UNITED AUCTIONS GROUP LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-02 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-18
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£107
0% vs 2023
Net assets
£13M
+26% vs 2023
Employees
106
+16.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£4M
+46% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £24,087,629 | £27,474,617 | |
| Operating profit | £3,519,035 | £4,577,803 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,877,733 | £4,201,579 | |
| Net profit | £2,054,033 | £3,014,615 | |
| Cash | £107 | £107 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £15,203,375 | £15,810,845 | |
| Net assets | £10,665,810 | £13,439,885 | |
| Equity | £10,665,810 | £13,439,885 | |
| Average employees | 91 | 106 | |
| Wages | £2,587,726 | £2,920,756 |
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 | 14.6% | 16.7% | |
| Net margin | 8.5% | 11.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 23.1% | 29.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 60.4% | 53.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.49x | 1.45x | |
| Interest cover | 5.49x | 6.69x |
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
- Johnston Carmichael LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. 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 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
- UNITED AUCTIONS GROUP LIMITED · parent
- UA Livestock Limited 100%
- United Auctions Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 2nd April 2025 United Auctions Group transitioned to an Employee-Ownership Trust structure. The company and group was acquired by United Auctions Trustees Limited acting as nominee company for the United Auctions Employee Ownership Trust. United Auctions Employee Ownership Trust is considered to have control of the group from 2 April 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, David George | Director | 2025-05-01 | Jul 1964 | British |
| HENDERSON, Richard | Director | 2025-05-01 | Dec 1970 | British |
| ROBERTS, John Andrew | Director | 2016-11-07 | Feb 1966 | British |
| SHARP, Christopher Simon | Director | 2016-11-07 | May 1977 | British |
| WOOD, Peter | Director | 2025-05-01 | Feb 1979 | British |
| YOUNG, Donald William | Director | 2016-11-07 | Nov 1969 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCLEAN, Neil Fraser | Director | 2017-02-14 | 2022-03-31 |
| PURVES, George William | Director | 2016-11-07 | 2025-05-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Auctions Trustees Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2025-04-02 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 68 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-05-30 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-05-30 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-05-30 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-06-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-06-17 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-06-17 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-06-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-17 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-06-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-06-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-06-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-06-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-06-10 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-06-09 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-06-09 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-06-06 | PSC09 | persons-with-significant-control | Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-05-30 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-05-30 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-05-30 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 20
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
+14.1%
£24,087,629 £27,474,617
-
Cash
0%
£107 £107
-
Net assets
+26%
£10,665,810 £13,439,885
-
Employees
+16.5%
91 106
-
Operating profit
+30.1%
£3,519,035 £4,577,803
-
Profit before tax
+46%
£2,877,733 £4,201,579
-
Wages
+12.9%
£2,587,726 £2,920,756
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