CDS (SUPERSTORES INTERNATIONAL) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-02-02
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-04 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-21
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£41M
-46.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£313M
-0.7% vs 2024
Employees
12,639
+3.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£541K
+102.4% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- CDS (SUPERSTORES INTERNATIONAL) LIMITED 1992-12-17 → present
- BASISNAME LIMITED 1992-03-20 → 1992-12-17
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-02-02
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-28 | 2025-02-02 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,296,659,000 | £1,472,342,000 | |
| Operating profit | £20,113,000 | £50,190,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£22,848,000 | £541,000 | |
| Net profit | -£16,920,000 | -£1,731,000 | |
| Cash | £76,270,000 | £41,045,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,185,755,000 | £1,175,810,000 | |
| Net assets | £315,537,000 | £313,380,000 | |
| Equity | £315,537,000 | £313,380,000 | |
| Average employees | 12,238 | 12,639 | |
| Wages | £174,932,000 | £201,728,000 |
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 | 2024-01-28 | 2025-02-02 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.6% | 3.4% | |
| Net margin | -1.3% | -0.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 1.7% | 4.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 78.3% | 79.4% | |
| Current ratio | 1.55x | 1.23x | |
| Interest cover | 0.42x | 0.96x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on the above factors and after making suitable enquiries, the Director has a reasonable expectation that the Company and the Group have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, he continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual report and financial statements.”
Group structure
- CDS (SUPERSTORES INTERNATIONAL) LIMITED · parent
- The Range (Ireland) Limited 100%
- The Range (Jersey) Limited 100%
- Wilko.com Limited 100%
- R Stores Limited 100%
- Huish Development Limited 50%
- The Range Home & Leisure Limited 100%
- CDS Group Services Limited 100%
- Lucky Fox Limited 100%
- Hover Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 13 September 2023, the Group acquired the Wilko.com domain, a number of the core digital team and the intellectual property rights of Wilko out of administration.”
- “On the 13 November 2024 the Group completed the purchase for the rights to acquire 53 Homebase stores, alongside its website and IP.”
- “Post period-end, the Group has successfully completed the roll-out and conversion of 50 ex-Homebase stores that it acquired at the end of 2024.”
- “Post period-end 40 new stores have opened to date.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
1 active · 3 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAWSON, Christopher Frederick | Director | — | Dec 1951 | British |
Show 3 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAWSON, Sarah Jane | Secretary | — | 2017-03-23 |
| DAWSON, Sarah Jane | Director | 1999-06-01 | 2017-03-23 |
| SMYLY, John William | Director | 1999-06-01 | 2012-02-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Range Home & Gardens Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2021-10-28 | Active |
| Mr Christopher Frederick Dawson | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-05-11 | Active |
| Mrs Sarah Jane Dawson | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-05-11 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 213 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-09-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-04 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-09-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-03 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-05-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-05-01 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-05-01 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-11-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-09-19 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-09-18 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-08-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-04-03 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-03-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-09 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-10-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-03-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-03-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
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 2025-02-02 vs 2024-01-28
-
Turnover
+13.5%
£1,296,659,000 £1,472,342,000
-
Cash
-46.2%
£76,270,000 £41,045,000
-
Net assets
-0.7%
£315,537,000 £313,380,000
-
Employees
+3.3%
12,238 12,639
-
Operating profit
+149.5%
£20,113,000 £50,190,000
-
Profit before tax
+102.4%
-£22,848,000 £541,000
-
Wages
+15.3%
£174,932,000 £201,728,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers