EI GROUP LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-09-29
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-14 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-30
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
-33.3% vs 2023
Net assets
£918M
+0.5% vs 2023
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£50M
-733.3% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 4 times since incorporation
- EI GROUP LIMITED 2020-03-03 → present
- EI GROUP PLC 2017-02-09 → 2020-03-03
- ENTERPRISE INNS PLC 1991-07-22 → 2017-02-09
- MIDCOUNTIES INNS LIMITED 1991-03-21 → 1991-07-22
- LEGISLATOR 1115 LIMITED 1990-11-27 → 1991-03-21
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-09-29
| Metric | Trend | 2023-09-24 | 2024-09-29 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £322,000,000 | £311,000,000 | |
| Operating profit | £91,000,000 | £76,000,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£6,000,000 | -£50,000,000 | |
| Net profit | £37,000,000 | -£36,000,000 | |
| Cash | £3,000,000 | £2,000,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,461,000,000 | £2,423,000,000 | |
| Net assets | £913,000,000 | £918,000,000 | |
| Equity | £913,000,000 | £918,000,000 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 | |
| Wages | — | — |
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 | 2023-09-24 | 2024-09-29 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 28.3% | 24.4% | |
| Net margin | 11.5% | -11.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 3.7% | 3.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 67.7% | 67.2% | |
| Current ratio | 2.27x | 2.23x | |
| Interest cover | 0.75x | 0.62x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which the Directors consider to be appropriate for the following reasons. The principal activity of the Company is the ownership of an estate of public houses in the United Kingdom, some of which are leased to other companies within the group headed by Stonegate Pub Company Limited ("the Stonegate Group"). The Company also supplies beer and other drink products and provides all other aspects of estate management to another entity within the Stonegate Group. The company's cash flows are therefore dependent on the continuation, volume and pricing of those operations.”
Group structure
- EI GROUP LIMITED · parent
- Enterprise Managed Investments Limited 100%
- Enterprise Inns Holding Company Limited 100%
- Unique Pubs Limited 100%
- Ei Publican Services Limited 100%
- Century Inns Limited 100%
- Gibbs Mew Limited 100%
- Enterprise Inns Limited 100%
- Unique Pub Properties Limited 100%
- Bermondsey Pub Company Limited 100%
- Bestplace (Beta) Limited 75%
- Bestplace Limited 51%
- Dirty Liquor Limited 100%
- Frontier Pubs Limited 75%
- Hush Heath Inns Limited 51%
- Mash Inns Limited 51%
- Urban Pubs & Bars 2 Limited 51%
- Old Spot Pub Company Limited 100%
- Six Cheers Limited 51%
- The Craft Union Pub Company Limited 100%
- Vixen Pub Company Limited 100%
- The Unique Pub Finance Company PLC 100%
- Imagegold Limited 100%
- Unique Pub Investments Limited 100%
- Voyager Pub Group Holdings Limited 100%
- Voyager Pub Group Limited 100%
- Bede Holding Company Limited 100%
- Unique Pub Properties Alpha Limited 100%
- Unique Pub Properties Beta Limited 100%
- Unique Pub Properties Gamma Limited 100%
- Unique Pub Properties Theta Limited 100%
- West Midlands Taverns (Holdings) Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 26 January 2024, the Company sold £77 million of its free of tie estate, recognised within Investment Property, to a fellow subsidiary, Stonegate Entity 3 Limited in return for an intercompany loan.”
- “On 14 August 2024 the Group has completed a series of further refinancing transactions which represent a significant overhaul of the Group's capital structure, backed by a material contribution from its sponsor, TDR Capital.”
- “During the prior period, on 26 November 2021, the Company's 45 million of treasury shares with a nominal value of £1 million were cancelled.”
