POUNDSTRETCHER LEICESTER LIMITED

1. POUNDSTRETCHER LEICESTER LIMITED 2024-10-21 → present
2. CROWN CREST (LEICESTER) LIMITED 2021-12-08 → 2024-10-21
3. CROWN CREST (LEICESTER) PLC 2002-03-15 → 2021-12-08

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

Kilsby & Williams LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group's and parent company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. POUNDSTRETCHER LEICESTER LIMITED · parent
   1. Poundstretcher Limited 100% · UK
   2. PS Imports Limited 100% · UK

Significant events

• “On 18 April 2024, the Company and its subsidiaries were acquired by the Fortress Investment Group.”
• “On the same date, Andy Atkinson, former commercial director at WM Morrison, was appointed as the company's Chief Executive. Trevor Strain, former chief financial officer at WM Morrison, also joined the board as Chairman.”
• “On 17 May 2024, the group secured an Asset Based Lending facility with Wells Fargo Capital Finance Limited. It is a revolving facility of up to £30m with an Inventory borrowing base and has a maturity of 5 years.”

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

Filings

4

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  -14%

  £246,172,908 → £211,681,464

• Cash

  +44.4%

  £9,731,453 → £14,054,772

• Net assets

  -27.8%

  £73,082,121 → £52,795,064

• Employees

  -16.5%

  4,109 → 3,432

• Operating profit

  -201.6%

  £9,930,762 → -£10,086,658

• Profit before tax

  -309.2%

  £9,632,858 → -£20,154,953

• Wages

  -5.5%

  £47,131,970 → £44,524,573

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