PENTLAND BRANDS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-15 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-01
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£35M
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£23M
Equity attributable
Employees
724
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£24M
Period ending 2025-01-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- PENTLAND BRANDS LIMITED 2016-01-12 → present
- PENTLAND BRANDS LAKESIDE LIMITED 2015-10-12 → 2016-01-12
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £90,800,000 | £102,900,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£6,000,000 | -£28,300,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£10,000,000 | -£23,900,000 | |
| Net profit | -£7,200,000 | -£25,000,000 | |
| Cash | £27,800,000 | £34,800,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £53,300,000 | £26,400,000 | |
| Net assets | £47,500,000 | £22,500,000 | |
| Equity | £47,500,000 | £22,500,000 | |
| Average employees | 810 | 724 | |
| Wages | £43,900,000 | £44,200,000 |
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 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -6.6% | -27.5% | |
| Net margin | -7.9% | -24.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | -11.3% | -107.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.45x | 1.09x |
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
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“As at 31 January 2025, the company had net assets of £22.5m and a loss of £25.0m for the period then ended. Funding arrangements are provided by Pentland Group Limited, the company's immediate parent undertaking. Pentland Group Limited have confirmed their intention to provide financial support to assist the company in meeting its liabilities as and when they fall due, to the extent that resources are not otherwise available to the company to meet such liabilities. Pentland Group Limited has also confirmed that it has the ability to provide such support and will provide the support, as appropriate, for the period from the date of approval of these financial statements for the next 12 months. In assessing Pentland Group Limited's ability to provide support, the directors have considered forecasts, including the impact of the wider economic environment, and resulting forecast cash headroom. The forecasts indicate that, taking account of reasonably possible downsides, the parent will have sufficient funds to provide support to the company, should this funding be required. Consequently, the directors are confident that the company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and have therefore prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “In June 2024, we moved from our global HQ in Finchley, North London, to a new central London Hub located in Farringdon, Central London.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CULLEN, Timothy Edward | Secretary | 2015-10-12 | — | — |
| FIELDHOUSE, Karen | Director | 2025-06-02 | Oct 1984 | British |
| LONG, Andrew Michael | Director | 2015-10-12 | Apr 1971 | British |
| PATEL, Chirag Yashvant | Director | 2018-02-01 | Mar 1978 | British |
| RUBIN, Andrew Keith | Director | 2015-10-12 | Jan 1965 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILBURD, Samantha Elizabeth | Director | 2015-10-12 | 2018-03-01 |
| GODDEN, Jonathan Mark | Director | 2020-10-01 | 2023-06-30 |
| HIGHFIELD, Dominique | Director | 2020-10-01 | 2022-02-28 |
| NURSE, Katrina Lesley | Director | 2019-01-02 | 2020-09-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pentland Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-11-02 | Active |
| Pentland Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-11-02 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 45 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-07-06 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-07-06 MA Memorandum articles
- 2022-12-12 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-09 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2024-10-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-06 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-07-06 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-07-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-17 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-12-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-12 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2022-12-12 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2022-12-12 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2022-12-12 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-03-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-11-04 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-01-31 vs 2023-12-31