COX MOTOR GROUP LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-27 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-13
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
+137.7% vs 2023
Net assets
£14M
+1.9% vs 2023
Employees
186
-1.6% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£984K
+718.3% vs 2023
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 | £67,902,679 | £72,971,432 | |
| Operating profit | £265,169 | -£172,774 | |
| Profit before tax | £120,278 | £984,243 | |
| Net profit | £12,591 | £561,195 | |
| Cash | £541,347 | £1,286,939 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £17,973,488 | £18,303,997 | |
| Net assets | £14,016,690 | £14,280,858 | |
| Equity | £14,016,690 | £14,280,858 | |
| Average employees | 189 | 186 | |
| Wages | £5,285,793 | £5,228,240 |
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 | 0.4% | -0.2% | |
| Net margin | 0.0% | 0.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 1.5% | -0.9% | |
| Current ratio | 1.36x | 1.32x | |
| Interest cover | 1.82x | -1.01x |
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
- Azets Audit Services
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors confirm that, having reviewed the Company's budget and forecasts in addition to consideration of the facilities available, notwithstanding the potential impact of the coronavirus pandemic, they consider that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- COX MOTOR GROUP LIMITED · parent
- D J Cox Limited 100%
Significant events
- “2025 will see the much anticipated move into the brand new purpose built Honda/MG facility located locally and on the site of the group's existing Volkswagen dealership.”
- “A significant development on site occurred in the very last part of the year as the bodyshop previously closed in late 2023 was refitted and let to a tenant, reducing overheads and providing a new source of site income.”
- “the most notable change was the letting and re-letting of the other buildings on the site. With Greggs and Puregym both signing long and lucrative leases, the profit generation from this new and welcome source will impact most positively in 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HAYTON, Helen | Secretary | 2015-11-20 | — | — |
| COX, David Jonathan | Director | 2015-11-20 | Feb 1971 | British |
| HAYTON, Helen Elizabeth | Director | 2015-11-20 | Nov 1970 | British |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr David Jonathan Cox | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 49 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-05-23 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-12-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-12-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-12-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-09-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-12-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-11-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-11-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-11-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-09-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2018-11-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2018-08-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2017-12-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2017-08-30 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2017-08-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+7.5%
£67,902,679 £72,971,432
-
Cash
+137.7%
£541,347 £1,286,939
-
Net assets
+1.9%
£14,016,690 £14,280,858
-
Employees
-1.6%
189 186
-
Operating profit
-165.2%
£265,169 -£172,774
-
Profit before tax
+718.3%
£120,278 £984,243
-
Wages
-1.1%
£5,285,793 £5,228,240
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