JOSEPH HOLT GROUP LIMITED

1. JOSEPH HOLT GROUP LIMITED 2003-07-25 → present
2. JOSEPH HOLT GROUP PLC 2000-03-30 → 2003-07-25
3. INHOCO 1849 PLC 2000-02-25 → 2000-03-30
4. INHOCO 1078 LIMITED 2000-01-19 → 2000-02-25

Latest accounts filed cover 2024-12-31; financial figures currently reflect up to 2024-12-29.

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

RSM UK Audit LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After reviewing the group's forecasts and projections, under a range of different scenarios of varying severity, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for a period of at least twelve months from the date of approval of the financial statements. The directors therefore continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the group and parent company financial statements.”

Group structure

1. JOSEPH HOLT GROUP LIMITED · parent
   1. Joseph Holt Limited 100% · UK · Trading
   2. Joseph Holt Share Scheme Trustees Limited 100% · UK · Dormant
   3. Hoi Polloi Pub Co Limited 100% · UK · Dormant
   4. The Cove (Stoney Stanton) Limited 100% · UK · Dormant
   5. Touchwood Restaurants Limited 100% · UK · Dormant

Significant events

• “2024 marked 175 years in business for Joseph Holt. This milestone was celebrated with a number of events, special commemorative beers and glasses, new staff uniforms, memorabilia and a major Charity Appeal. This was the company's most ambitious appeal to date with a target to raise £500,000 for the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute.”
• “During 2024, our Chief Executive was asked to be on a panel event hosted by the new Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Beer Club, the biggest MP Group in Parliament, to speak about the importance of the community pub.”
• “The group's banking facilities were successfully renewed in December 2024 for 5 years with the group's current banking partner, the Royal Bank of Scotland, The group's £22m revolving credit facility was reduced to its pre-pandemic level of £17m, with a further £3m overdraft facility. Total borrowings at the year-end were £5.0m with committed facilities headroom of £15.0m.”
• “2024 Spin Doctor Gold The International Brewing Awards”
• “2024 Black Gold The International Brewing Awards”
• “2024 Black Gold SIBA North West”
• “2024 Mild Gold SIBA National”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

6

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +3.3%

  £73,493,000 → £75,947,000

• Cash

  -80.3%

  £1,361,000 → £268,000

• Net assets

  +5.1%

  £82,625,000 → £86,871,000

• Employees

  -20.2%

  609 → 486

• Operating profit

  +6.5%

  £4,304,000 → £4,583,000

• Profit before tax

  +13.9%

  £4,345,000 → £4,947,000

• Wages

  -12.6%

  £12,854,000 → £11,240,000

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

Heads up: a more recent set of accounts has been filed but isn't yet reflected here — the figures above are older than the company's latest filing.