BROOK TAVERNER LIMITED
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Cash
£5.5m
+191.6% highest in 3 filed years
Net assets
£20m
+0.4% vs 2024
Employees
246
+9.3% highest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£8.4m
+9.9% highest in 3 filed years
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
3-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £51,917,025 | £52,681,281 | £55,981,745 | +6.3% | |
| Operating profit | £8,542,464 | £7,657,329 | £8,326,728 | +8.7% | |
| Profit before tax | £8,328,720 | £7,621,804 | £8,373,937 | +9.9% | |
| Net profit | £6,317,848 | £5,683,740 | £6,262,051 | +10.2% | |
| Cash | £1,332,099 | £1,890,281 | £5,512,414 | +191.6% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £14,792,730 | £20,220,886 | £20,300,940 | +0.4% | |
| Net assets | £14,665,249 | £19,898,989 | £19,979,043 | +0.4% | |
| Equity | £14,665,249 | £19,898,989 | £19,979,043 | +0.4% | |
| Average employees | 217 | 225 | 246 | +9.3% | |
| Wages | £7,222,590 | £8,003,972 | £8,385,814 | +4.8% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £341,485 | £1,509,058 | £1,217,498 | -19.3% | |
| Directors' pension contributions | £60,000 | £360,000 | £60,000 | -83.3% | |
| Highest paid director | £121,973 | £205,961 | £205,711 | -0.1% |
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 —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 16.5% | 14.5% | 14.9% | |
| Net margin | 12.2% | 10.8% | 11.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 57.7% | 37.9% | 41.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 35.8% | 23.3% | 24.1% | |
| Current ratio | 2.57x | 3.28x | 4.05x | |
| Interest cover | 39.33x | — | — |
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 1 time since incorporation
- BROOK TAVERNER LIMITED 2009-04-30 → present
- BROOK TAVERNER & CO. LIMITED 1948-03-09 → 2009-04-30
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Armstrong Watson Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors believe that the company and the group have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The group continues to have the support of the directors and shareholders and therefore continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting”
Group structure
- BROOK TAVERNER LIMITED · parent
- Brook Taverner B.V. 100%
- Brook Taverner USA Corp 100%
- John Haggas Limited 100%
- Brook Taverner 2016 Limited 100%
Significant events
- “During the year, a group re-structure occurred on 29 April 2025. As a result of the group re-structure, Brook Taverner Holdings Limited has become the new ultimate parent entity of Brook Taverner Limited.”
- “During the year, as part of the group re-structure on 29 April 2025, property previously held in Brook Taverner Limited was transferred to Peaspring Limited by way of a dividend in specie, measured in book value.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOOTH, Andrew Philip | Secretary | 2003-06-30 | — | British |
| BOOTH, Andrew Philip | Director | 2003-06-30 | Nov 1968 | British |
| BOOTH, Jo-Anne | Director | 2011-04-01 | Jun 1969 | British |
| JONES, John Benjamin | Director | 2002-01-01 | May 1969 | British |
| JONES, Rachel Elizabeth | Director | 2011-04-01 | Jun 1970 | British |
| SCOTT, Jason Edwin Russell | Director | 2006-01-01 | Mar 1970 | British |
| SCOTT, Rebecca | Director | 2011-04-01 | Sep 1970 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAGGAS, Judith Helen | Secretary | 2024-12-20 | 2025-09-01 |
| HOLMES, John Hadfield | Secretary | — | 2003-06-30 |
| CHAMBERS, Thomas Patrick | Director | — | 2000-06-30 |
| HOLMES, John Hadfield | Director | — | 2003-06-30 |
| RUMP, Christopher | Director | — | 2002-12-31 |
| SCHIMMEL, Johann | Director | — | 1997-12-31 |
| THOMPSON, John | Director | — | 1997-11-27 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brook Taverner Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2025-04-30 | Active |
| Peaspring Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2025-04-29 | Ceased 2025-04-30 |
| Peaspring Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-04-29 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 144 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-09-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-09-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-09-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-09-08 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-12 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-05-12 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-05-12 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-30 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-20 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-09-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-03-15 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-09-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-09-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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.