WILLIAM GRANT & SONS BRANDS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-12 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-29
Watchouts
Cash
£195M
+101.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£563M
+17.7% vs 2023
Employees
238
+6.3% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£136M
-47.2% vs 2023
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.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- WILLIAM GRANT & SONS BRANDS LIMITED 2014-06-10 → present
- DMWSL 762 LIMITED 2014-01-31 → 2014-06-10
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,205,774,000 | £1,085,756,000 | |
| Operating profit | £258,186,000 | £139,618,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £256,876,000 | £135,517,000 | |
| Net profit | £195,746,000 | £84,531,000 | |
| Cash | £96,606,000 | £195,027,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £479,234,000 | £591,035,000 | |
| Net assets | £477,975,000 | £562,506,000 | |
| Equity | £477,975,000 | £562,506,000 | |
| Average employees | 224 | 238 | |
| Wages | £20,792,000 | £19,555,000 |
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 | 21.4% | 12.9% | |
| Net margin | 16.2% | 7.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 53.9% | 23.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.73x | 1.86x | |
| Interest cover | 113.84x | 27.26x |
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
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have prepared the financial statements on the going concern basis as they do not intend to liquidate the Company or to cease its operations, and as they have concluded that the Company's financial position means that this is realistic. They have also concluded that there are no material uncertainties that could have cast significant doubt over their ability to continue as a going concern for at least a year from the date of approval of the financial statements ("the going concern period").”
Group structure
- WILLIAM GRANT & SONS BRANDS LIMITED · parent
- William Grant & Sons Brand Management Limited Partnership
Significant events
- “There have been no significant events affecting the Company since the year end.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 27 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAGLEY, Douglas John | Director | 2018-06-11 | Sep 1967 | Australian |
| GEOGHEGAN, Andrew | Director | 2025-01-08 | Feb 1973 | British |
| HAYTHORNTHWAITE, Sophia Marie | Director | 2026-04-01 | May 1986 | British |
| HENDERSON, Ewan John | Director | 2019-06-01 | Aug 1968 | British |
| JENKINS, Graeme Mckinlay | Director | 2025-05-14 | Aug 1975 | British |
| NARASIMHAN, Badrinath Ekkadu | Director | 2022-10-01 | Jun 1974 | British |
Show 27 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARGETON, Gregory Justin | Secretary | 2017-10-02 | 2020-09-30 |
| HENDERSON, Ewan John | Secretary | 2014-05-28 | 2017-10-02 |
| DM COMPANY SERVICES (LONDON) LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2014-01-31 | 2014-05-28 |
| BARGETON, Gregory Justin | Director | 2017-10-02 | 2020-09-30 |
| BREWER, Gary William | Director | 2017-10-02 | 2022-01-31 |
| COWING, Helen Gaye | Director | 2019-05-13 | 2019-11-20 |
| DAVID, Stella Julie | Director | 2014-09-11 | 2016-02-29 |
| DRAGOI, Victor | Director | 2019-03-01 | 2021-02-26 |
| GILLET, Vincent Georges Francois | Director | 2022-12-01 | 2024-05-31 |
| GLADMAN, Philip Andrew | Director | 2015-09-21 | 2022-01-31 |
| GREENWOOD, Rita Maria | Director | 2017-10-02 | 2024-03-05 |
| HAGH, Søren | Director | 2024-05-16 | 2025-10-31 |
| HANCOCK, Paul Geoffrey | Director | 2021-12-31 | 2025-09-16 |
| HENDERSON, Ewan John | Director | 2018-12-11 | 2019-05-31 |
| HENDERSON, Ewan John | Director | 2014-05-28 | 2017-10-02 |
| HUNT, Simon John | Director | 2014-09-11 | 2020-11-30 |
| JEREZ, Victor Eulogio | Director | 2017-06-15 | 2018-08-01 |
| LAMONT, Michael | Director | 2019-11-20 | 2020-09-04 |
| LAMONT, Michael | Director | 2014-05-28 | 2019-09-01 |
| MACNEILL, Colin James | Director | 2014-05-28 | 2014-05-28 |
| MASON, Christopher Wesley | Director | 2017-10-02 | 2018-12-13 |
| MCNAIR, Martin James | Director | 2014-01-31 | 2014-05-28 |
| ROCHFORD, Paul Henry | Director | 2017-01-01 | 2021-12-31 |
| THOMSON, Bryan Traill | Director | 2014-09-11 | 2018-06-11 |
| UPTON, David Gregory | Director | 2025-09-16 | 2026-04-01 |
| WILSON, Giles Robert Bryant | Director | 2020-09-04 | 2024-05-10 |
| YUSEN, Jonathan Mark | Director | 2014-09-11 | 2022-09-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Grant & Sons Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 90 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-09-13 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-09-13 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-09-13 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-04-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-13 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-09-13 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-09-13 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-09-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
-10%
£1,205,774,000 £1,085,756,000
-
Cash
+101.9%
£96,606,000 £195,027,000
-
Net assets
+17.7%
£477,975,000 £562,506,000
-
Employees
+6.3%
224 238
-
Operating profit
-45.9%
£258,186,000 £139,618,000
-
Profit before tax
-47.2%
£256,876,000 £135,517,000
-
Wages
-5.9%
£20,792,000 £19,555,000
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