MERCEDES-BENZ UK LIMITED

A subsidiary of the German automotive manufacturer Mercedes-Benz, the company acts as the principal distributor and retailer of new cars and light motor vehicles in the United Kingdom.

#02448457 · Active · Incorporated 1989-12-01 (36y 10m) · Last filing 2026-08-21 (2mo ago)

Consumer Discretionary · SIC 45111 · G Wholesale & Retail Trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles · Full accounts

Accounts due 2027-09-30 (in 12 months) · Confirmation due 2027-07-16 (in 9 months) · No watchouts on the register

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Cash

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Latest balance sheet

Net assets

£259m

-14.4% vs 2024

Employees

731

-4.8% vs 2024

Profit before tax

£15m

-84.8% lowest in 3 filed years

Net assets

3-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median

MERCEDES-BENZ UK LIMITED·Consumer Discretionary median · n=16805

Accounts

3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31

Metric	2023-12-31	2024-12-31	2025-12-31	Δ vs prior
Turnover	£4,488,822,000	£4,838,754,000	£4,594,582,000	-5%
Operating profit	£90,820,000	£129,031,000	£56,584,000	-56.1%
Profit before tax	£62,774,000	£101,664,000	£15,466,000	-84.8%
Net profit	£44,525,000	£73,955,000	£21,746,000	-70.6%
Cash	—	—	—	—
Total assets less current liabilities	£696,941,000	£1,048,480,000	£1,058,172,000	+0.9%
Net assets	£237,108,000	£301,987,000	£258,635,000	-14.4%
Equity	£237,108,000	£301,987,000	£258,635,000	-14.4%
Average employees	570	768	731	-4.8%
Wages	£34,970,000	£44,371,000	£42,531,000	-4.1%
Directors' remuneration	£1,966,000	£1,950,000	£1,157,000	-40.7%
Directors' pension contributions	—	£0	£0	—
Highest paid director	£1,232,000	£1,043,000	£691,000	-33.7%

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	2023-12-31	2024-12-31	2025-12-31
Operating margin	2.0%	2.7%	1.2%
Net margin	1.0%	1.5%	0.5%
Return on capital employed	13.0%	12.3%	5.3%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets)	89.0%	86.7%	89.2%
Current ratio	1.06x	1.09x	1.08x
Interest cover	2.79x	3.89x	1.21x

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 5 times since incorporation

MERCEDES-BENZ UK LIMITED 2023-07-04 → present
MERCEDES-BENZ CARS UK LIMITED 2017-01-03 → 2023-07-04
MERCEDES-BENZ UK LIMITED 2007-11-01 → 2017-01-03
DAIMLERCHRYSLER UK LIMITED 1999-11-22 → 2007-11-01
MERCEDES-BENZ (UNITED KINGDOM) LIMITED 1990-01-01 → 1999-11-22
MERCEDES-BENZ UK 1989 LIMITED 1989-12-01 → 1990-01-01

Audit & accounting basis

Accounting basis: FRS 101
Reporting scope: Standalone (parent only)
Auditor: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Audit opinion: Unqualified (clean)
Going concern: Affirmed
“Consequently, the directors are confident that the Company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”

Group structure

MERCEDES-BENZ UK LIMITED · parent
1. Mercedes-Benz UK Trustees Limited 100% · England · Pension funding
2. Mercedes-Benz Brooklands Limited 100% · England · Property management

Significant events

“The most significant to us is widely publicised class action against automotive manufacturers, in relation to diesel car emissions. The Company is subject of such a class action.”
“The Pension Schemes Act. 2026, which received Royal Assent in April 2026, introduces a statutory mechanism that allows pension scheme trustees to retrospectively validate certain past amendments where required actuarial confirmation was not obtained at the time.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

4 active · 58 resigned

Name	Role	Appointed	Born	Nationality
LIPMAN, Jonathan Philip Reuben	Secretary	2014-01-10	—	—
BREITSCHWERDT, Marcus Werner	Director	2011-04-01	Nov 1961	German
PIPPERGER, Wolfgang	Director	2023-09-01	Mar 1972	German
REPPERT, Olivier Henri Georges	Director	2024-03-01	Dec 1974	French

