ESH INVESTMENTS LIMITED

1. ESH INVESTMENTS LIMITED 2014-12-17 → present
2. CROSSCO (1383) LIMITED 2014-10-29 → 2014-12-17

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Armstrong Watson Audit Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The directors prepare and review rolling forecasts, for a period beyond 36 months. Review of these, and after making further detailed enquiries, taking into account the factors discussed above, they have a reasonable expectation that both the Parent Company and Group have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and accordingly continue to prepare the Parent Company and Group financial statements on a going concern basis.”

Group structure

1. ESH INVESTMENTS LIMITED · parent
   1. ABC Rental Properties Limited 1% · England · Property letting
   2. Boathouse Lane Projects Limited 1% · England · Land and property development
   3. Border Construction (Holdings) Limited 1% · England · Civil engineering and building contractor
   4. Border Construction Limited 1% · England · Civil engineering and building contractor
   5. David Wilkinson Building Contractors Limited 1% · England · Dormant
   6. Dunelm (Bowburn) Limited 1% · England · Land and property development
   7. Dunelm Homes (Seaham) Limited 1% · England · Housebuilder
   8. Dunelm Homes Limited 1% · England · Housebuilder
   9. Dunelm National Projects Limited 1% · England · Property development
   10. Dunelm Property Services Limited 1% · England · Social housing - refurbishment of new build
   11. Esh Acorn Homes Limited 1% · England · Housebuilder
   12. Esh Construction Limited 1% · England · Civil engineering and building contractor
   13. Esh Developments Limited 1% · England · Land and property development
   14. Esh EBT Trustee Limited 1% · England · Non- trading
   15. Esh Holdings Limited 1% · England · Holding company
   16. Esh Homes Limited 1% · England · Housebuilder
   17. Esh Remedios Limited 0.51% · England · Site investigation
   18. J Tonks (Transport) Limited 1% · England · Waste disposal and recycling
   19. Lumsden & Carroll Limited 1% · England · Commercial builder
   20. Remedios Limited 0.75% · England · Site investigation
   21. Stephen Easten Building Limited 1% · England · Commercial builder
   22. Tonks Recycling Limited 1% · England · Waste disposal and recycling
   23. Tursdale Business Park Limited 0.535% · England · Property letting
   24. Tursdale Recycling Limited 1% · England · Waste disposal and recycling
   25. Wilkinson Facilities Services Limited 1% · England · Property and Facilities Management
   26. Boathouse Lane (Freehold) Limited 0.5% · Non-trading
   27. Eastbourne JV Limited 0.5% · Housebuilder
   28. Esh Energy Limited 0.49% · Dissolved 19th November 2019
   29. Esh Stantec Ltd 0.5% · Civil engineering
   30. Esh Salutation Road Limited 0.5% · Housebuilder
   31. Heighington JV Limited 0.5% · Housebuilder
   32. West Park JV Limited 0.5% · Housebuilder
   33. Middleton St George JV Limited 0.5% · Housebuilder
   34. Prestige Exclusive Homes Limited 0.5% · Property development
   35. Neasham Road JV Ltd 0.5% · Housebuilder
   36. Philadelphia Estates Limited 0.3% · Property letting
   37. Philadelphia Properties Limited 0.3% · Property letting
   38. Speed 8767 Limited 0.3% · Property letting
   39. Esh Space The Park Limited 0.15% · Property development
   40. M62 Developments Limited 0.43% · Dormant

Significant events

• “Cost inflation had subsided quite markedly towards the end of 2023, allowing a more predictable backdrop for bidding and pricing work, with our efforts in previous years to move towards a greater proportion of negotiated, two-stage and cost reimbursable contracts leading to a greater degree of optimism around margin stabilisation.”
• “The group ended the year with its highest level of liquidity in its history. Net cash of £36m was reported at year end, which when added together with committed £6m undrawn credit line, gives total liquidity of £42m.”
• “This improvement in earnings and capital management provided the board with the confidence to resume payment of dividends, with a £3.2m F-ordinary voting dividend paid, the first F-ordinary voting dividend paid since 2018, alongside a £0.4m A-ordinary non-voting dividend.”
• “The board also redeemed £750k of the A-ordinary non-voting share capital.”
• “The group is underpinned by a record order book, which at the time of writing, contains visibility on contracts worth over £2bn.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

3

last 12 months

Capital events

2

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +1.8%

  £260,577,000 → £265,210,000

• Cash

  —

  Not reported

• Net assets

  —

  Not reported

• Employees

  +5.8%

  723 → 765

• Operating profit

  +571.1%

  £409,000 → £2,745,000

• Profit before tax

  +325.1%

  £597,000 → £2,538,000

• Wages

  +12.9%

  £34,473,000 → £38,914,000

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