ESH INVESTMENTS LIMITED
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Cash
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Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£31M
-7.4% vs 2023
Employees
765
+5.8% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£2.5M
+325.1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £260,577,000 | £265,210,000 | +1.8% | |
| Operating profit | £409,000 | £2,745,000 | +571.1% | |
| Profit before tax | £597,000 | £2,538,000 | +325.1% | |
| Net profit | £72,000 | £1,961,000 | +2,623.6% | |
| Cash | — | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | — | |
| Net assets | — | — | — | |
| Equity | £33,043,000 | £30,597,000 | -7.4% | |
| Average employees | 723 | 765 | +5.8% | |
| Wages | £34,473,000 | £38,914,000 | +12.9% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £1,365,000 | £2,366,000 | +73.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 0.2% | 1.0% | |
| Net margin | 0.0% | 0.7% | |
| Interest cover | 0.49x | 2.77x |
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
- ESH INVESTMENTS LIMITED 2014-12-17 → present
- CROSSCO (1383) LIMITED 2014-10-29 → 2014-12-17
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 prepare and review rolling forecasts, for a period beyond 36 months. Review of these, and after making further detailed enquiries, taking into account the factors discussed above, they have a reasonable expectation that both the Parent Company and Group have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and accordingly continue to prepare the Parent Company and Group financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- ESH INVESTMENTS LIMITED · parent
- ABC Rental Properties Limited 100%
- Boathouse Lane Projects Limited 100%
- Border Construction (Holdings) Limited 100%
- Border Construction Limited 100%
- David Wilkinson Building Contractors Limited 100%
- Dunelm (Bowburn) Limited 100%
- Dunelm Homes (Seaham) Limited 100%
- Dunelm Homes Limited 100%
- Dunelm National Projects Limited 100%
- Dunelm Property Services Limited 100%
- Esh Acorn Homes Limited 100%
- Esh Construction Limited 100%
- Esh Developments Limited 100%
- Esh EBT Trustee Limited 100%
- Esh Holdings Limited 100%
- Esh Homes Limited 100%
- Esh Remedios Limited 51%
- J Tonks (Transport) Limited 100%
- Lumsden & Carroll Limited 100%
- Remedios Limited 75%
- Stephen Easten Building Limited 100%
- Tonks Recycling Limited 100%
- Tursdale Business Park Limited 53.5%
- Tursdale Recycling Limited 100%
- Wilkinson Facilities Services Limited 100%
- Boathouse Lane (Freehold) Limited 50%
- Eastbourne JV Limited 50%
- Esh Energy Limited 49%
- Esh Stantec Ltd 50%
- Esh Salutation Road Limited 50%
- Heighington JV Limited 50%
- West Park JV Limited 50%
- Middleton St George JV Limited 50%
- Prestige Exclusive Homes Limited 50%
- Neasham Road JV Ltd 50%
- Philadelphia Estates Limited 30%
- Philadelphia Properties Limited 30%
- Speed 8767 Limited 30%
- Esh Space The Park Limited 15%
- M62 Developments Limited 43%
Significant events
- “Cost inflation had subsided quite markedly towards the end of 2023, allowing a more predictable backdrop for bidding and pricing work, with our efforts in previous years to move towards a greater proportion of negotiated, two-stage and cost reimbursable contracts leading to a greater degree of optimism around margin stabilisation.”
- “The group ended the year with its highest level of liquidity in its history. Net cash of £36m was reported at year end, which when added together with committed £6m undrawn credit line, gives total liquidity of £42m.”
- “This improvement in earnings and capital management provided the board with the confidence to resume payment of dividends, with a £3.2m F-ordinary voting dividend paid, the first F-ordinary voting dividend paid since 2018, alongside a £0.4m A-ordinary non-voting dividend.”
- “The board also redeemed £750k of the A-ordinary non-voting share capital.”
- “The group is underpinned by a record order book, which at the time of writing, contains visibility on contracts worth over £2bn.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAW, Alistair | Secretary | 2021-01-31 | — | — |
| BROWN, Philip James | Director | 2020-09-21 | Nov 1970 | British |
| CARROLL, Anthony John | Director | 2022-04-25 | Nov 1962 | British |
| COATES, Philip Sydney | Director | 2017-05-15 | Jul 1955 | British |
| HOGAN, Michael Francis | Director | 2015-03-13 | Oct 1944 | British |
| LUMSDEN, John George | Director | 2017-10-26 | Oct 1968 | British |
| RADCLIFFE, Andrew Edward | Director | 2015-04-07 | Dec 1973 | British |
| WILKIE, Stephen Thomas | Director | 2020-09-21 | Jan 1971 | British |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOWERBY, Mark | Secretary | 2018-01-29 | 2021-01-31 |
| CARROLL, Anthony John | Director | 2015-04-07 | 2022-04-25 |
| DAVIES, John Peter | Director | 2015-04-07 | 2019-07-12 |
| LUMSDEN, John George | Director | 2015-04-07 | 2017-10-26 |
| MANNING, Brian | Director | 2015-04-07 | 2017-04-28 |
| MUNN, Margaret Patricia | Director | 2015-11-05 | 2018-07-19 |
| PASS, James Henry | Director | 2014-10-29 | 2015-03-13 |
| SOWERBY, Mark Andrew | Director | 2018-01-17 | 2021-01-31 |
| WALKER, John Robert | Director | 2015-04-07 | 2017-09-30 |
| WATSON, Paul Garth | Director | 2020-09-21 | 2022-04-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vestbrown (Esh) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 87 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-08-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-05-28 | SH02 | capital | Capital alter shares redemption statement of capital | |
| 2024-10-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-07-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-06-18 | SH02 | capital | Capital alter shares redemption statement of capital | |
| 2023-11-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-11-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-08-03 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-08-03 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-08-03 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-12-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-05-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-05-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-05-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-02-15 | SH02 | capital | Capital alter shares redemption statement of capital | |
| 2021-11-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-10-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-07-15 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 1
- 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.