WOODS SUPERMARKETS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-07-31 (in 2mo)
Last filed for 2024-07-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-18 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-04
Watchouts
Cash
£3M
+16% vs 2023
Net assets
£11M
+18.9% vs 2023
Employees
182
-4.2% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£2M
-18.1% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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2 PSCs 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 2024-07-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-07-31 | 2024-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £30,494,805 | £30,427,358 | |
| Operating profit | £1,846,709 | £1,893,126 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,090,029 | £1,712,107 | |
| Net profit | £1,772,294 | £1,340,473 | |
| Cash | £2,690,200 | £3,121,420 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £16,343,601 | £17,160,122 | |
| Net assets | £9,087,455 | £10,801,911 | |
| Equity | £9,087,455 | £10,801,911 | |
| Average employees | 190 | 182 | |
| Wages | £2,550,592 | £2,888,241 |
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 | 2023-07-31 | 2024-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 6.1% | 6.2% | |
| Net margin | 5.8% | 4.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 11.3% | 11.0% | |
| Current ratio | 0.92x | 1.03x | |
| Interest cover | 8.72x | 10.46x |
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
- Jones Peters
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have prepared budgets and cash flows for a period of at least twelve months from the end of the financial year which demonstrate that there is no material uncertainty regarding the group and company's ability to meet its liabilities as they fall due, and to continue as a going concern. On this basis the directors consider it appropriate to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- WOODS SUPERMARKETS LIMITED · parent
- Woods Supermarkets (Tandragee) Limited 100%
- Fruitfield Service Station Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Despite ongoing uncertain conditions as a result of the effects of the cost of living crisis and inflation, the directors are pleased to report a profitable year.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WOODS, Philip Joseph George | Secretary | 2025-06-27 | — | — |
| WOODS, Margarita May | Director | 2001-07-04 | Feb 1950 | British |
| WOODS, Philip Joseph George | Director | 2001-07-04 | Feb 1975 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOODS, Joseph Robert Neville | Secretary | 2001-07-04 | 2025-06-27 |
| WOODS, Joseph Robert Neville | Director | 2001-07-04 | 2025-06-27 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Margarita May Woods | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-11-11 |
| Mr Joseph Neville Woods | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-06-27 |
| Mr Philip Joseph George Woods | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 109 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-11 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-11-11 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-11 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2025-11-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-08-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-07-10 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-07-10 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-07-10 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-04-10 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-04-09 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-04-09 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-04-09 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-04-09 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-04-09 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-04-09 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-04-09 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 11
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 2
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 2024-07-31 vs 2023-07-31
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Turnover
-0.2%
£30,494,805 £30,427,358
-
Cash
+16%
£2,690,200 £3,121,420
-
Net assets
+18.9%
£9,087,455 £10,801,911
-
Employees
-4.2%
190 182
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Operating profit
+2.5%
£1,846,709 £1,893,126
-
Profit before tax
-18.1%
£2,090,029 £1,712,107
-
Wages
+13.2%
£2,550,592 £2,888,241
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