WAYLANDS AUTOMOTIVE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-03 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-20
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
+145% vs 2023
Net assets
£10M
+29.4% vs 2023
Employees
310
+25% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£3M
+24.2% 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 | £200,870,333 | £198,037,457 | |
| Operating profit | £4,009,315 | £4,874,083 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,503,506 | £3,109,752 | |
| Net profit | £1,704,153 | £2,345,990 | |
| Cash | £1,725,813 | £4,228,512 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £11,162,995 | £15,690,319 | |
| Net assets | £7,973,961 | £10,319,951 | |
| Equity | £7,973,961 | £10,319,951 | |
| Average employees | 248 | 310 | |
| Wages | £10,231,951 | £10,536,317 |
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 | 2.0% | 2.5% | |
| Net margin | 0.8% | 1.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 35.9% | 31.1% | |
| Current ratio | 0.98x | 0.97x | |
| Interest cover | 2.66x | 2.76x |
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
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group's and parent company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- WAYLANDS AUTOMOTIVE LIMITED · parent
- Fawcett's Garage (Newbury) Limited 100%
Significant events
- “In August, the group completed the acquisition of Volvo Gloucester, extending representation into the contiguous territory of Gloucestershire.”
- “The period also saw the completion of the £14.8m retail investment programme across each franchise and now establishes every business across the group as a premium retail location.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O'HANLON, Karen | Secretary | 2018-12-31 | — | — |
| O'HANLON, John Francis | Director | 2016-06-27 | Nov 1969 | British |
| SMULLEN, James Martin | Director | 2018-07-02 | Apr 1989 | British |
| SPENCER, Richard Mark | Director | 2018-08-17 | Jul 1967 | British |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr John Francis O'Hanlon | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-06-27 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 39 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-27 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2026-03-27 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-10-06 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-09-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-08-30 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-08-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-11-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-09-06 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-04-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-12-21 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-11-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-11-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-06-29 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2021-05-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-02-15 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2020-12-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-09-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- 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
-1.4%
£200,870,333 £198,037,457
-
Cash
+145%
£1,725,813 £4,228,512
-
Net assets
+29.4%
£7,973,961 £10,319,951
-
Employees
+25%
248 310
-
Operating profit
+21.6%
£4,009,315 £4,874,083
-
Profit before tax
+24.2%
£2,503,506 £3,109,752
-
Wages
+3%
£10,231,951 £10,536,317
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