CORNEY AND BARROW LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-01-31 (in 8mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-04 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-20
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£10M
-17.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£40M
+10.4% vs 2024
Employees
186
-1.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£9M
-6% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- CORNEY AND BARROW LIMITED 1988-11-01 → present
- GAMEDRAGON LIMITED 1988-09-14 → 1988-11-01
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-04-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £87,534,000 | £90,337,000 | |
| Operating profit | £8,988,000 | £8,682,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £9,488,000 | £8,918,000 | |
| Net profit | £6,958,000 | £6,691,000 | |
| Cash | £12,412,000 | £10,245,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £37,136,000 | £40,974,000 | |
| Net assets | £35,879,000 | £39,626,000 | |
| Equity | £35,879,000 | £39,626,000 | |
| Average employees | 188 | 186 | |
| Wages | £10,241,000 | £10,606,000 |
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 | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 10.3% | 9.6% | |
| Net margin | 7.9% | 7.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 24.2% | 21.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.65x | 1.80x | |
| Interest cover | 154.97x | 163.81x |
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
- PKF Littlejohn LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“On the basis of their assessment of the Group's financial position, the Company's Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group will be able to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing these Financial Statements.”
Group structure
- CORNEY AND BARROW LIMITED · parent
- Corney & Barrow (Scotland) Limited 100%
- Whighams of Ayr Limited 100%
- Corney and Barrow Hong Kong Limited 100%
- Corney and Barrow Fine Wine Merchants (Shanghai) Limited 100%
- Corney and Barrow Fine Wine Merchants (Singapore) PTE Limited 100%
- Whighams Young & Saunders Limited 100%
Significant events
- “There have been no significant post balance sheet events subsequent to the year-end.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SANDERSON, Winston Spencer Brian | Secretary | 2006-10-31 | — | British |
| BRETT-SMITH, Adam De La Falaise Brett | Director | — | Jun 1956 | British |
| DUFFY, Simon Joseph | Director | 2015-10-19 | Oct 1976 | British |
| FRASER, Bryce Gordon | Director | 2004-05-26 | Feb 1963 | British |
| GRIGSBY, Bernard Candler | Director | 2016-12-19 | May 1949 | American |
| HARTLEY, Oliver | Director | 2003-09-01 | Oct 1967 | British |
| SANDERSON, Winston Spencer Brian | Director | 2020-12-10 | May 1963 | British |
| SIBLEY, Damian Theobald Oliver | Director | 2016-12-19 | Apr 1969 | British |
| WEATHERALL, Edward Percy Keswick | Director | 2009-03-18 | Oct 1957 | British |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| STIFF, David Charles | Secretary | — | 2006-10-01 |
| BROWN, James Alexander | Director | — | 1999-07-14 |
| BROWN, Simon William Bridgemore | Director | 2008-11-01 | 2016-11-29 |
| BURKE, Clare Jacqueline | Director | 1995-06-26 | 2003-08-07 |
| FRESHWATER, Timothy George | Director | 2016-12-19 | 2025-03-31 |
| GARDNER, Edward John Willoughby | Director | 2008-09-01 | 2013-04-30 |
| GORDON, Andrew Charles Ramsay | Director | 1992-02-01 | 2004-09-17 |
| HARDIE, David Anthony | Director | 2001-02-12 | 2009-10-01 |
| KERNICK, Robert Charles | Director | — | 2009-03-05 |
| KIMMINS, Malcolm Brian Johnston | Director | — | 2001-02-12 |
| MASTERS, Paul Stanton | Director | 1999-07-01 | 2020-12-10 |
| MCLAREN, David John | Director | 1991-09-25 | 2016-12-19 |
| PEAT, Richard Henry | Director | — | 2004-03-16 |
| SHAW, Gabrielle Patricia | Director | — | 1993-01-29 |
| STIFF, David Charles | Director | — | 2006-10-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corney & Barrow Merchanting Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 154 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-06-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-06-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-06-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-11-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-06-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-11-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-06-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-12-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-12-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-11-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-06-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-11-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-06-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2018-12-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2018-06-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2017-11-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-04-30 vs 2024-04-30
-
Turnover
+3.2%
£87,534,000 £90,337,000
-
Cash
-17.5%
£12,412,000 £10,245,000
-
Net assets
+10.4%
£35,879,000 £39,626,000
-
Employees
-1.1%
188 186
-
Operating profit
-3.4%
£8,988,000 £8,682,000
-
Profit before tax
-6%
£9,488,000 £8,918,000
-
Wages
+3.6%
£10,241,000 £10,606,000
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