BAKER FURNITURE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-12 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-29
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£461K
-68.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£6M
-2.7% vs 2024
Employees
40
-7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£223K
-154.9% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- BAKER FURNITURE LIMITED 2013-01-14 → present
- BAKERBEDFORD LTD 2008-12-18 → 2013-01-14
- BAKER FURNITURE LIMITED 1994-09-21 → 2008-12-18
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £18,017,403 | £14,370,143 | |
| Operating profit | £566,331 | -£158,383 | |
| Profit before tax | £406,013 | -£222,993 | |
| Net profit | £302,969 | -£173,027 | |
| Cash | £1,449,041 | £461,136 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,608,659 | £6,432,939 | |
| Net assets | £6,294,872 | £6,121,845 | |
| Equity | £6,294,872 | £6,121,845 | |
| Average employees | 43 | 40 | |
| Wages | £1,622,398 | £1,497,464 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.1% | -1.1% | |
| Net margin | 1.7% | -1.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 8.6% | -2.5% | |
| Current ratio | 2.48x | 6.23x | |
| Interest cover | 3.53x | -2.45x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have prepared the financial statements on the going concern basis as they do not intend to liquidate the company or to cease its operations, and as they have concluded that the company's financial position means that this is realistic. They have also concluded that there are no material uncertainties that could have cast significant doubt over its ability to continue as a going concern for at least a year from the date of approval of the financial statements ("the going concern period").”
Significant events
- “Turnover, however, was severely affected by the abrupt cessation of trade with the Company's largest customer.”
- “Since the year end the company has successfully introduced several ranges into a number of other sizable furniture retailers.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOAKELL, Peter | Secretary | 1995-04-24 | — | British |
| BARKER, Richard Joseph | Director | 1994-09-21 | Sep 1939 | British |
| CALLAGHAN, Mark James | Director | 2014-09-09 | Oct 1979 | British |
| SOAKELL, Peter | Director | 2003-05-01 | Aug 1964 | British |
| SQUIRES, Sophia | Director | 2019-08-22 | Jun 1982 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COTTS, Graham Robert | Secretary | 1994-09-21 | 1995-04-24 |
| SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1994-09-21 | 1994-09-21 |
| BEDFORD, Mark Richard | Director | 2008-11-03 | 2012-11-30 |
| COX, Julian Frederick | Director | 2013-04-08 | 2015-03-06 |
| HAWKINS, Robert Keith | Director | 2005-04-01 | 2008-10-24 |
| PARSONS, Stephen David | Director | 2003-05-01 | 2006-07-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Richard Joseph Barker | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
| Mr James Thompson Barker | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 104 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-07 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-02-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-03-09 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2022-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-11-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-01-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-09-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-12-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-09-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-09-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2018-11-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2018-09-25 | 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 2025-03-30 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
-20.2%
£18,017,403 £14,370,143
-
Cash
-68.2%
£1,449,041 £461,136
-
Net assets
-2.7%
£6,294,872 £6,121,845
-
Employees
-7%
43 40
-
Operating profit
-128%
£566,331 -£158,383
-
Profit before tax
-154.9%
£406,013 -£222,993
-
Wages
-7.7%
£1,622,398 £1,497,464
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