SHOE ZONE RETAIL LIMITED
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Cash
£5.9M
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£46M
Equity attributable
Employees
1,129
Average over period
Profit before tax
£3.4M
Period ending 2025-09-27
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-09-27
| Metric | Trend | 2024-09-28 | 2025-09-27 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £161,322,000 | £149,095,000 | — | |
| Operating profit | £11,460,000 | £4,921,000 | — | |
| Profit before tax | £10,256,000 | £3,408,000 | — | |
| Net profit | £7,522,000 | £2,003,000 | — | |
| Cash | £3,640,000 | £5,947,000 | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £72,666,000 | £70,414,000 | — | |
| Net assets | £42,297,000 | £45,832,000 | — | |
| Equity | £42,297,000 | £45,832,000 | — | |
| Average employees | 1,237 | 1,129 | — | |
| Wages | £35,606,000 | £33,124,000 | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | £521,000 | £595,000 | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. Year-on-year comparison hidden: this filing covers about 12 months versus 12 months prior. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-09-28 | 2025-09-27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 7.1% | 3.3% | |
| Net margin | 4.7% | 1.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 15.8% | 7.0% | |
| Current ratio | 1.50x | 1.73x | |
| Interest cover | 9.52x | 3.25x |
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.
Name history
Renamed 3 times since incorporation
- SHOE ZONE RETAIL LIMITED 2014-04-30 → present
- SHOE ZONE LIMITED 2001-01-22 → 2014-04-30
- BENSON SHOE LIMITED 1981-12-31 → 2001-01-22
- BENSON SHOE COMPANY,LIMITED 1917-07-21 → 1981-12-31
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors consider that the business is a going concern and that it is appropriate to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis. In reaching this conclusion, the Directors have assessed the Companys current performance and position and factors that may affect the Company's future prospects.”
Significant events
- “This was a challenging year, particularly in the second half, as consumer confidence declined further following the Government's October 2024 budget and highly adverse fiscal policies, with persistent inflation, high interest rates and reduced levels of disposable income.”
- “Profit before tax decreased to £3.4m (2024: £10.2m).”
- “We completed 17 projects in the year, being 6 refits and 11 relocations and new stores, reducing our original Shoe Zone format to 68 (2024: 112). We closed 39 stores in the period.”
- “A dividend of £nil was declared at the H1 2025 with the Company expecting to maintain prudent cash management and declare a £nil dividend for the full year FY25.”
- “At the year-end the net cash was £5.9m (2024: £3.6m).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 28 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOWEN, Catherine Anne | Secretary | 2019-09-05 | — | — |
| BLACK, Zoe | Director | 2023-09-12 | Apr 1978 | British |
| BOOT, Terry Michael | Director | 2021-03-08 | Aug 1964 | British |
| BOWEN, Catherine Anne | Director | 2021-04-01 | Nov 1976 | Welsh |
| SMITH, Anthony Edward Pennington | Director | 1997-01-08 | May 1967 | English |
| SMITH, John Charles Pennington | Director | 2000-10-30 | Oct 1965 | British |
Show 28 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, Gary | Secretary | 1998-09-01 | 1999-09-24 |
| FOOT, Peter John Lewis | Secretary | 1996-08-20 | 1998-09-01 |
| HENNELL, Lee Spencer | Secretary | 2016-12-01 | 2018-08-24 |
| PHILLIPS, Keith Richard | Secretary | 1999-09-01 | 2016-12-01 |
| ZANKER, David John | Secretary | — | 1996-08-20 |
| BLOOR, Charles Richard | Director | 2008-12-19 | 2016-10-11 |
| BLOOR, Charles Richard | Director | 2007-10-01 | 2008-01-29 |
| BOWER, Richard Guy | Director | 2015-03-30 | 2018-09-20 |
| BOWER, Richard Guy | Director | 1998-07-08 | 2001-10-31 |
| BROWN, Gary | Director | 1999-01-03 | 1999-09-01 |
| BROWN, Steven David Russell | Director | 2003-01-02 | 2004-01-29 |
| DAVIS, Nicholas John | Director | 2006-11-27 | 2019-08-30 |
| FALLON, John Edward | Director | 1995-11-28 | 1997-01-09 |
| FEARN, Jonathan Lee | Director | 2016-07-25 | 2020-07-31 |
| FOOT, Peter John Lewis | Director | 2020-07-06 | 2021-02-19 |
| FOOT, Peter John Lewis | Director | 1997-01-08 | 1998-07-10 |
| FRENCH, Brian Blake | Director | — | 1995-12-31 |
| HOWES, Clare Alison | Director | 2003-03-28 | 2022-08-05 |
| LEWIS, Wendy | Director | 2000-10-30 | 2008-02-15 |
| MURPHY, Daniel Louis | Director | 1997-01-08 | 1997-04-29 |
| ORR, Steven David | Director | 2019-12-09 | 2023-11-30 |
| ORR, Steven David | Director | 2007-09-14 | 2012-09-07 |
| PHILLIPS, Keith Richard | Director | 2000-10-10 | 2006-11-27 |
| PORTER, Derek Charles | Director | 1993-12-01 | 1997-01-17 |
| SHEFFORD-THOMAS, Naomi Tamar | Director | 2007-09-14 | 2019-07-02 |
| SMITH, Christopher James | Director | — | 1998-01-20 |
| SMITH, Michael John | Director | — | 2014-04-17 |
| WASSALL, Graham Wainwright | Director | — | 1995-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shoe Zone Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 318 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-08-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-07-27 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-07-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-06-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-01-04 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-07-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-06-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-04-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-03-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 1
- 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.