SHEPHERD NEAME LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-03-31 (in 10mo)
Last filed for 2025-06-28
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-13 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-30
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
+207.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£182M
+0.4% vs 2024
Employees
2,295
-1.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£6M
-7.9% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-06-28
| Metric | Trend | 2024-06-29 | 2025-06-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £172,291,000 | £164,302,000 | |
| Operating profit | £11,719,000 | £13,744,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £6,833,000 | £6,292,000 | |
| Net profit | £4,871,000 | £5,374,000 | |
| Cash | £1,444,000 | £4,445,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £332,962,000 | £329,488,000 | |
| Net assets | £180,807,000 | £181,516,000 | |
| Equity | £180,807,000 | £181,516,000 | |
| Average employees | 2,334 | 2,295 | |
| Wages | £38,518,000 | £37,947,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £730,000 | £700,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-06-28 vs 2024-06-29
-
Turnover
-4.6%
£172,291,000 £164,302,000
-
Cash
+207.8%
£1,444,000 £4,445,000
-
Net assets
+0.4%
£180,807,000 £181,516,000
-
Employees
-1.7%
2,334 2,295
-
Operating profit
+17.3%
£11,719,000 £13,744,000
-
Profit before tax
-7.9%
£6,833,000 £6,292,000
-
Wages
-1.5%
£38,518,000 £37,947,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-06-29 | 2025-06-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 6.8% | 8.4% | |
| Net margin | 2.8% | 3.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 3.5% | 4.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 50.4% | 49.8% | |
| Current ratio | 0.94x | 0.80x | |
| Interest cover | 1.91x | 2.24x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors have set out their basis for assessing going concern in notes to the financial statements and have concluded that it is appropriate for the going concern basis of preparation to be adopted.”
Group structure
- SHEPHERD NEAME LIMITED · parent
- Shepherd Neame (Trustees) Limited 100%
- SN Finance plc 100%
- Thomas Grant & Sons Limited 100%
- Todd Vintners Limited 50%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 27 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RALPH, Peter David | Secretary | 2025-12-01 | — | — |
| BARNES, George Harold Abbott | Director | 2001-01-29 | Jul 1954 | British |
| BRETT, William John | Director | 2013-09-12 | Apr 1965 | British |
| BUNTING, Nigel James | Director | 2005-08-03 | Jun 1967 | British |
| LUSTMAN, Margaret Eve | Director | 2025-04-01 | Aug 1962 | British |
| NEAME, Jonathan Beale | Director | 1993-10-29 | Jan 1964 | British |
| OLDFIELD, Richard John | Director | 2016-06-23 | Oct 1955 | British |
| RIDER, Mark John | Director | 2012-02-28 | Mar 1976 | British |
| SEARS, Marion Jane | Director | 2025-04-01 | Sep 1962 | British |
Show 27 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARNES, George Harold Abbott | Secretary | 1994-07-03 | 2004-09-07 |
| CORK, Bernard John | Secretary | — | 1992-11-12 |
| DUNCAN, Robin Neil | Secretary | 2013-11-27 | 2020-12-04 |
| FLANAGAN, Mary Ann Glenda | Secretary | 2020-12-04 | 2025-12-01 |
| LESTER, Frances Joan | Secretary | 2004-09-07 | 2013-11-27 |
| NEAME, Jonathan Beale | Secretary | 1992-07-22 | 1994-07-03 |
| BARNES, Oliver William Abbott | Director | 2005-10-28 | 2016-06-30 |
| BENTLEY, Peter John | Director | 1995-01-27 | 2001-10-26 |
| BUNTING, Martin Brian | Director | — | 2004-09-23 |
| CRAIG, Graeme Robert | Director | 2006-07-01 | 2017-09-22 |
| DIXON, Ian Jefferson | Director | 2000-03-01 | 2008-07-24 |
| FALCON, Thomas William | Director | 2008-07-24 | 2013-12-31 |
| FRASER, Angus Hugh | Director | 1992-11-06 | 1994-12-12 |
| GEORGEL, Kevin Roger | Director | 2020-11-27 | 2025-03-31 |
| JOHNSTON, Euan Ronald | Director | — | 2000-10-27 |
| KIMMINS, Malcolm Brian Johnston | Director | 1999-10-29 | 2005-10-28 |
| LEIGH PEMBERTON, James Henry | Director | 2004-09-23 | 2016-09-08 |
| LITTLEFAIR, Kenneth Robert | Director | 2000-04-17 | 2012-02-29 |
| MANN, Rodney | Director | 1995-10-27 | 1998-10-30 |
| MCJENNETT, Mark John | Director | 2000-03-01 | 2005-08-03 |
| NEAME, Robert Harry Beale | Director | — | 2006-06-30 |
| NEAME, Stuart Fraser Beale | Director | — | 2003-10-29 |
| NICOL, Randall Lewis | Director | 2003-11-25 | 2013-09-12 |
| RIVA, Hilary Susan | Director | 2016-04-04 | 2025-03-31 |
| RUDGARD, Edward Michael Sutton | Director | — | 1992-11-06 |
| SWAINE, Jonathon David | Director | 2022-06-28 | 2025-04-17 |
| TEMPLEMAN, Miles Howard | Director | 2002-03-01 | 2020-12-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 241 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-12-01 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-01-20 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2026-02-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-01-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-11 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-11 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-12-01 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-05-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-13 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-03-13 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-03-03 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-03-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-03-03 | ANNOTATION | miscellaneous | Legacy | |
| 2025-03-03 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-02-18 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-02-18 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-01-20 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 6
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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.