COLLIER GROUP (ESSEX) LIMITED

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

Lambert Chapman LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the director's 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 ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the original financial statements were authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. COLLIER GROUP (ESSEX) LIMITED · parent
   1. Collier & Catchpole Limited 100% · England and Wales

Significant events

• “2024 was a challenging market in the builders merchant sector with the slowdown seen across the board in 2023 continuing in the early months due to continued concern over interest rates and the general sluggishness of the property market. Coupled with the impending general election decision making showed caution with developers slow to break ground and the general public happy to retain cash.”
• “Margins have remained under pressure, particularly in Colchester where competition increased with the opening of more than one new site. With the new Government keen to relax planning regulation to deliver a stronger construction sector, the Group is hopeful this will lead to an upturn.”

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

Filings

7

last 12 months

Capital events

0

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

  +1.7%

  £12,235,985 → £12,444,346

• Cash

  -20.6%

  £602,635 → £478,586

• Net assets

  -5.6%

  £3,442,652 → £3,250,701

• Employees

  +6.7%

  45 → 48

• Operating profit

  -377.9%

  -£48,995 → -£234,150

• Profit before tax

  -338.3%

  -£56,994 → -£249,814

• Wages

  +6.9%

  £1,440,278 → £1,540,053

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