WD FF LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-28
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-12 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-05-29
Watchouts
Cash
£126M
-15% vs 2024
Net assets
£23M
-16.1% vs 2024
Employees
28,625
+1.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£7M
-29.8% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-28
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-29 | 2025-03-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £4,190,300,000 | £4,202,800,000 | |
| Operating profit | £98,200,000 | £103,700,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£5,700,000 | -£7,400,000 | |
| Net profit | -£2,100,000 | -£4,500,000 | |
| Cash | £148,700,000 | £126,400,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,385,000,000 | £1,379,900,000 | |
| Net assets | £27,900,000 | £23,400,000 | |
| Equity | £27,900,000 | £23,400,000 | |
| Average employees | 28,090 | 28,625 | |
| Wages | £444,700,000 | £476,000,000 |
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 | 2024-03-29 | 2025-03-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 2.3% | 2.5% | |
| Net margin | -0.1% | -0.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.1% | 7.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 98.8% | 99.0% | |
| Current ratio | 0.52x | 0.54x | |
| Interest cover | 0.91x | 0.90x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“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 the 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
- WD FF LIMITED · parent
- Beech House Deeside Limited 100%
- Bejam Group Limited 100%
- Iceland Foods Limited 100%
- Iceland International Limited 100%
- Iceland Restaurants (IRC) Limited 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEECH, Sean | Director | 2025-07-21 | Jun 1964 | British |
| DHALIWAL, Paul Singh | Director | 2021-02-01 | Jul 1991 | British |
| DHALIWAL, Tarsem Singh | Director | 2020-05-30 | Oct 1963 | British |
| EWEN, Richard David | Director | 2021-02-01 | Mar 1982 | British |
| WALKER, Malcolm Conrad, Sir | Director | 2020-05-30 | Feb 1946 | British |
| WALKER, Richard Malcolm | Director | 2021-02-01 | Aug 1980 | British |
| WELDING, Larus | Director | 2022-02-17 | Dec 1976 | Icelandic |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Tarsem Singh Dhaliwal | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2020-05-30 | Ceased 2026-01-12 |
| Sir Malcolm Conrad Walker | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2020-05-30 | Ceased 2021-01-29 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 33 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-01-31 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-01-31 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-03-20 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-03-20 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-26 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2026-01-16 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-08-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-01-31 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2025-01-31 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-01-31 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-01-31 | SH10 | capital | Capital variation of rights attached to shares | |
| 2024-08-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-06-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-03-20 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-03-20 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-03-20 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2024-03-20 | SH10 | capital | Capital variation of rights attached to shares | |
| 2023-11-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-05-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-06-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-02-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 2
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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 2025-03-28 vs 2024-03-29
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Turnover
+0.3%
£4,190,300,000 £4,202,800,000
-
Cash
-15%
£148,700,000 £126,400,000
-
Net assets
-16.1%
£27,900,000 £23,400,000
-
Employees
+1.9%
28,090 28,625
-
Operating profit
+5.6%
£98,200,000 £103,700,000
-
Profit before tax
-29.8%
-£5,700,000 -£7,400,000
-
Wages
+7%
£444,700,000 £476,000,000
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