WWY (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-05 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-22
Watchouts
Cash
£25M
-14.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£85M
+10.5% vs 2023
Employees
342
-1.2% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£10M
-17% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
The directors are mindful that the balance sheet of the Company at 30 September 2024 shows net current liabilities of £20,995,000. This has arisen due to financing the purchase of freehold property which has been achieved utilising short-term finance within the group. This short-term finance has not yet been formalised and in the meantime the other group companies have given their assurance that they will support the Company financially, should the need arise, to meet its obligations as they fall due.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £184,681,000 | £171,888,000 | |
| Operating profit | £12,034,000 | £11,096,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £11,861,000 | £9,848,000 | |
| Net profit | £9,056,000 | £8,995,000 | |
| Cash | £29,743,000 | £25,432,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £93,137,000 | £93,466,000 | |
| Net assets | £77,249,000 | £85,329,000 | |
| Equity | £77,249,000 | £85,329,000 | |
| Average employees | 346 | 342 | |
| Wages | £8,803,000 | £9,402,000 |
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 | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 6.5% | 6.5% | |
| Net margin | 4.9% | 5.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 12.9% | 11.9% | |
| Current ratio | 1.25x | 1.26x | |
| Interest cover | 7.73x | 6.09x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- PKF Smith Cooper Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“The directors are mindful that the balance sheet of the Company at 30 September 2024 shows net current liabilities of £20,995,000. This has arisen due to financing the purchase of freehold property which has been achieved utilising short-term finance within the group. This short-term finance has not yet been formalised and in the meantime the other group companies have given their assurance that they will support the Company financially, should the need arise, to meet its obligations as they fall due.”
Group structure
- WWY (HOLDINGS) LIMITED · parent
- W. Wing Yip plc 100%
- W. Wing Yip (London) Limited 80%
- W. Wing Yip (Manchester) Limited 75%
- W Wing Yip (Mail Order) Limited 100%
- W. Wing Yip (International Trading) Limited 100%
- W. Wing Yip and Brothers (Holdings) Limited 100%
- W. Wing Yip & Brothers Trading Group Limited 100%
- WWYC (Holdings) Limited 100%
- WWYC Limited 100%
- WY Didi Limited 100%
- Nature's Charm UK Limited 50%
Significant events
- “Around the year end, the construction of a new cold store facility commenced at the Birmingham site which is due to be completed in December 2025.”
- “The Group has also entered into a joint venture project with an oriental vegan food producer to sell and distribute it's products online.”
- “In October and December 2024 W. Wing Yip & Brothers Trading Group Limited entered into agreements with certain minority shareholders to purchase 14% of the share capital of its subsidiary, W. Wing Yip (London) Limited, by 31 March 2025.”
- “In January 2025 the Company purchased an investment property in Birmingham from a group pension fund for £195,000.”
- “On 31 December 2024 the Company purchased from its subsidiary, WWYC Limited, three properties situated at its sites in London Cricklewood and Croydon for a total consideration of £7.63m. which was paid by way of offset of inter group indebtedness.”
- “In January 2025 the Company entered into a lease with its subsidiary, W. Wing Yip (London) Limited, for its store in Cricklewood, London for a period of 10 years from 30 September 2024 commencing at an annual rent of £896,500 exclusive of VAT.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BATES, Joseph Richard | Director | 2019-12-10 | Nov 1956 | British |
| HENDLEY, Jacqueline Anne | Director | 2020-10-01 | Nov 1965 | British |
| LARMOUTH, Philip Malcolm | Director | 2019-12-10 | Jan 1982 | British |
| POTTS, Nicola Jane | Director | 2023-09-06 | Nov 1989 | British |
| YIP, Albert Sze Yuen Wing | Director | 2019-12-10 | Apr 1974 | British |
| YIP, Brian John Sze Hain Wing | Director | 2018-10-23 | Jun 1975 | British |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Brian John Sze Hain Wing Yip | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2018-10-23 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 33 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-01-24 | DISS40 | gazette | Gazette filings brought up to date | |
| 2026-01-20 | GAZ1 | gazette | Gazette notice compulsory | |
| 2025-04-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-12-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-06-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-11-09 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-11-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement | |
| 2023-09-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-29 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-07-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-06-01 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-06-01 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-04-12 | RP04SH01 | capital | Second filing capital allotment shares | |
| 2022-11-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-03-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-12-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement | |
| 2020-10-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
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 2024-09-30 vs 2023-09-30
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Turnover
-6.9%
£184,681,000 £171,888,000
-
Cash
-14.5%
£29,743,000 £25,432,000
-
Net assets
+10.5%
£77,249,000 £85,329,000
-
Employees
-1.2%
346 342
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Operating profit
-7.8%
£12,034,000 £11,096,000
-
Profit before tax
-17%
£11,861,000 £9,848,000
-
Wages
+6.8%
£8,803,000 £9,402,000
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