CECIL MACDONALD & CO LIMITED
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Cash
£6.5m
-5.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£9.7m
+4.9% highest in 3 filed years
Employees
34
+13.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£4.5m
+13% highest in 3 filed years
Watch the reel
Our short-form breakdown of CECIL MACDONALD & CO LIMITED's latest filing
Duty-free distributor Cecil Macdonald held sales flat at £80m, but operating profit ticked up to £4.1m. The big shift? A massive cut to boardroom pay, paired with a £2.8m dividend payout. ✈️🥂
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £65,556,771 | £81,330,785 | £80,156,135 | -1.4% | |
| Operating profit | £2,433,370 | £3,670,259 | £4,185,217 | +14% | |
| Profit before tax | £2,559,044 | £3,942,520 | £4,456,326 | +13% | |
| Net profit | £1,849,831 | £3,037,250 | £3,337,832 | +9.9% | |
| Cash | £2,596,790 | £6,910,132 | £6,509,184 | -5.8% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £8,225,677 | £9,408,080 | £9,865,993 | +4.9% | |
| Net assets | £7,992,681 | £9,243,674 | £9,693,090 | +4.9% | |
| Equity | £7,992,681 | £9,243,674 | £9,693,090 | +4.9% | |
| Average employees | 39 | 30 | 34 | +13.3% | |
| Wages | £2,324,169 | £2,294,483 | £1,696,148 | -26.1% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £1,058,000 | £765,000 | £220,000 | -71.2% | |
| Directors' pension contributions | £20,000 | £20,000 | £20,000 | 0% | |
| Highest paid director | £568,000 | £423,333 | £120,000 | -71.7% |
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 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.7% | 4.5% | 5.2% | |
| Net margin | 2.8% | 3.7% | 4.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 29.6% | 39.0% | 42.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 52.6% | 54.0% | 51.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.76x | 1.79x | 1.90x |
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
- Brewers Chartered Accountants
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis; the Directors have considered the basis of accounting in light of the strength of the Group Balance Sheet and consider that the adoption of the going concern principle is still appropriate.”
Group structure
- CECIL MACDONALD & CO LIMITED · parent
- Ambassadors Choice Limited 100%
- D.F. Warehouses Limited 100%
- CMD Hotels & Catering Limited 100%
Significant events
- “By the year end the assets and trading activities of D.F. Warehouse Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary, were transferred to Cecil Macdonald & Co Limited, the parent, in order to simplify the group structure and centralise operations.”
- “CMD Hotels & Catering Limited ... The company was dissolved on 27 January 2026.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOULD, Deborah | Secretary | 1998-10-28 | — | British |
| DICKINSON GREEN, Jane | Director | 2026-07-01 | Aug 1968 | British |
| HAWKINS, Mark Antony | Director | 2026-07-01 | Jun 1972 | British |
| SANKEY, Gordon Ian | Director | 1994-12-09 | Aug 1959 | British |
| WADIA, Nicholas Stuart | Director | 2026-07-01 | Jan 1972 | British |
| WESCOTT, Michael Robert | Director | 2026-07-01 | Jul 1990 | British |
| WESCOTT, Stephen Robert | Director | — | Jul 1959 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUTTY, Helen Easton | Secretary | — | 1998-04-09 |
| SANKEY, Gordon Ian | Secretary | 1998-04-09 | 1998-10-28 |
| HUTTY, Helen Easton | Director | — | 1998-04-09 |
| KINGTON, Tim Mark | Director | 2011-09-01 | 2020-06-30 |
| SAMPSON, Richard Alexander | Director | 2011-09-01 | 2014-12-31 |
| SANKEY, Barbara Violet | Director | — | 1994-12-09 |
| SANKEY, John Ernest | Director | — | 2018-02-09 |
| SMART, Barry Howard | Director | 2018-02-09 | 2020-03-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Stephen Robert Wescott | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2023-01-31 | Active |
| Mr Barry Howard Smart | Individual | Shares 50–75% (as trust) | 2018-02-09 | Ceased 2023-01-31 |
| Mr Gordon Ian Sankey | Individual | Shares 50–75% (as trust) | 2018-02-09 | Active |
| Mr John Ernest Sankey | Individual | Shares 50–75% | 2016-07-01 | Ceased 2018-02-09 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 151 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-07-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-07-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-07-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-07-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-07-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-09-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-05-07 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-03-14 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-08-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-03-07 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-03-06 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-03-06 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-03-02 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2023-02-14 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2022-10-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 4
- 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.