TRAILFINDERS GROUP LIMITED
Trailfinders Group Limited acts as a non-trading holding company for Trailfinders, an independently owned British travel agency specialising in tailor-made worldwide holidays.
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Cash
£273m
-7.8% vs 2025
Net assets
£505m
+15.4% highest in 3 filed years
Employees
1,140
+3% highest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£104m
+78.6% highest in 3 filed years
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2026-02-28
| Metric | Trend | 2024-02-29 | 2025-02-28 | 2026-02-28 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,079,418,000 | £1,097,155,000 | £1,281,024,000 | +16.8% | |
| Operating profit | £67,601,000 | £27,535,000 | £76,995,000 | +179.6% | |
| Profit before tax | £90,462,000 | £58,153,000 | £103,850,000 | +78.6% | |
| Net profit | £68,631,000 | £45,433,000 | £79,473,000 | +74.9% | |
| Cash | £255,856,000 | £296,307,000 | £273,289,000 | -7.8% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £398,817,000 | £446,563,000 | £513,790,000 | +15.1% | |
| Net assets | £394,413,000 | £437,493,000 | £504,681,000 | +15.4% | |
| Equity | £394,413,000 | £437,493,000 | £504,681,000 | +15.4% | |
| Average employees | 1,053 | 1,107 | 1,140 | +3% | |
| Wages | £61,538,000 | £87,425,000 | £88,259,000 | +1% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £10,104,000 | £20,545,000 | £7,559,000 | -63.2% |
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 | 2024-02-29 | 2025-02-28 | 2026-02-28 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 6.3% | 2.5% | 6.0% | |
| Net margin | 6.4% | 4.1% | 6.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 17.0% | 6.2% | 15.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 48.4% | 49.0% | — | |
| Current ratio | 1.76x | 1.65x | 1.59x |
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
- Xeinadin Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties related to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Group's or the Parent Company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- TRAILFINDERS GROUP LIMITED · parent
- Trailfinders Limited 100%
- W8 Catering Limited 100%
- Trailfinders Ireland Limited 100%
- Trailfinders Pty Limited 100%
- Trailfinders (Australia) Pty Limited 100%
- Hinterland Aero Engineering Pty Limited 100%
- Bloomfield Wilderness Lodge Pty Limited 100%
- Mount Louis Grazing Pty Limited 100%
- Trailfinders (Services) Limited 100%
- Trailrovers Limited 100%
Significant events
- “An amount has been included for the disruption caused by the conflict in the Middle East, the first day of which fell into the 2025/26 financial year”
- “The US-Iran conflict has caused disruption to the business This was initially due to closed airspace across the Middle East and the mass flight cancellations by airline partners such as Emirates, Etihad, Qatar Airways and Gulf Air Latterly the disruption has continued due to the FCDO Advice against all but essential travel to the UAE, Qatar and Bahrain.”
- “We opened a new retail Travel Centre in Kingston-Upon-Thames to better serve our clients, taking us to 44 UK Travel Centres, with most enjoying freehold status. We also moved our London West End Travel Centre to an improved location”
- “During the year the group continued to invest in Research and Development activities Major projects include a scalable, supplier-agnostic integration framework to automate the creation of complex travel plans by normalising data from disparate global suppliers who use incompatible legacy technologies, a project creating a hybrid Al platform that integrates voice-to-text transcription with legacy data allowing for automated large-scale performance analysis, and engineering of a unified middleware framework to enhance airfares and servicing requirements on the New Distribution Capability (NDC) platforms”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O'DOWD, John Christopher | Secretary | 2025-08-26 | — | — |
| GOOLEY, Michael David William, Sir | Director | 2001-12-19 | Oct 1936 | British |
| LEE, Edwin Robert | Director | 2002-01-02 | Aug 1949 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BANNISTER, Mark | Secretary | 2001-12-19 | 2018-09-20 |
| COMBER, Lawrence David | Secretary | 2019-03-01 | 2025-08-26 |
| MARECHAL, Elodie Deborah | Secretary | 2018-09-20 | 2019-02-28 |
| HALLMARK SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2001-12-19 | 2001-12-19 |
| BANNISTER, Mark | Director | 2001-12-19 | 2018-09-20 |
| RUSSELL, Anthony Martin | Director | 2001-12-19 | 2018-12-31 |
| HALLMARK REGISTRARS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2001-12-19 | 2001-12-19 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Michael David William Gooley | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 85 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-07-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-08-26 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-26 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-07-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-07-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-07-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-07-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-09-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-07-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-07-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-07-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-07-17 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2020-07-17 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2019-07-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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.