DOLCE LIMITED
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Cash
£14M
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£7.8M
Equity attributable
Employees
2,228
Average over period
Profit before tax
£5.1M
Period ending 2025-07-25
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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5 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-07-25
| Metric | Trend | 2024-08-30 | 2025-07-25 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £53,513,077 | £58,500,218 | — | |
| Operating profit | £3,700,962 | £4,859,808 | — | |
| Profit before tax | £3,875,073 | £5,144,992 | — | |
| Net profit | £2,826,499 | £3,830,440 | — | |
| Cash | £5,984,430 | £13,658,677 | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £7,753,274 | — | |
| Net assets | £7,283,142 | £7,792,705 | — | |
| Equity | £7,283,142 | £7,792,705 | — | |
| Average employees | 2,113 | 2,228 | — | |
| Wages | £24,549,836 | £26,900,415 | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | £624,784 | £349,744 | — |
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 11 months versus 12 months prior. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-08-30 | 2025-07-25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 6.9% | 8.3% | |
| Net margin | 5.3% | 6.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 62.7% | |
| Current ratio | 1.64x | 1.62x | |
| Interest cover | 78.21x | — |
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 2 times since incorporation
- DOLCE LIMITED 2001-01-23 → present
- D.C.S. (NORTH WEST) LIMITED 1990-04-09 → 2001-01-23
- WISESTAR LIMITED 1990-02-15 → 1990-04-09
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice)
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Fairhurst Audit Services Ltd
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the next 12 months from the date of approval of these accounts. Consequently, the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Significant events
- “Defined benefit scheme closed to future accrual (30 June 2025), secured buy-in insurance contract (September 2025), and wind-up commenced (11 March 2026), with surplus written down to £Nil.”
- “Acquisition of Dolce by Demeter Bidco Limited on 31 October 2025, leading to a change in accounting reference date to 31 July.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BANDURA, Frank | Director | 2025-10-31 | Jun 1966 | British |
| TAYLOR, Richard James Wallington | Director | 2025-10-31 | Aug 1968 | British |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CURTIS, Robert Scott | Secretary | 1999-09-03 | 2012-09-30 |
| CURTIS, Scott | Secretary | 2012-10-01 | 2025-10-31 |
| TRANTER, Margaret | Secretary | — | 1999-09-06 |
| BELL, Louise Anne | Director | 2022-08-17 | 2024-02-23 |
| BLAKE, Simon James | Director | 2022-04-27 | 2024-11-19 |
| COLEMAN, Alan Ian | Director | 2024-02-23 | 2025-10-31 |
| COLEMAN, Alan Ian | Director | 2017-05-02 | 2020-07-07 |
| CURTIS, Adam | Director | 2015-09-22 | 2025-10-31 |
| CURTIS, Patrick Daniel | Director | 1999-09-03 | 2018-08-01 |
| CURTIS, Robert Scott | Director | 2015-08-01 | 2018-08-01 |
| CURTIS, Robert Scott | Director | 1999-09-03 | 2012-09-30 |
| CURTIS, Scott | Director | 2015-09-22 | 2025-10-31 |
| DAVIES, Donald | Director | — | 1999-09-03 |
| HOATHER, Jayne Clare | Director | 2020-11-30 | 2022-02-25 |
| WOODWARD, Benjamin | Director | 2024-09-16 | 2025-10-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D3s Enterprise Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2025-10-30 | Active |
| Dcs (North West) Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-10-30 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 170 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-11-14 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-11-14 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-03-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-01-30 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2026-01-27 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-11-14 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-11-14 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-11-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-11 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-11 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2025-11-11 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-10-30 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-10-30 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-06-04 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-05-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-03-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 17
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 5
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.