MARDEN EDWARDS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-01-31 (in 8mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-14 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-11-30
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£6M
+942.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£5M
+5.8% vs 2024
Employees
104
-32% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£283K
-54.2% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-04-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £21,835,667 | £14,387,650 | |
| Operating profit | £637,656 | £352,061 | |
| Profit before tax | £616,876 | £282,710 | |
| Net profit | £616,876 | £282,710 | |
| Cash | £589,310 | £6,145,446 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,834,973 | £5,117,683 | |
| Net assets | £4,834,973 | £5,117,683 | |
| Equity | £4,834,973 | £5,117,683 | |
| Average employees | 153 | 104 | |
| Wages | £6,507,174 | £4,388,984 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £503,455 | £473,772 |
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 2025-04-30 vs 2024-04-30
-
Turnover
-34.1%
£21,835,667 £14,387,650
-
Cash
+942.8%
£589,310 £6,145,446
-
Net assets
+5.8%
£4,834,973 £5,117,683
-
Employees
-32%
153 104
-
Operating profit
-44.8%
£637,656 £352,061
-
Profit before tax
-54.2%
£616,876 £282,710
-
Wages
-32.6%
£6,507,174 £4,388,984
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 | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 2.9% | 2.4% | |
| Net margin | 2.8% | 2.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 13.2% | 6.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 50.6% | 63.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.89x | 1.54x | |
| Interest cover | 29.54x | 4.81x |
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
- MARDEN EDWARDS LIMITED 1996-05-13 → present
- COMB PLUCKERS LIMITED 1931-04-21 → 1996-05-13
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PKF Francis Clark
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“It is our assessment that the Company will be able to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least a period of 12 months from approval of these financial statements and hence these financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- MARDEN EDWARDS LIMITED · parent
- Marden Edwards Inc. 0%
- Wraps (UK) Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Turnover decreased by 34.1%, from £21.84m to £14.39m, and the pre-tax profit of £0.283m was a decrease of £0.334m on the previous year's pre-tax profit of £0.617m”
- “the business has remained profitable due to continued success focusing on higher margin market sectors together with a comprehensive and sustained effort to reduce costs.”
- “There is a determination to reduce establishment costs substantially by renting out the substantial building currently occupied and moving to a smaller, more affordable premises better suited to the knowledge based, distributed business that Marden Edwards has now become.”
- “The first half of FY 25/26 has been positive, and our forward order book continues to be strong.”
- “Marden Edwards Inc. ceased trading in the year.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDWARDS, Jonathan Leighton | Secretary | 2006-11-21 | — | British |
| AIMSON, David Anthony | Director | 2010-05-01 | Dec 1968 | British |
| EDWARDS, Jonathan Leighton | Director | — | Mar 1961 | British |
| HANNAM, Simon Lawrence | Director | 2020-10-01 | Mar 1968 | British |
| MARDEN, Jeremy Bryan | Director | — | Jun 1964 | British |
| MOORE, Wayne Kelvin Lawrence | Director | 2017-09-21 | Nov 1964 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIGOTT, Lorraine | Secretary | 1997-02-28 | 2002-05-01 |
| WOLVERSON, Diane Ellen | Secretary | 2002-05-01 | 2006-11-21 |
| CBJ SECURITIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | — | 1997-02-28 |
| BUSHBY, Thomas Albert | Director | — | 2002-12-04 |
| EDWARDS, Gordon Marshall | Director | — | 2000-04-30 |
| GRANGER, Christopher Paul | Director | 2000-04-27 | 2005-08-23 |
| MARDEN, Bryan Ernest | Director | — | 2000-04-30 |
| MARSH, James Frederick David, Dr | Director | 2002-12-04 | 2017-09-21 |
| PATEY, Michael Anthony | Director | 2006-01-01 | 2021-05-01 |
| PIGOTT, Lorraine | Director | 2002-09-02 | 2006-03-31 |
| PIGOTT, Lorraine | Director | 1994-07-12 | 2002-08-23 |
| WOLVERSON, Diane Ellen | Director | 2004-05-20 | 2006-06-23 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Audrey Ethel Marden | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-11-23 |
| Mr Gordon Marshall Edwards | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-02-16 |
| Mr Jonathan Leighton Edwards | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Active |
| Mr Jeremy Bryan Marden | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 156 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-02-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-12-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-11-30 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2021-11-30 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2021-05-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-02-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-12-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-10-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-01-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-12-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-01-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2018-12-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
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.