UNDERDOG GROUP LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-06 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-05-23
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£9M
-7.3% vs 2023
Net assets
-£49M
-8.2% vs 2023
Employees
1,240
+5.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£2M
-212.9% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- UNDERDOG GROUP LIMITED 2013-12-20 → present
- CARNIVORE TOPCO LIMITED 2013-05-23 → 2013-12-20
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £89,782,000 | £100,385,000 | |
| Operating profit | £4,676,000 | £1,445,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,490,000 | -£1,682,000 | |
| Net profit | -£855,000 | -£3,237,000 | |
| Cash | £10,145,000 | £9,407,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,043,000 | £20,641,000 | |
| Net assets | -£44,966,000 | -£48,658,000 | |
| Equity | -£44,966,000 | -£48,658,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,173 | 1,240 | |
| Wages | £29,653,000 | £34,586,000 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 5.2% | 1.4% | |
| Net margin | -1.0% | -3.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 66.4% | 7.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 213.5% | 211.8% | |
| Current ratio | 0.48x | 0.68x | |
| Interest cover | 1.46x | 0.44x |
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
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Whilst being in a net liabilities and net current liabilities position of £48.66m and £7.38m respectively (2023: £44.97m and £16.89m) at the year end, the Group is highly cash-generative from operations and has prepared the FY24 financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- UNDERDOG GROUP LIMITED · parent
- Underdog Group (B) Limited 100%
- Underdog Group (C) Limited 100%
- Underdog Restaurants Limited 100%
- Hawksmoor Restaurant Group Inc. 100%
- Hawksmoor Management Inc. 100%
- Hawksmoor Chicago Inc. 100%
- Hawksmoor Wood Wharf Limited 100%
- Hawksmoor Liverpool Limited 100%
- Hawksmoor Dublin Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Installed Air to Water technology in Manchester to capture heat from the kitchens and use it to heat the water”
- “Installed voltage optimisation in our Seven Dials restaurant to reduce the voltage coming into the building”
- “Cold cathode lighting replaced with LED's, full estate now 100% LED lighting”
- “Older equipment replaced with new more efficient equipment”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BECKETT, William James Julius | Director | 2013-07-26 | Jun 1977 | English |
| BESLEY-GOULD, Tim | Director | 2022-12-31 | Feb 1979 | British |
| CAMPBELL, Paul Adam | Director | 2013-07-26 | Feb 1964 | British |
| GOTT, Huw John Rhys | Director | 2013-07-26 | Aug 1977 | English |
| JONES, Karen Elisabeth Dind | Director | 2013-07-26 | Jul 1956 | British |
| MCLAUCHLAN, John Alexander | Director | 2013-07-26 | Dec 1978 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRAYTON, Richard Martin | Director | 2013-05-23 | 2013-07-26 |
| GOTT, Ceri | Director | 2022-12-31 | 2025-03-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graphite Capital General Partner Vii Llp | Corporate entity | voting-rights-50-to-75-percent-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 74 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-04-16 MA Memorandum articles
- 2026-04-16 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-16 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2026-04-16 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-03-31 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-03-20 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-03-20 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-03-20 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-03-20 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-03-20 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-08-13 | DISS40 | gazette | Gazette filings brought up to date | |
| 2025-08-12 | GAZ1 | gazette | Gazette notice compulsory | |
| 2025-08-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-08-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-13 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-10-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-02 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2024-07-04 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-06-21 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-06-21 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-06-21 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 13
- Capital events
- 5
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+11.8%
£89,782,000 £100,385,000
-
Cash
-7.3%
£10,145,000 £9,407,000
-
Net assets
-8.2%
-£44,966,000 -£48,658,000
-
Employees
+5.7%
1,173 1,240
-
Operating profit
-69.1%
£4,676,000 £1,445,000
-
Profit before tax
-212.9%
£1,490,000 -£1,682,000
-
Wages
+16.6%
£29,653,000 £34,586,000
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