MARSTON (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-02-28 (in 9mo)
Last filed for 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-30 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-16
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£6M
-36.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£349M
+7.9% vs 2024
Employees
1,170
-8.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£24M
-27.5% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- MARSTON (HOLDINGS) LIMITED 2013-03-27 → present
- THE BRIDGMAN GROUP LIMITED 2003-06-25 → 2013-03-27
- DRAKES GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED 2001-10-16 → 2003-06-25
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-05-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-05-31 | 2025-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £365,655,000 | £378,028,000 | |
| Operating profit | £34,723,000 | £25,396,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £33,085,000 | £23,980,000 | |
| Net profit | £34,008,000 | £24,688,000 | |
| Cash | £9,619,000 | £6,129,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | £323,357,000 | £349,004,000 | |
| Equity | £323,357,000 | £349,004,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,281 | 1,170 | |
| Wages | £158,967,000 | £160,012,000 |
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 | 2024-05-31 | 2025-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 9.5% | 6.7% | |
| Net margin | 9.3% | 6.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 26.1% | 29.8% | |
| Current ratio | 2.59x | 2.36x | |
| Interest cover | 15.55x | 13.13x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In determining the appropriate basis of preparation for these financial statements, the Board has assessed the Group's and Company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements. This assessment included base forecasts, which were subsequently sensitised to plausible downside scenarios, and then compared with available cash and revised covenant requirements held at ultimate parent level as applicable. The directors have assessed this and remain confident that there is adequate headroom against any plausible downside scenario identified in our modelling to meet the requirements of our going concern assessment. The base level forecast, reviewed and approved by the Board, incorporates a range of assumptions applicable to the individual operating business units. The ability to accurately forecast future business performance varies across business units, contractually based revenues, which cover our largest business units, are only typically impacted by contractual changes usually known at least up to 12 months in advance. Other business units, principally Enforcement, Commercial debt and Traffic technology, have more variability due to the impact of volumetric changes such as caseload volumes and these have been modelled with due consideration. The Group's base level forecasts have a steady increase in case volumes in the second half of the current financial year forming part of the Group's recovery from the consumer redress programme.”
Group structure
- MARSTON (HOLDINGS) LIMITED · parent
- Smartworks Metering Limited 100%
- Collectica Limited 100%
- Engage Services (ESL) Limited 100%
- Marston Group Limited 100%
- Moreton Smith Receivables Limited 100%
- Rossendales Limited 100%
- Scott & Co (Scotland) LLP 100%
- Swift Credit Services Limited 100%
- NSL Limited 100%
- Project Centre Limited 100%
- Task Enforcement Limited 100%
- Marston Legal Services Limited 100%
- Logic Valley Technologies Pvt Limited 100%
- Parktrade Europe AB 79%
- Videalert Limited 100%
- Field Services Investments Limited 100%
- Vortex IOT Limited 100%
- Grosvenor Services Group Limited 100%
- Marston Technologies Limited 100%
- Marston Technology Investments Limited 100%
- Iotics Limited
- Grosvenor Legal Services Limited
- Videalert Development Limited 100%
- Gasworks UK Limited 100%
- Future Energy Metering Limited 100%
- Epass24 AB 100%
- ParkiaPay AB 100%
- Engage EV Limited 100%
Significant events
- “There were no other material events subsequent to 31 May 2025 and up until the authorisation of the financial statements for issue, that have not been disclosed elsewhere in the financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 30 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2013-11-08 | — | — |
| ASTLEY BIRTWISTLE, Edward | Director | 2024-07-02 | Jun 1986 | British |
| COWAN, Emma | Director | 2025-02-03 | May 1983 | British |
| DEL MAR, Sam | Director | 2024-07-02 | Apr 1974 | British |
| FLEMING, Martin | Director | 2025-02-03 | Mar 1968 | Irish |
| HANSHAW, Keith | Director | 2024-01-31 | Apr 1968 | British |
| JOHNSON, Martin | Director | 2023-08-02 | May 1973 | British |
| LAMBERT, Marcus Edward | Director | 2024-07-02 | Dec 1972 | British |
| MCCORMACK, Amanda Louise | Director | 2022-04-06 | Dec 1986 | British |
| MOORE, Fraser | Director | 2025-02-03 | Jan 1977 | British |
Show 30 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWNJOHN, Ian | Secretary | 2001-10-16 | 2002-05-23 |
| A G SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2002-05-31 | 2009-10-31 |
| BROADWAY SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2002-05-23 | 2002-05-23 |
| OAKWOOD CORPORATE SECRETARY LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2009-11-01 | 2013-11-08 |
| ANDERSON, Richard John | Director | 2020-03-23 | 2022-04-06 |
| BAILEY, Richard Andrew | Director | 2014-09-22 | 2017-03-14 |
| CADDY, Paul Anthony | Director | 2012-05-31 | 2012-11-30 |
| CALLAGHAN, Stephen James | Director | 2022-05-31 | 2023-08-04 |
| CHRISTIE, Archie Jack | Director | 2001-10-16 | 2005-03-24 |
| CORCORAN, Michael John | Director | 2022-04-06 | 2023-09-15 |
| CRICHTON, John Leslie | Director | 2012-05-31 | 2017-05-30 |
| DOWNING, Adam Holt | Director | 2016-04-20 | 2017-01-28 |
| GAY, Andrew | Director | 2002-05-31 | 2008-09-15 |
| HUGHES, Gareth | Director | 2002-05-31 | 2020-03-23 |
| LAWRENCE, Kenneth William | Director | 2003-10-31 | 2006-04-27 |
| LIPPIATT, Ann | Director | 2014-09-22 | 2018-04-18 |
| MANNING, Peter David | Director | 2012-05-31 | 2016-06-29 |
| MARSTON, John Paul | Director | 2008-04-04 | 2008-04-04 |
| MILLERICK, Francis John | Director | 2001-10-16 | 2012-05-31 |
| NEWMAN, Stephen Bryan | Director | 2012-05-31 | 2019-01-30 |
| ROBINSON, Matthew James | Director | 2016-12-16 | 2017-10-11 |
| SHEARER, Richard John | Director | 2017-05-30 | 2020-06-05 |
| SIMCOX, Daren Andrew | Director | 2001-10-16 | 2012-05-31 |
| SINCLAIR, David James | Director | 2024-07-02 | 2025-12-24 |
| SMALLBONE, Timothy | Director | 2002-05-31 | 2003-06-02 |
| THOMPSON, James | Director | 2024-07-02 | 2025-04-15 |
| VAN OERLE, Tim | Director | 2023-09-15 | 2024-01-31 |
| WATSON, Michael Stuart | Director | 2020-06-05 | 2022-04-06 |
| WATT, George | Director | 2014-09-24 | 2017-01-31 |
| WILCOCKSON, Craig Lee | Director | 2024-07-02 | 2024-10-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magenta Bidco Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-07-29 | Active |
| Marston Resources Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-06-12 | Ceased 2016-07-29 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 266 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-05-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-05-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-05-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-04-30 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2026-04-30 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-02-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-10-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-10 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-06-09 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-03-24 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-02-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 12
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-05-31 vs 2024-05-31
-
Turnover
+3.4%
£365,655,000 £378,028,000
-
Cash
-36.3%
£9,619,000 £6,129,000
-
Net assets
+7.9%
£323,357,000 £349,004,000
-
Employees
-8.7%
1,281 1,170
-
Operating profit
-26.9%
£34,723,000 £25,396,000
-
Profit before tax
-27.5%
£33,085,000 £23,980,000
-
Wages
+0.7%
£158,967,000 £160,012,000
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