FENTIMANS LTD.

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  4 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

• ◆

  1 PSC ceased in last 24 months

  Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.

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

• Turnover

  -8.5%

  £38,989,312 → £35,671,717

• Cash

  +377.5%

  £344,791 → £1,646,401

• Net assets

  +63.8%

  £1,524,565 → £2,496,876

• Employees

  -14.9%

  67 → 57

• Operating profit

  +1,330.5%

  £97,153 → £1,389,821

• Profit before tax

  +314.1%

  -£655,708 → £1,403,622

• Wages

  -0.2%

  £3,866,875 → £3,859,119

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

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.

1. FENTIMANS LTD. 1994-12-14 → present
2. DOWER HOUSE LIMITED 1994-09-13 → 1994-12-14

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Armstrong Watson Audit Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Consequently, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group and Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Therefore, the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. FENTIMANS LTD. · parent
   1. Fentimans USA, Inc 100% · US · Sale of botanically brewed beverages

Significant events

• “Group delivered £39.6m of Gross Sales... posted a creditable, reported Profit before tax of £1.4m, an improvement of over £2.0m on the prior year.”
• “Gross sales (before promotional credits) for the year under review amounted to £39.6m; a decrease of 7.7% on 2023 gross sales of £42.9m.”
• “The Group took the opportunity over the last 12 months to successfully transition several key distributors with the aim of positioning the business for sustainable long-term growth.”
• “Group Net assets increased to £2.5m at the end of 2024, with Company Net assets rising to £5.1m. The Directors are pleased to report a strong improvement in net cash / (bank overdraft) balances at year end of £1.4m.”
• “One notable development that the Group must contend with in 2025 is significant regulatory change in the form of the incoming Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation and Packaging Recycling Note (PRN) reform within its UK sales channel.”

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

Filings

17

last 12 months

Capital events

3

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

4

last 12 months

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