WRITTLE HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-09-30 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-23 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-09
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£9M
-32.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£21M
-11.9% vs 2024
Employees
688
+2.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£6M
+16.9% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- WRITTLE HOLDINGS LIMITED 2007-11-30 → present
- CHERRYBECK LIMITED 2004-09-09 → 2007-11-30
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £87,955,000 | £97,533,000 | |
| Operating profit | £5,405,000 | £6,280,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £5,461,000 | £6,382,000 | |
| Net profit | £3,019,000 | £3,878,000 | |
| Cash | £13,714,000 | £9,294,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £25,568,000 | £23,157,000 | |
| Net assets | £24,357,000 | £21,452,000 | |
| Equity | £24,357,000 | £21,452,000 | |
| Average employees | 674 | 688 | |
| Wages | £31,469,000 | £33,202,000 |
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 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 6.1% | 6.4% | |
| Net margin | 3.4% | 4.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 21.1% | 27.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 47.6% | 51.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.73x | 1.64x | |
| Interest cover | 235.00x | 114.18x |
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
- Moore Kingston Smith LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The group financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, reflecting the directors' view that the group will be able to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of the signing of these group financial statements. The directors have prepared monthly cash flow forecasts through until 31 December 2026. With net cash at 31 December 2025 of £8.99m no significant additional risks to the going concern position of the group were identified under any reasonable downturn scenarios.”
Group structure
- WRITTLE HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
- Arken POP International Limited 100%
- Arken POP International B.V. 100%
- Branded Agency Group Limited 97.23%
- Branded Asia Limited 100%
- Branded Limited 100%
- Branded Inc 100%
- Epoch Design Limited 86.16%
- FERO Holdings Limited 66.59%
- FERO Retail Marketing Limited 100%
- Maglabs Limited 100%
- Magnet Harlequin Limited 100%
- Seymour-Powell Limited 88.08%
- Technik Limited 100%
- The Team Brand Communication Consultants Limited 75.5%
- Williams Murray Hamm Limited 86.64%
- Writtle Limited 100%
- Writtle Property Limited 100%
- Loewy Limited 100%
- Identica Limited 100%
- Raymond Loewy Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Writtle is planning to use its excess funds to buy back shares for cancellation rather than using its Employee Share Ownership Trust (ESOT) to buy shares or offering them to new investors.”
- “The year has started well but we do not expect our Instore business group to repeat its record performance of the last two years as there are no major store roll-outs planned this year for Arken clients.”
- “The current war in the Middle East will no doubt create further turmoil in the general business environment.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GILMORE, Matthew John | Secretary | 2012-04-16 | — | — |
| ESSEX, Robert Thomas Tickler | Director | 2004-10-14 | Oct 1960 | British |
| GILMORE, Matthew John | Director | 2017-01-01 | Apr 1974 | British |
| HARRIS, Graeme Richard | Director | 2011-09-16 | Jun 1966 | British |
| POWELL, David Hilary | Director | 2012-04-16 | Dec 1951 | British |
| RICHARDS, Jamie Trevor | Director | 2025-04-01 | May 1976 | British |
| SAYSELL, Richard Geoffrey | Director | 2023-01-01 | Oct 1969 | British |
| SCUTT, Tracy Ellen | Director | 2018-03-29 | Jul 1966 | British |
| SUTCLIFFE, Andrew Robert Nelson | Director | 2007-11-29 | May 1962 | British |
| WRIGHT, Alan John | Director | 2009-07-30 | Nov 1959 | British |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALEXANDER, Charles Stuart | Secretary | 2004-10-14 | 2008-07-08 |
| BRUFORD, Paul James | Secretary | 2008-07-08 | 2012-04-16 |
| C & M SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2004-09-09 | 2004-10-14 |
| ALEXANDER, Charles Stuart | Director | 2004-10-14 | 2014-03-31 |
| BELL, Patrick Charles | Director | 2007-11-29 | 2009-07-31 |
| BIGLAND, Theron Ashley Earl | Director | 2025-04-01 | 2026-05-05 |
| BOOKER, Gary Anthony | Director | 2008-07-08 | 2016-06-21 |
| BRUFORD, Paul James | Director | 2008-07-08 | 2013-03-13 |
| CAHN, Christopher Charles | Director | 2005-05-18 | 2013-03-13 |
| LUCAS, Anthony William | Director | 2012-04-16 | 2024-04-12 |
| MACKENZIE, Kevin Alexander | Director | 2014-03-26 | 2019-12-31 |
| SAYSELL, Richard Geoffrey | Director | 2008-02-06 | 2016-06-21 |
| SEYMOUR, Richard William | Director | 2012-04-16 | 2017-05-16 |
| STERN, Nigel Duncan | Director | 2011-09-16 | 2019-12-31 |
| WILLIAMS, Richard Charles John | Director | 2012-04-16 | 2018-12-31 |
| C & M REGISTRARS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2004-09-09 | 2004-10-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 180 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-08-04 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-05-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-09-09 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-08-04 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2025-08-04 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2025-08-04 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2025-08-04 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-06-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-06-18 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-04-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-30 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-09-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-07-01 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-04-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-13 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2023-11-29 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2023-10-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 10
- Capital events
- 6
- 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 2025-12-31 vs 2024-12-31
-
Turnover
+10.9%
£87,955,000 £97,533,000
-
Cash
-32.2%
£13,714,000 £9,294,000
-
Net assets
-11.9%
£24,357,000 £21,452,000
-
Employees
+2.1%
674 688
-
Operating profit
+16.2%
£5,405,000 £6,280,000
-
Profit before tax
+16.9%
£5,461,000 £6,382,000
-
Wages
+5.5%
£31,469,000 £33,202,000
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