HOLCOMBE'S OF TAUNTON LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-19 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-02-05
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£671K
-66.7% vs 2023
Net assets
£2M
+42.2% vs 2023
Employees
134
+1,814.3% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£890K
+138.7% 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 | £2,161,651 | £66,443,205 | |
| Operating profit | -£405,988 | £1,414,628 | |
| Profit before tax | £372,771 | £889,958 | |
| Net profit | £340,442 | £518,111 | |
| Cash | £2,015,719 | £671,035 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £9,204,203 | £8,421,621 | |
| Net assets | £1,142,556 | £1,624,826 | |
| Equity | £1,142,556 | £1,624,826 | |
| Average employees | 7 | 134 | |
| Wages | £270,482 | £3,607,683 |
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 | -18.8% | 2.1% | |
| Net margin | 15.7% | 0.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | -4.4% | 16.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.00x | 0.91x | |
| Interest cover | -14.73x | 2.69x |
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
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the director has a reasonable expectation that the group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the director continues to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- HOLCOMBE'S OF TAUNTON LIMITED · parent
- WMG Property Limited 100%
- Wellington Motors Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The results reflect the first full year of retail activity following the December 2023 acquisition, in which Holcombe's of Taunton Limited increased its shareholding in WMG Property Limited, the parent company of Wellington Motors Limited, to 100%.”
- “The director is hugely excited about this addition of Omoda & Jaecoo and are very proud to have been chosen as the representative for such a fast-moving innovative new entry into the UK marketplace.”
- “The group is moving forwards with its solar panel project in 2025 at Wellington and over the next 2 years this will be completed for all the groups freehold properties.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
1 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOLCOMBE, Matthew Charles | Director | 2019-11-12 | May 1979 | British |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Matthew Holcombe | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2019-11-12 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 28 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-12-31 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-08-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-02-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-02-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-02-05 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-12-31 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-12-19 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-12-19 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-12-18 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-12-18 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-12-18 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-12-18 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-12-15 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-12-14 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-12-01 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-11-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2022-11-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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
+2,973.7%
£2,161,651 £66,443,205
-
Cash
-66.7%
£2,015,719 £671,035
-
Net assets
+42.2%
£1,142,556 £1,624,826
-
Employees
+1,814.3%
7 134
-
Operating profit
+448.4%
-£405,988 £1,414,628
-
Profit before tax
+138.7%
£372,771 £889,958
-
Wages
+1,233.8%
£270,482 £3,607,683
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