Show 58 resigned officers

Name	Role	Appointed	Resigned
EVANS, Chrissi Roberta	Secretary	2002-01-01	2006-02-01
LARKINS, Iain Paul	Secretary	2006-02-01	2013-08-30
REINERT, Karl	Secretary	—	1996-09-01
SMART, Frederick Bryan	Secretary	1996-09-01	2002-01-01
BASTERT, Ulrich	Director	2007-04-01	2015-08-19
BREITSCHWERDT, Werner, Professor Dr	Director	—	1993-07-02
BRUCKNER, Siegfried	Director	1994-07-12	1995-10-29
BURKHART, Andreas	Director	2009-09-01	2013-01-15
COPPENS, Daniel	Director	1995-09-29	1999-06-02
CORDES, Eckhard	Director	2004-11-01	2005-08-31
DE FILIPPIS, Benito	Director	1999-03-19	2001-09-30
DIEZ, Wolfgang	Director	1994-07-12	1995-10-29
EBERHARDT, Joachim	Director	1999-11-12	2003-07-01
END, Matthias	Director	2014-03-24	2017-01-01
FIETZEK, Peter	Director	—	1994-07-12
FRITZ, Adolf-Heinz, Dr	Director	—	1991-12-31
GORGELS, Josef	Director	1994-07-12	1995-10-29
GOTTSCHALK, Bernd, Dr	Director	1992-07-10	1994-07-12
HALATA, Paul	Director	1995-09-29	1999-11-12
HENN, Harald, Dr	Director	2018-12-01	2023-11-30
HERZOG, Eberhart	Director	—	1992-09-01
HOPPE, Heinz	Director	—	1994-06-12
HUBBERT, Jurgen, Prof	Director	2000-01-04	2004-10-31
HUBBERT, Jurgen	Director	—	1994-07-12
HUTANI, Tina	Director	2017-01-01	2018-11-30
KOHLMANN, Herbert	Director	1994-07-12	1995-10-29
KRAMPE, Erich	Director	1992-09-01	1996-06-30
LAIDLAW, Christopher Charles Fraser, Sir	Director	—	1993-12-31
LECHNER, Werner	Director	—	1992-07-10
LIEBLER, Arthur Cyril	Director	1999-07-01	2001-07-17
LIENER, Gerhard, Dr	Director	—	1995-07-25
LOPEZ SCHUMMER TREVINO, Jose Luis	Director	2007-01-01	2009-08-31
MAIER, Klaus	Director	2013-01-15	2017-01-01
MAIER, Klaus	Director	2013-01-15	2013-01-15
MAIER, Klaus, Dr	Director	2005-04-01	2009-09-30
MANHEIM, Frank	Director	—	1993-12-31
MURPHY, George E	Director	2001-07-18	2007-05-31
NIEFER, Werner Wilhelm, Professor Dr	Director	1992-07-10	1993-09-19
OBERWOERDER, Till	Director	2015-08-19	2017-01-01
REINTJES, Frank, Dr	Director	2002-03-31	2007-03-31
REMMEL, Manfred	Director	1992-07-10	1994-07-12
ROBERTS, Frank Kenyon, Sir	Director	—	1993-12-31
SAVAGE, Gary Mark	Director	2014-03-24	2024-03-31
SCHMIDT, Joachim, Dr	Director	2009-10-12	2013-12-31
SCHMIDT, Joachim, Doctor	Director	1995-09-29	2005-04-01
SMART, Frederick Bryan	Director	2002-01-01	2006-09-30
STEFFEN, Wilfried	Director	2003-07-01	2011-03-31
TAUSCHER, Hans	Director	—	1997-12-31
TEMPEL, Hans	Director	1999-07-01	2002-03-31
TRETTIN, Peter Alexander	Director	2001-10-01	2006-12-31
TROPITZSCH, Heiner	Director	—	1993-07-02
WALKER, Jurgen	Director	1994-07-12	1999-03-19
WALKER, Ulrich Wilfried Gerhard	Director	1997-09-05	1999-03-19
WERNER, Helmut	Director	—	1994-07-12
WESP, Peter, Vice President	Director	1999-03-19	1999-06-02
WILLIAMSON, Andrew Miles	Director	2006-11-01	2014-01-31
ZETSCHE, Dieter, Doctor	Director	1995-09-29	2000-01-04
ZIMMER, Horst	Director	1993-07-02	1994-07-12

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name	Kind	Nature of control	Notified	Status
Daimler Uk Limited	Corporate entity	Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors, Significant influence	2016-04-06	Ceased 2022-02-01
Mercedes-Benz Holdings Uk Limited	Corporate entity	Shares 75–100%, Appoints directors	2016-04-06	Active

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 233 total filings

Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution

2024-01-21 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
2024-01-21 MA Memorandum articles
2024-01-15 CC04 Statement of companys objects
2023-07-04 CERTNM Certificate change of name company

Date	Type	Category	Description
2026-08-21	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2026-07-10	PSC05	persons-with-significant-control	Change to a person with significant control	PDF
2026-07-04	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2025-10-07	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2025-07-21	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with updates	PDF
2025-03-06	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2024-07-17	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2024-06-01	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2024-04-03	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2024-03-07	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2024-01-21	RESOLUTIONS	resolution	Resolution
2024-01-21	MA	incorporation	Memorandum articles
2024-01-15	CC04	change-of-constitution	Statement of companys objects
2023-12-01	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2023-09-01	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2023-07-24	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with updates	PDF
2023-07-04	CERTNM	change-of-name	Certificate change of name company
2023-05-31	SH01	capital	Capital allotment shares	PDF
2023-01-06	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2022-07-18	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with updates	PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings: 4
Capital events: 0
Officers appointed: 0
Officers resigned: 0

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

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