SHEPHERD DISTRIBUTION SERVICES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-04-30 (in 11mo)
Last filed for 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-29 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£50K
0% vs 2024
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-07-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- SHEPHERD DISTRIBUTION SERVICES LIMITED 2010-08-27 → present
- FIRMSHARE LIMITED 2010-05-20 → 2010-08-27
Cash
7-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
7-year trend · latest reflected 2025-07-31
| Metric | Trend | 2019-07-31 | 2020-07-31 | 2021-07-31 | 2022-07-31 | 2023-07-31 | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Net profit | — | — | £120,000 | £1,879,000 | £263,050 | £235,320 | £0 | |
| Cash | £0 | £0 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | £50,219 | £50,219 | £1,067,004 | £50,219 | £50,219 | |
| Net assets | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Equity | — | — | £50,219 | £50,219 | £390,819 | £50,219 | £50,219 | |
| Average employees | — | — | 2 | 2 | — | 2 | — | |
| Wages | — | — | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
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
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- UHY Hacker Young
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”
Group structure
- SHEPHERD DISTRIBUTION SERVICES LIMITED · parent
- Yarborough Limited 100%
Significant events
- “secured several new business wins, on top of this we gained extra work from some of our existing customers.”
- “Installation of solar panels at our 5-acre site, and these are now generating 30% savings”
- “A new traffic planning system called Optimize was rolled out. Optimize uses artificial intelligence (Al based optimisation algorithms to generate routing efficiencies and savings, which has improved gross margin.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABEL, Laurence Donal | Director | 2010-05-20 | Jan 1970 | British |
| DAVIS, Ian Alexander | Director | 2010-05-20 | Nov 1969 | British |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEPHENS, Graham Robertson | Director | 2010-05-20 | 2010-05-20 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shepherd Distribution Trustee Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2022-07-28 | Active |
| Mr Laurence Donal Abel | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2022-07-28 |
| Mr Ian Alexander Davis | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2022-07-28 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 58 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-08-11 MA Memorandum articles
- 2022-08-11 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-05-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-05-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-05-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-02-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-02-02 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-08-11 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-08-11 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-08-11 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2022-08-09 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-08-09 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-08-09 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-05-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-19 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-05-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-11-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-05-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
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 2025-07-31 vs 2024-07-31