FENWICK,LIMITED
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Cash
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Latest balance sheet
Net assets
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Equity attributable
Employees
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Average over period
Profit before tax
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Period ending 2026-01-30
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Our short-form breakdown of FENWICK,LIMITED's latest filing
Fenwick filed its latest accounts showing £179m in turnover, but heavy discounting and a tough retail environment pushed the department store chain to a £23.4m operating loss. 🛍️
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2026-01-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-26 | 2025-01-31 | 2026-01-30 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £180,448,000 | £177,029,000 | £179,184,000 | — | |
| Operating profit | -£66,001,000 | -£43,738,000 | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | -£58,902,000 | -£38,755,000 | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£60,271,000 | -£38,808,000 | — | — | |
| Cash | £177,303,000 | £83,642,000 | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £616,528,000 | £513,666,000 | — | — | |
| Net assets | £406,648,000 | £364,922,000 | — | — | |
| Equity | £406,648,000 | £364,922,000 | — | — | |
| Average employees | 1,569 | 1,555 | — | — | |
| Wages | £57,583,000 | £55,951,000 | — | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | £2,122,000 | £2,156,000 | — | — | |
| Directors' pension contributions | £32,000 | £29,000 | — | — | |
| Highest paid director | £636,000 | £751,000 | — | — |
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 | 2024-01-26 | 2025-01-31 | 2026-01-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -36.6% | -24.7% | — | |
| Net margin | -33.4% | -21.9% | — | |
| Return on capital employed | -10.7% | -8.5% | — | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 38.5% | 35.0% | — | |
| Current ratio | 11.11x | 8.52x | — | |
| Interest cover | -21.91x | -14.52x | — |
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
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis The Group's forecasts and projections for the next twelve months show that the group should be able to continue in operational existence for that period, taking into account reasonable possible changes in trading performance”
Group structure
- FENWICK,LIMITED · parent
- Bentalls Plc 100%
- Bentalls Property Company Limited 100%
- Fenwick of Bond Street Limited 100%
- Fenwick of Leicester Limited 100%
- Fenwick of Newcastle Limited 100%
- HE Williams & Co Limited 100%
- Mary Lee Limited 100%
- Ricemans (Canterbury) Limited 100%
- Ricemans (Holdings) Limited 100%
- Ricemans Limited 100%
- Williams & Griffin Limited 100%
- Fenwick Property Holdings Limited 100%
- Fenwick 141 Limited 100%
Significant events
- “2025 marked the first full period under the leadership changes initiated in 2024”
- “The Executive Team reorganisation, introduced alongside the transition to the new online platform, has now fully bedded in”
- “2025 was a pivotal year for Fenwick's customer strategy The migration of the Fenwick website to the Shopify platform created, for the first time in the Company's history, a single customer view across both physical stores and online channels”
- “On 2 February 2023, the Group paid a special employer contribution into the Superannuation Fund of £39 95 million”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 29 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERS, Jill | Secretary | 2000-09-25 | — | British |
| FENWICK, Hugo Mark | Director | 2017-12-01 | Dec 1964 | British |
| FENWICK, Mia Rose | Director | 2017-12-01 | Apr 1978 | British |
| SHEEHY, Bernard | Director | 2022-10-10 | Feb 1965 | Irish |
| WESTERMAN, Sian Eleri | Director | 2019-03-01 | Nov 1962 | British |
Show 29 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIXON, Ian James | Secretary | — | 2000-05-19 |
| OVERTOOM, Franciscus Johannes Carolus | Secretary | 2009-09-08 | 2009-09-08 |
| BARBER, Stephen David | Director | 2017-02-01 | 2021-06-24 |
| BEVAN, Richard Lloyd | Director | 2008-04-16 | 2008-06-02 |
| CALVER, Simon John | Director | 2021-05-01 | 2024-03-31 |
| CROSS, Christine | Director | 2014-10-20 | 2018-05-24 |
| DIXON, Ian James | Director | 1999-08-31 | 2000-05-19 |
| DOYLE, Andrew James | Director | 2018-09-27 | 2020-04-01 |
| DRACOU, Karen | Director | 2019-12-09 | 2022-09-30 |
| EDGAR, John Peter | Director | 2020-04-01 | 2024-07-31 |
| FEATHER, Robert | Director | 2018-01-15 | 2020-04-01 |
| FENWICK, Christopher Mark | Director | — | 1999-08-31 |
| FENWICK, Hugo Mark | Director | 1999-08-31 | 2017-10-04 |
| FENWICK, James Frederick | Director | — | 2016-10-31 |
| FENWICK, John Andrew | Director | 1999-08-31 | 2016-10-31 |
| FENWICK, John | Director | — | 1997-06-12 |
| FENWICK, John James | Director | — | 2013-05-02 |
| FENWICK, Mark Anthony | Director | — | 2017-08-04 |
| FENWICK, Nicholas Adam Hodnett | Director | 1999-08-31 | 2017-08-11 |
| FENWICK, Peter Trevor | Director | — | 2009-05-14 |
| KERR, Alastair Gibson | Director | 2014-10-20 | 2016-10-31 |
| KING, Peter Derek | Director | 2016-09-12 | 2018-09-14 |
| LEGG, Jeffrey Philip | Director | — | 1996-12-04 |
| MARCHBANK, Michael Havelock | Director | — | 1994-10-14 |
| OVERTOOM, Franciscus Johannes Carolus | Director | 2009-09-08 | 2011-12-31 |
| PENMAN, David Magnus | Director | — | 1993-09-30 |
| PENNYCOOK, Richard John | Director | 2017-02-14 | 2020-04-01 |
| QUINN, Francis William | Director | — | 2003-10-09 |
| SMITH, Alan | Director | 1995-05-01 | 2008-04-16 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fenwick 1882 Limited | Corporate entity | Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2022-12-14 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 172 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-12-14 MA Memorandum articles
- 2022-12-14 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-06-06 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2026-06-06 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2026-05-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-10-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-04-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-10-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-04-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-19 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-05-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-12-20 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-12-20 | PSC09 | persons-with-significant-control | Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2022-12-14 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-12-14 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-10-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-10-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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