HAWKES LIMITED
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Cash
£2.5m
+74.1% highest in 3 filed years
Net assets
£15m
+15.9% highest in 3 filed years
Employees
25
-3.8% lowest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£4.1m
-14.9% vs 2024
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Consumer Staples 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 | £15,859,419 | £14,900,726 | £14,987,405 | +0.6% | |
| Operating profit | £3,631,754 | £3,551,492 | £3,485,849 | -1.8% | |
| Profit before tax | £4,033,926 | £4,767,046 | £4,054,632 | -14.9% | |
| Net profit | £3,331,010 | £4,040,715 | £3,096,244 | -23.4% | |
| Cash | £2,242,337 | £1,436,857 | £2,501,160 | +74.1% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £10,361,614 | £13,449,361 | £15,598,865 | +16% | |
| Net assets | £10,170,640 | £13,211,355 | £15,307,599 | +15.9% | |
| Equity | £10,170,640 | £13,211,355 | £15,307,599 | +15.9% | |
| Average employees | 26 | 26 | 25 | -3.8% | |
| Wages | £1,126,202 | £1,146,978 | £1,224,275 | +6.7% | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | — | — |
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 | 22.9% | 23.8% | 23.3% | |
| Net margin | 21.0% | 27.1% | 20.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 35.1% | 26.4% | 22.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 58.9% | 53.6% | 51.9% | |
| Current ratio | 0.37x | 0.36x | 0.39x | |
| Interest cover | — | — | 89.92x |
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 2 times since incorporation
- HAWKES LIMITED 2002-05-13 → present
- HAWKES AND WARDLE LIMITED 1980-12-31 → 2002-05-13
- ASWARDBY MILL LIMITED 1959-03-18 → 1980-12-31
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Saul Fairholm Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least 12 months”
Group structure
- HAWKES LIMITED · parent
- Hawkes Farms Limited 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HAWKES, Roger William | Secretary | — | — | British |
| HAWKES, Roger William | Director | — | Apr 1942 | British |
| HAWKES, Simon Roger | Director | 2002-04-19 | May 1967 | British |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| WARDLE, Eric Rowland | Director | — | 2002-04-18 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Roger William Hawkes | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 106 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-10-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-26 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-10-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-10-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-09-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-10-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2018-10-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2018-09-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2018-01-04 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2018-01-04 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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.