SUSIE WATSON DESIGNS LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-27 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-02-13
Watchouts
Cash
£3M
+17.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£9M
+10.5% vs 2024
Employees
102
+10.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£1M
-24.9% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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2 PSCs ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £10,170,242 | £10,040,917 | |
| Operating profit | £1,584,132 | £1,194,573 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,526,950 | £1,146,683 | |
| Net profit | £1,083,286 | £829,794 | |
| Cash | £2,634,719 | £3,104,532 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £8,731,023 | £9,487,067 | |
| Net assets | £7,869,181 | £8,698,974 | |
| Equity | £7,869,181 | £8,698,974 | |
| Average employees | 92 | 102 | |
| Wages | £2,474,420 | £2,544,905 | |
| 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. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
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Turnover
-1.3%
£10,170,242 £10,040,917
-
Cash
+17.8%
£2,634,719 £3,104,532
-
Net assets
+10.5%
£7,869,181 £8,698,974
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Employees
+10.9%
92 102
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Operating profit
-24.6%
£1,584,132 £1,194,573
-
Profit before tax
-24.9%
£1,526,950 £1,146,683
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Wages
+2.8%
£2,474,420 £2,544,905
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 15.6% | 11.9% | |
| Net margin | 10.7% | 8.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 18.1% | 12.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.57x | 1.83x | |
| Interest cover | 26.60x | 22.22x |
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
- SUSIE WATSON DESIGNS LTD 2000-02-09 → present
- SUSIE WATSON DESIGN LIMITED 1999-11-02 → 2000-02-09
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Regulatory Audit
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“No material uncertainties that cast significant doubt about the ability of the company to continue as a going concern have been identified by the directors.”
Significant events
- “There have been no significant events affecting the Company since the year end.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 3 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WATSON, Hamish Murray | Secretary | 1999-11-04 | — | British |
| SALKELD, Anna Louise | Director | 2024-02-08 | Nov 1976 | British |
| SALKELD, James Alexander Graham | Director | 2024-02-08 | Aug 1975 | British |
| STARK, Tracy Jayne | Director | 2024-02-08 | Sep 1968 | British |
| WATSON, Hamish Murray | Director | 1999-11-04 | Apr 1945 | British |
| WATSON, Susan Diana | Director | 1999-11-04 | Mar 1949 | British |
| WATSON, Toby Clive Sutherland | Director | 2021-03-15 | Jul 1972 | British |
Show 3 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATKINS, Margaret Mary | Nominee Secretary | 1999-11-02 | 1999-11-04 |
| MCCOLLUM, Angela Jean | Nominee Director | 1999-11-02 | 1999-11-04 |
| SALKELD, James Alexander Graham | Director | 2016-01-02 | 2016-10-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Anna Louise Salkeld | Individual | Significant influence | 2024-10-29 | Active |
| Mr Toby Clive Sutherland Watson | Individual | Significant influence | 2024-10-28 | Active |
| Mrs Susan Diana Watson | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2024-10-29 |
| Mr Hamish Murray Watson | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2024-10-28 |
| Town And Country Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 80 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-25 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-25 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-25 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-13 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-13 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-10-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
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.