PEOPLES LIMITED

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Deloitte LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The directors are of the opinion that the group's cash flow forecasts, taking account of reasonably possible changes in trading performance given current market and economic conditions, show that the group will be able to operate within its current facilities and comply with its banking covenants.”

Group structure

1. PEOPLES LIMITED · parent
   1. Peoples Ecosse Limited 1% · Scotland · Sale and repair of motor vehicles
   2. Peoples Liverpool Limited 1% · Scotland · Sale and repair of motor vehicles
   3. Total Vehicle Solutions Limited 1% · Scotland · Sale and repair of motor vehicles
   4. Peoples Bathgate & Livingston Limited 1% · Scotland · Dormant
   5. Liverpool Daily Centre Limited 1% · Scotland · Dormant
   6. Peoples Detroit Limited 1% · Scotland · Dormant
   7. Peoples Falkirk Limited 1% · Scotland · Dormant
   8. Peoples Glasgow Limited 1% · Scotland · Dormant

Significant events

• “A lot of time was taken up following court decisions relating to commission disclosure culminating in a recent Supreme Court judgement.”
• “During the year the company redeemed the 7,000,000 fourth preference shares at the amount subscribed when issued of £1 per share.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

3

last 12 months

Capital events

1

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.

• Turnover

  -2%

  £283,449,874 → £277,649,817

• Cash

  -64.3%

  £20,897,592 → £7,456,257

• Net assets

  -13.9%

  £45,527,615 → £39,221,612

• Employees

  +1.1%

  354 → 358

• Operating profit

  -81.1%

  £4,090,464 → £772,004

• Profit before tax

  -76.4%

  £4,604,884 → £1,085,364

• Wages

  -0.3%

  £13,600,342 → £13,565,782

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