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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

  1. M C GROUP LIMITED 1990-11-16 → present
  2. J.T.S. HIRE LIMITED 1986-07-09 → 1990-11-16

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31

Metric Trend 2023-12-312024-12-31
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 316329
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 2023-12-312024-12-31
Operating margin 9.0%8.1%
Net margin 5.4%4.2%
Return on capital employed 13.0%10.3%
Current ratio 0.90x0.90x
Interest cover 3.91x3.07x

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

  1. M C GROUP LIMITED · parent
    1. MC Rental Limited 100% · England and Wales · Vehicle and truck rental
    2. MC Truck and Bus Limited 100% · England and Wales · Truck distribution

Significant events

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 PDF
2024-06-25 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type group
2024-05-21 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
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 PDF
2023-06-08 PSC07 persons-with-significant-control Cessation of a person with significant control PDF
2023-05-19 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2022-07-28 MR04 mortgage Mortgage satisfy charge full PDF
2022-06-14 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type group
2022-05-20 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2021-07-06 CH01 officers Change person director company with change date PDF
2021-06-03 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type group
2021-05-17 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2020-12-01 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2020-10-20 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type group
2020-10-06 MR04 mortgage Mortgage satisfy charge full PDF
2020-10-06 MR04 mortgage Mortgage satisfy charge full PDF
2020-10-06 MR04 mortgage Mortgage satisfy charge full PDF
2020-10-06 MR04 mortgage Mortgage satisfy charge full PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
2

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
0

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

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

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