- “On 23 January 2023 the Company issued 50,538,214,520 bonus shares from its capital reserves. The following day it carried out a capital reduction to realise its share premium account, capital redemption reserve and the bonus share capital it had issued the previous day.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 31 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCDOWALL, David | Director | 2023-02-24 | Sep 1978 | British |
| ROSS, David Andrew | Director | 2020-03-03 | Apr 1973 | British |
| WILKINSON, Daniel | Director | 2026-02-19 | Dec 1979 | British |
Show 31 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEORGE, David Colbron | Secretary | — | 2009-10-01 |
| POOLE, James Andrew | Secretary | 2009-10-01 | 2013-02-01 |
| TOGHER, Loretta Anne | Secretary | 2013-02-01 | 2020-05-29 |
| BAGULEY, Peter Jeffrey | Director | 2013-01-31 | 2020-03-03 |
| BEDNALL, Jane | Director | 2018-07-02 | 2020-03-03 |
| CASSONI, Maria Luisa | Director | 2015-04-01 | 2020-03-03 |
| CLARKE, David | Director | — | 1993-07-07 |
| COTTRELL, Michael Noel Francis | Director | — | 1996-10-29 |
| DALE, Manjit | Director | 2020-03-03 | 2022-08-08 |
| DONALD, Sidney Milne | Director | — | 1995-10-24 |
| FOWLE, Adam Peter | Director | 2014-02-06 | 2020-03-03 |
| GARNER, Michael Frederick | Director | 1995-09-29 | 2005-01-20 |
| GEORGE, David Colbron | Director | — | 2011-01-20 |
| HARDING, David Alan | Director | 2003-11-06 | 2013-01-31 |
| HARRISON, Gordon William | Director | 1994-10-20 | 2006-09-30 |
| KEMP, Charles Richard Foster | Director | — | 1995-04-20 |
| LONGBOTTOM, Simon David | Director | 2020-03-03 | 2023-02-24 |
| MAGNUS, Brian Jonathan | Director | 2020-03-03 | 2022-08-08 |
| MALONEY, David Ossian | Director | 2008-07-10 | 2018-07-05 |
| MARDON, John Gale | Director | — | 1995-10-24 |
| MILLAR, Keith Malcolm Hedley | Director | 1995-09-29 | 2002-01-24 |
| MOSS, Nigel Patrick Stringer | Director | — | 1994-08-31 |
| MURRAY, Susan Elizabeth | Director | 2004-11-03 | 2014-02-06 |
| PAYNE, Ian Timothy | Director | 2020-03-03 | 2024-01-26 |
| PITT, Christopher James | Director | — | 1997-01-21 |
| REID, Hubert Valentine | Director | 1997-01-21 | 2012-03-31 |
| SMITH, Neil Reynolds | Director | 2011-01-20 | 2020-03-03 |
| STEWART, Alexander Jonathan | Director | 2001-05-29 | 2011-01-20 |
| TOWNSEND, William Simon | Director | 2000-10-01 | 2020-03-03 |
| TUPPEN, Graham Edward | Director | — | 2014-02-06 |
| WALKER, Robert Malcolm | Director | 2012-02-09 | 2020-03-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leased And Tenanted Pubs 1 Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2020-03-03 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 1425 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-03-19 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-08-20 CC04 Statement of companys objects
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-19 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-02-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-10 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2025-10-10 | AD04 | address | Move registers to registered office company with new address | |
| 2025-07-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-20 | CC04 | change-of-constitution | Statement of companys objects | |
| 2024-08-14 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-04-29 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part both with charge number | |
| 2024-04-29 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part both with charge number | |
| 2024-04-29 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part both with charge number | |
| 2024-04-29 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part both with charge number | |
| 2024-04-29 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part both with charge number | |
| 2024-04-29 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part both with charge number | |
| 2024-04-29 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part both with charge number | |
| 2024-02-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-07-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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 2024-09-29 vs 2023-09-24
-
Turnover
-3.4%
£322,000,000 £311,000,000
-
Cash
-33.3%
£3,000,000 £2,000,000
-
Net assets
+0.5%
£913,000,000 £918,000,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-16.5%
£91,000,000 £76,000,000
-
Profit before tax
-733.3%
-£6,000,000 -£50,000,000
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