BENSONSFORBEDSRETAIL LTD
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Next accounts due
2027-06-30 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-09-27
Confirmation statement due
2027-04-02 (in 11mo)
Last made up 2026-03-19
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£14M
+29.6% vs 2024
Net assets
-£126M
-19.5% vs 2024
Employees
1,538
+2.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£21M
+11.2% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- BENSONSFORBEDSRETAIL LTD 2020-06-20 → present
- BLUEGROUP MANUFACTURING LIMITED 2020-03-20 → 2020-06-20
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-09-27
| Metric | Trend | 2024-09-28 | 2025-09-27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £256,300,000 | £269,396,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£7,148,000 | -£3,337,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£23,107,000 | -£20,509,000 | |
| Net profit | -£23,107,000 | -£20,509,000 | |
| Cash | £10,427,000 | £13,513,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£16,016,000 | -£25,223,000 | |
| Net assets | -£105,159,000 | -£125,668,000 | |
| Equity | -£105,159,000 | -£125,668,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,496 | 1,538 | |
| Wages | £52,667,000 | £55,953,000 |
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 | 2024-09-28 | 2025-09-27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -2.8% | -1.2% | |
| Net margin | -9.0% | -7.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 44.6% | 13.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 171.0% | 177.0% | |
| Current ratio | 0.30x | 0.29x | |
| Interest cover | -0.45x | -0.19x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- MHA Audit Services LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors believe that the Group has adequate resources to continue in operation for 12 months from the date of signing of these financial statements. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the Annual Report and Financial Statements.”
Significant events
- “On 13 February 2026 the Company's principal lender, Alteri BlueGroup Cayman Limited, agreed to extend the repayment date of the Company's secured lending facilities from 30 June 2026 to 30 June 2027.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COLLARD, Nicholas Jon Gilbert | Director | 2021-11-18 | Jan 1972 | British |
| HENNIGAN, Joseph Francis | Director | 2025-01-15 | Jan 1983 | British |
| SLATER, Mark Howard | Director | 2024-10-01 | Mar 1971 | British |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, Gordon David | Director | 2022-07-29 | 2024-10-01 |
| CHAPPELL, Gavin John | Director | 2022-09-06 | 2025-04-30 |
| HAYNES, Francesca | Director | 2022-09-06 | 2023-02-23 |
| JACKSON, Mark Xavier | Director | 2020-06-30 | 2022-08-11 |
| PRESTON, Edward John | Director | 2022-09-06 | 2024-04-01 |
| SIDEBOTHAM, John Harvey | Director | 2020-06-30 | 2022-08-11 |
| VOS, Huibert Arnold | Director | 2020-03-20 | 2020-09-28 |
| WILLIAMS, Alan Christopher | Director | 2020-08-06 | 2022-08-23 |
| WINSER, Mandy Jane | Director | 2021-11-18 | 2022-07-21 |
| WYKES, Joe | Director | 2020-08-06 | 2021-07-16 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bensonsforbedsholdco Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2020-04-29 | Active |
| Bluegroup Bidco Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2020-03-20 | Ceased 2020-04-29 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 55 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-03-05 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2026-02-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-05 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-01-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-27 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-05-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-03-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-03-03 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-11-18 | RP04TM01 | officers | Second filing of director termination with name | |
| 2022-09-21 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name |
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-09-27 vs 2024-09-28
-
Turnover
+5.1%
£256,300,000 £269,396,000
-
Cash
+29.6%
£10,427,000 £13,513,000
-
Net assets
-19.5%
-£105,159,000 -£125,668,000
-
Employees
+2.8%
1,496 1,538
-
Operating profit
+53.3%
-£7,148,000 -£3,337,000
-
Profit before tax
+11.2%
-£23,107,000 -£20,509,000
-
Wages
+6.2%
£52,667,000 £55,953,000
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