WILLIAM GRANT & SONS COMMERCIAL LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-12 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-29
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+1,043.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£117M
+53.4% vs 2023
Employees
20
+17.6% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£55M
-45.4% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £353,413,000 | £328,175,000 | |
| Operating profit | £100,620,000 | £79,255,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £100,097,000 | £54,693,000 | |
| Net profit | £76,483,000 | £40,876,000 | |
| Cash | £196,000 | £2,241,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £396,509,000 | £148,078,000 | |
| Net assets | £76,483,000 | £117,359,000 | |
| Equity | £76,483,000 | £117,359,000 | |
| Average employees | 17 | 20 | |
| Wages | £1,352,000 | £1,454,000 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 28.5% | 24.2% | |
| Net margin | 21.6% | 12.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 25.4% | 53.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.43x | 0.98x | |
| Interest cover | 122.86x | 1.93x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The analysis undertaken, combined with the actions taken, the financial strength and geographical spread of the business allow the Directors to conclude that the Group is well placed to manage its business risks successfully despite the current uncertain economic outlook. The Directors have also concluded that there are no material uncertainties that could have cast significant doubt over their ability to continue as a going concern for at least a year from the date of approval of the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “2024 has been a year of challenge and change for the Group... consumer confidence and spending power declined in response to rising prices and interest rates... uncertainty about the future caused by a range of issues including conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East... trade destocking... higher cost of financing inventories. In April 2025, the United States introduced additional tarrifs on goods imported from the UK...”
- “The World Bank predicts that Global growth is stabilising as inflation returns closer to targets and monetary easing supports activity in both advanced economies and emerging market and developing economies (EMDE's). This should give rise to a broadbased, moderate global expansion over 2025/26, at 2.7 percent per year, as trade and investment firm.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HENDERSON, Ewan John | Director | 2021-02-03 | Aug 1968 | British |
| LAING, William Douglas | Director | 2022-05-30 | Mar 1972 | British |
| MCKINLAY, Ken Strachan | Director | 2022-05-30 | Dec 1964 | British |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Grant & Sons Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-02-03 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 16 of 16 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type dormant | |
| 2023-09-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type dormant | |
| 2022-09-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-16 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-08-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-08-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-06-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-06-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-02-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-02-11 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2021-02-03 | NEWINC | incorporation | Incorporation company |
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
-7.1%
£353,413,000 £328,175,000
-
Cash
+1,043.4%
£196,000 £2,241,000
-
Net assets
+53.4%
£76,483,000 £117,359,000
-
Employees
+17.6%
17 20
-
Operating profit
-21.2%
£100,620,000 £79,255,000
-
Profit before tax
-45.4%
£100,097,000 £54,693,000
-
Wages
+7.5%
£1,352,000 £1,454,000
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