LAVENDON GROUP LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-19 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-05
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£120K
-62.3% vs 2023
Net assets
£320M
+47.5% vs 2023
Employees
49
-7.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£117M
+96% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- LAVENDON GROUP LIMITED 2017-05-10 → present
- LAVENDON GROUP PLC 1996-08-23 → 2017-05-10
- RAPID ACCESS (UK) LIMITED 1992-12-02 → 1996-08-23
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | £462,000 | £46,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £59,937,000 | £117,485,000 | |
| Net profit | £59,171,000 | £117,920,000 | |
| Cash | £318,000 | £120,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £404,345,000 | £391,933,000 | |
| Net assets | £216,727,000 | £319,647,000 | |
| Equity | £216,727,000 | £319,647,000 | |
| Average employees | 53 | 49 | |
| Wages | £3,164,000 | £3,037,000 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | 0.1% | 0.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 48.6% | 18.8% | |
| Current ratio | 2.29x | 23.12x | |
| Interest cover | 0.16x | 0.02x |
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
- Constantin
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company and the Group of which it is part have adequate resources to continue in existence as an investment holding company for the foreseeable future. Thus, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.”
Group structure
- LAVENDON GROUP LIMITED · parent
- Zooom Holdings (UK) Limited 100%
- Lavendon Access Services (International) Limited 100%
- Nationwide Platforms Limited 100%
- Rapid Access Holding WLL 100%
- Rapid Access LLC 49%
- Rapid Access (Saudi Arabia) Limited 100%
- Rapid Access (Oman) LLC 70%
- Rapid Access Trading Bahrain W.L.L 49%
- Rapid Access Middle East LLC 100%
Significant events
- “A legal entity rationalisation project commenced in 2023 to simplify the UK corporate ownership structure and reduce the number of UK subsidiary companies. This process was concluded in 2024 and the following subsidiary companies were dissolved: Lavendon Holdings Limited, Access Solutions (UK) Limited, Blue Sky Topco Limited, BlueSky Solutions Limited, UK Platforms Limited, Rapid Access BV.”
- “On 19 December 2024 an intercompany debt reduction exercise was completed to settle longstanding intercompany balances between UK Group companies. Dividend distributions were declared by Zooom Holdings (UK) Limited and Lavendon Access Services (International) Limited which was recorded as inter-company debt owed to Lavendon Group Limited. This debt was offset with existing intercompany balances owed by Lavendon Group to those companies by a Debt Assignment. Other intercompany balances between UK companies were also offset via a Debt of Set off arrangement.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 24 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOURMAUD, Patrick | Director | 2017-03-16 | Dec 1969 | French |
| DEPREZ, Gerard | Director | 2017-03-16 | May 1954 | French |
| HENON, Stephane | Director | 2017-03-16 | Nov 1968 | French |
| MOUMINOUX, Olivier Pierre, François, Jacques | Director | 2025-07-31 | Jan 1972 | French |
| THOMAS, Christopher | Director | 2020-10-29 | Dec 1975 | British |
Show 24 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLE, Richard Andrew | Secretary | 2016-04-07 | 2017-07-28 |
| MERRELL, Alan Stuart | Secretary | 1998-05-26 | 2016-04-07 |
| SARRAGOZI, Jerome | Secretary | 2017-07-28 | 2019-04-30 |
| SHIPMAN, David Cyril | Secretary | — | 1998-05-26 |
| APPLETON, Kevin Andrew | Director | 2002-01-01 | 2011-06-30 |
| ASTRAND, Jan Gunnar | Director | 2010-12-20 | 2014-02-26 |
| COGHLAN, John Bernard | Director | 2014-03-01 | 2017-03-16 |
| GESTETNER, Geoffrey Sigmund | Director | 2001-01-22 | 2001-06-08 |
| GORDON, John Edwin | Director | 1996-09-05 | 2009-04-23 |
| HEYWOOD, John Axson | Director | 1996-09-05 | 2006-04-28 |
| HOLLYWOOD, David John | Director | 2006-04-28 | 2010-09-29 |
| KENNY, Thomas Donald | Director | 2011-10-01 | 2020-10-30 |
| MASKELL, Philip John | Director | 1992-12-12 | 1995-07-10 |
| MERRELL, Alan Stuart | Director | 1998-05-26 | 2017-06-30 |
| MUNTON, Richard James | Director | 1995-07-10 | 1997-02-20 |
| MURRAY, Thomas Anthony | Director | 2017-07-01 | 2020-10-29 |
| PRICE, David Lawrence | Director | — | 2005-09-24 |
| RANKIN, Paul John | Director | 2020-10-30 | 2025-07-31 |
| ROSS, Timothy Stuart | Director | 2005-10-01 | 2011-04-20 |
| SHIPMAN, David Cyril | Director | — | 2001-04-26 |
| SMITH, Gary Derek | Director | — | 1994-09-30 |
| STANDEN, John Francis | Director | 2005-05-01 | 2017-03-16 |
| WOOD, Andrew Richard | Director | 2010-12-20 | 2017-03-16 |
| WYATT, John Henry Aldworth | Director | 2014-03-01 | 2017-03-16 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Gerard Deprez | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2017-02-14 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 451 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-08-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-12-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-12-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-11-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-11-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-10-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-10-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-09-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-12-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
—
Not reported
-
Cash
-62.3%
£318,000 £120,000
-
Net assets
+47.5%
£216,727,000 £319,647,000
-
Employees
-7.5%
53 49
-
Operating profit
-90%
£462,000 £46,000
-
Profit before tax
+96%
£59,937,000 £117,485,000
-
Wages
-4%
£3,164,000 £3,037,000
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