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WILLIAM KEYS & SONS LTD

#NI663693 · Active · Incorporated 2019-08-14 (6y 9m) · Last filing 2025-09-16 (8mo ago)
Consumer Discretionary · SIC 45112 · G Wholesale & Retail Trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles · Full accounts

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Next accounts due

2026-09-30 (in 4mo)

Last filed for 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-08-27 (in 3mo)

Last made up 2025-08-13

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£6M

Latest balance sheet

Net assets

£24M

+6.8% vs 2023

Employees

25

0% vs 2023

Profit before tax

£2M

-63.1% vs 2023

Name history

Renamed 1 time since incorporation

  1. WILLIAM KEYS & SONS LTD 2020-01-17 → present
  2. WILLIAM KEYS & SONS NO.2 LTD 2019-08-14 → 2020-01-17

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31

Metric Trend 2023-12-312024-12-31
Turnover £73,608,318£73,497,601
Operating profit £4,782,500£1,802,531
Profit before tax £4,782,500£1,764,650
Net profit £3,671,517£1,540,063
Cash —£6,359,166
Total assets less current liabilities £23,506,722£25,610,913
Net assets £22,759,220£24,299,283
Equity £22,759,220£24,299,283
Average employees 2525
Wages £724,949£3,418,735

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 2023-12-312024-12-31
Operating margin 6.5%2.5%
Net margin 5.0%2.1%
Return on capital employed 20.3%7.0%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets) 19.0%16.4%
Current ratio 6.12x8.40x
Interest cover —47.58x

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
PricewaterhouseCoopers (Northern Ireland) LLP
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“The director believes that preparing the financial statements on a going concern basis is appropriate due to the continued financial support of the ultimate parent undertaking, Gardrum Holdings Limited. The director has received written confirmation that Gardrum Holdings Limited intend to support the Company for at least the 12 month period from the date of signing the financial statements.”

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
KEYS, Derek Irwin Director 2019-08-14 Jan 1966 British

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
William Keys & Sons Holdings Limited Corporate entity Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors 2020-01-15 Active
Gardrum Holdings Limited Corporate entity Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors 2019-08-14 Ceased 2020-01-15

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 26 total filings

Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution

  • 2020-01-17 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
  • 2020-01-17 CONNOT Change of name notice
  • 2020-01-16 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
Date Type Category Description
2025-09-16 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2025-08-21 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2024-09-17 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2024-08-21 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2023-10-06 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2023-08-29 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2022-09-28 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2022-09-08 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2022-03-10 MR04 mortgage Mortgage satisfy charge full PDF
2022-03-10 MR04 mortgage Mortgage satisfy charge full PDF
2021-09-29 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type small
2021-09-07 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2021-03-23 RP04CS01 confirmation-statement Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date PDF
2020-11-10 MR01 mortgage Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date PDF
2020-10-07 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates
2020-09-22 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2020-01-17 RESOLUTIONS resolution Resolution
2020-01-17 CONNOT change-of-name Change of name notice
2020-01-17 AA01 accounts Change account reference date company previous shortened PDF
2020-01-16 RESOLUTIONS resolution Resolution

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
2

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
0

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

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

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