 1992-10-13 | 1999-02-17 |
| KIRKWOOD, Gareth Robert | Director | 2017-11-22 | 2021-10-29 |
| KUNC, Oliver James | Director | 2014-12-01 | 2017-05-31 |
| LAWRENCE DAWSON, John Anthony | Director | 1996-02-07 | 1999-09-23 |
| LLOYD, Michael Samuel | Director | 2017-02-10 | 2018-05-25 |
| LLOYD-JUKES, Kirsty Elizabeth Rachel | Director | 2016-05-13 | 2017-12-08 |
| MACKENZIE, Robert David | Director | 2015-07-01 | 2017-08-01 |
| MAXWELL, John Hunter | Director | 1996-12-02 | 1999-09-23 |
| MILLAR, Mark Falcon | Director | 2015-04-09 | 2018-04-17 |
| PARKER, Timothy Charles | Director | 2004-09-30 | 2007-09-18 |
| RICHARDSON, Kerry Francis | Director | — | 1999-09-23 |
| SCOTT, Robert James | Director | 2014-09-17 | 2016-05-13 |
| SKEEN, Colin Jeffrey | Director | 1998-01-14 | 1999-09-23 |
| STRICKLAND, Mark William | Director | 2017-08-07 | 2020-01-06 |
| STRONG, Andrew Jonathan Peter | Director | 2007-09-18 | 2014-01-06 |
| TANZER, Mark John Eric | Director | 1999-04-07 | 1999-09-23 |
| THACKWRAY, Frank Carlyle | Director | — | 1999-09-23 |
| THOMAS, David Roberts | Director | — | 1993-04-06 |
| WOOD, Gregory Mark | Director | 1994-03-08 | 1996-10-31 |
| WOOLF, Paul Antony | Director | 2005-01-06 | 2007-09-17 |
| YOUNG, Stephen Gareth | Director | 1998-03-02 | 1999-09-23 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aa Corporation Limited | Corporate entity | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-firm, voting-rights-75-to-100-percent-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 337 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-01-05 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part both with charge number | |
| 2025-07-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-20 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-06-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-01 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-07-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-11-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-11-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-11-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-11-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-10-13 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2021-07-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-07-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-06-28 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-01-31 vs 2024-01-31
-
Turnover
+5.5%
£725,000,000 £765,000,000
-
Cash
+46.1%
£76,000,000 £111,000,000
-
Net assets
-3.8%
£1,099,000,000 £1,057,000,000
-
Employees
-0.7%
6,956 6,907
-
Operating profit
+27.3%
£11,000,000 £14,000,000
-
Profit before tax
+4.8%
£84,000,000 £88,000,000
-
Wages
+8.1%
£186,000,000 £201,000,000
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