ASHWORTH AND PARKER LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-30
Confirmation statement due
2027-04-15 (in 11mo)
Last made up 2026-04-01
Watchouts
Cash
£11M
-60.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£79M
-11.5% vs 2024
Employees
632
-24% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£10M
+75.8% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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 | £212,731,000 | £177,938,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£43,619,000 | -£11,022,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£43,280,000 | -£10,492,000 | |
| Net profit | -£42,470,000 | -£10,242,000 | |
| Cash | £28,198,000 | £11,160,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £90,248,000 | £79,760,000 | |
| Net assets | £88,983,000 | £78,741,000 | |
| Equity | £88,983,000 | £78,741,000 | |
| Average employees | 832 | 632 | |
| Wages | £22,378,000 | £19,522,000 |
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 | -20.5% | -6.2% | |
| Net margin | -20.0% | -5.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | -48.3% | -13.8% | |
| Current ratio | 3.04x | 2.71x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young 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 company's ability to continue as a going concern for the period to 31 August 2026.”
Group structure
- ASHWORTH AND PARKER LIMITED · parent
- END. Clothing Limited 100%
- END Netherlands B.V 100%
- END Italy S.R.L 100%
- END US Payment Inc. 100%
Significant events
- “During the financial period ended 30th March 2025, the Company, its subsidiaries and its immediate parent, Lobster Bidco Limited (together, 'the Group'), were acquired by Apollo Global Management. The transaction strengthened the balance sheet of the Group by significantly reducing the debt and interest burden.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DRACOU, Karen | Director | 2024-06-27 | Dec 1969 | British |
| SUHL, Sebastian | Director | 2025-06-11 | Dec 1967 | American |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARKER, John Douglas | Secretary | 2009-04-01 | 2025-05-12 |
| ASHWORTH, Rupert Christiaan | Director | 2009-04-01 | 2025-04-28 |
| DI MARCO, Patrizio | Director | 2021-10-21 | 2023-11-15 |
| DIXON, Gareth Mark | Director | 2014-04-14 | 2014-08-28 |
| EMERSON, Peter | Director | 2013-09-01 | 2021-04-01 |
| GUNDERSEN, William Parker | Director | 2022-08-05 | 2025-05-01 |
| HELFGOTT, Maurice Harold | Director | 2017-04-01 | 2021-04-01 |
| PARKER, John Douglas | Director | 2009-04-01 | 2025-05-12 |
| RIMER, Daniel Hillel | Director | 2019-01-10 | 2021-04-01 |
| ZOCCO, Giuseppe | Director | 2014-08-29 | 2019-01-10 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lobster Bidco Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-04-01 | Active |
| Mr Rupert Christiaan Ashworth | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2017-04-01 | Ceased 2021-04-01 |
| Mr John Douglas Parker | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2017-04-01 | Ceased 2021-04-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 98 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-16 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-21 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-07-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-09 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-02-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-28 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-09-28 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-04-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-10 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 3
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
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Turnover
-16.4%
£212,731,000 £177,938,000
-
Cash
-60.4%
£28,198,000 £11,160,000
-
Net assets
-11.5%
£88,983,000 £78,741,000
-
Employees
-24%
832 632
-
Operating profit
+74.7%
-£43,619,000 -£11,022,000
-
Profit before tax
+75.8%
-£43,280,000 -£10,492,000
-
Wages
-12.8%
£22,378,000 £19,522,000
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