PROCOOK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-30
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-17 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2026-01-03
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
+37.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£17M
+24.3% vs 2024
Employees
609
-2.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£4M
+57% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- PROCOOK LIMITED 2008-07-25 → present
- ENSCO 688 LIMITED 2008-07-07 → 2008-07-25
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 | £62,585,000 | £69,493,000 | |
| Operating profit | £3,561,000 | £5,328,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,323,000 | £3,647,000 | |
| Net profit | £1,868,000 | £3,052,000 | |
| Cash | £2,005,000 | £2,762,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £33,655,000 | £37,460,000 | |
| Net assets | £13,625,000 | £16,942,000 | |
| Equity | £13,625,000 | £16,942,000 | |
| Average employees | 625 | 609 | |
| Wages | £13,079,000 | £14,634,000 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 5.7% | 7.7% | |
| Net margin | 3.0% | 4.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 10.6% | 14.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 72.6% | 70.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.32x | 1.30x | |
| Interest cover | 2.63x | 3.78x |
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 101 Reduced Disclosure Framework
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Forvis Mazars LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors have undertaken a comprehensive review and assessment of going concern. Having reviewed current performance, financial projections under a variety of scenarios related to the Company's principal risks and uncertainties, total facilities and liquidity (including the reduced liquidity risk resulting from the revised leverage covenant attached to the RCF), and debt servicing requirements, the Directors expect the Company to have adequate resources to continue in operational existence and meet its liabilities as they fall due over the period of at least 12 months from the date of approving these financial statements.”
Group structure
- PROCOOK LIMITED · parent
- ProCook (Kitchens) Limited 100%
- ProCook (Steamer Trading) Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Total revenue increased to £69.5m, +11.0% YoY”
- “Underlying PBT of £3.9m (FY24: £2.5m) reflects investment in additional new stores opened in the year and a -£0.4m adverse non-cash impact YoY of recent FX volatility.”
- “Strong cash and working capital management delivered a net cash position of £1.0m at year end (FY24: net debt of £0.7m) despite investing for growth, including £4.1m of capital expenditure in the year, primarily in new stores.”
- “Gross margins were slightly ahead year on year at 65.8% (FY24: 65.7%) as we absorbed heightened shipping costs as a result of the Middle East conflicts and delivered an encouraging Q4 rate of 66.8% (Q4 FY24: 64.5%).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAPPENDEN, Lee John | Director | 2023-10-10 | May 1970 | British,Canadian |
| WALDEN, Daniel | Director | 2021-08-19 | Oct 1982 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HBJGW SECRETARIAL SUPPORT LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2008-07-07 | 2008-07-18 |
| BANTING, Gordon Charles | Director | 2011-10-19 | 2011-10-21 |
| O'NEILL, Daniel Patrick | Director | 2008-07-25 | 2023-10-10 |
| O'NEILL, Sarah Jane | Director | 2013-01-02 | 2021-08-12 |
| SANDERS, Stephen John | Director | 2021-07-01 | 2023-03-31 |
| TAYLOR, Julia Katherine | Director | 2008-07-18 | 2008-08-05 |
| HBJGW INCORPORATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2008-07-07 | 2008-07-18 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Procook Group Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-10-26 | Active |
| Michael O'Neill | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-10-26 |
| Mrs Sarah Jane O'Neill | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-10-26 |
| Mr Daniel Patrick O'Neill | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-10-26 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 87 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-16 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-07-16 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-01-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-11 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-10-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-04-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-03-10 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-01-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-04-22 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-04-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-04-06 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-04-06 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-04-06 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control |
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
+11%
£62,585,000 £69,493,000
-
Cash
+37.8%
£2,005,000 £2,762,000
-
Net assets
+24.3%
£13,625,000 £16,942,000
-
Employees
-2.6%
625 609
-
Operating profit
+49.6%
£3,561,000 £5,328,000
-
Profit before tax
+57%
£2,323,000 £3,647,000
-
Wages
+11.9%
£13,079,000 £14,634,000
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