M C GROUP LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-31 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-17
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£11M
-15.6% vs 2023
Net assets
£58M
+5.6% vs 2023
Employees
329
+4.1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£8M
-18.7% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- M C GROUP LIMITED 1990-11-16 → present
- J.T.S. HIRE LIMITED 1986-07-09 → 1990-11-16
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £145,917,634 | £143,629,599 | |
| Operating profit | £13,163,229 | £11,681,974 | |
| Profit before tax | £10,154,886 | £8,258,653 | |
| Net profit | £7,865,835 | £6,099,533 | |
| Cash | £12,777,840 | £10,780,840 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £101,490,810 | £113,724,893 | |
| Net assets | £54,909,559 | £58,009,092 | |
| Equity | £54,909,559 | £58,009,092 | |
| Average employees | 316 | 329 | |
| Wages | £16,278,085 | £16,752,221 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 9.0% | 8.1% | |
| Net margin | 5.4% | 4.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 13.0% | 10.3% | |
| Current ratio | 0.90x | 0.90x | |
| Interest cover | 3.91x | 3.07x |
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
- S&W Audit
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Group has net current liabilities of £4,183,155 (2023: £5,331,981) which is in common with vehicle rental businesses generally. However, under existing accounting conventions no account is taken for the future gross contractual revenue which, for the next 12 months, stands at £26,021,937 (2023: £27,666,788) excluding break clauses. The parent Company and Group prepare detailed budgets and cash flow forecasts together with rolling 5 year projections. Based on this information the Group is expected to generate positive cash flows for the foreseeable future due to ongoing profitability and asset disposals. The Group has undertaken stress testing on various sales assumptions. Based on current trading the decline in sales needed for the Group to extinguish its cash reserves within the next 12 months was not deemed plausible. Working capital requirements are funded by retained earnings and forecasts show that there is sufficient liquidity for the business to continue in operation. The directors therefore have the reasonable expectation that the parent Company and Group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- M C GROUP LIMITED · parent
- MC Rental Limited 100%
- MC Truck and Bus Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Over the past couple of years' the Company has carried out an extensive refurbishment program to all of its locations in order to further enhance the customer experience and is proud to have been awarded Volvo's "Dealer of the Year" for 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOOTH, Peter David | Secretary | 1998-07-20 | — | British |
| BOOTH, Peter David | Director | 1999-04-08 | Jul 1963 | British |
| DAWSON, Simon James | Director | — | Jan 1971 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAWSON, Simon James | Secretary | 1998-06-02 | 1998-07-20 |
| GILES, Peter | Secretary | — | 1998-06-03 |
| DAWSON, Anthony Edward | Director | — | 2009-11-27 |
| DAWSON, Perry Margaret | Director | — | 2009-11-27 |
| HARMAN, John William | Director | 2006-02-23 | 2010-12-31 |
| HUTCHINS, David Kenneth | Director | 2015-01-01 | 2020-12-01 |
| MARSH, Michael Anthony | Director | 1993-12-06 | 1994-05-06 |
| MOON, Henry Alfred | Director | 2006-02-23 | 2010-12-31 |
| MOON, Henry Alfred | Director | 1993-12-06 | 1998-05-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mcg (Holdings) Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2023-06-08 | Active |
| Mr Simon James Dawson | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2023-06-08 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 161 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-05-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-05-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-06-08 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-06-08 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-05-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-28 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2022-06-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-05-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-06-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-05-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-12-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-10-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-10-06 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2020-10-06 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2020-10-06 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2020-10-06 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-1.6%
£145,917,634 £143,629,599
-
Cash
-15.6%
£12,777,840 £10,780,840
-
Net assets
+5.6%
£54,909,559 £58,009,092
-
Employees
+4.1%
316 329
-
Operating profit
-11.3%
£13,163,229 £11,681,974
-
Profit before tax
-18.7%
£10,154,886 £8,258,653
-
Wages
+2.9%
£16,278,085 £16,752,221
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